Johannes Engels

This article deals with the historian Johannes Engels. For other people see Johannes Engel .

Johannes Engels (born September 18, 1959 in Düren ) is a German ancient historian .

Between 1978 and 1984 Johannes Engels studied history, Latin , Greek , Byzantine and educational science at the University of Cologne . In 1983 and 1984 he passed the first and second state examinations in history, ancient Greek and educational science. During this time he received a scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation . Another state examination for Latin followed in 1986. From 1986 to 1989 Engels worked as a research assistant in the Department of Ancient History at the University of Münster . In 1987 he received his doctorate in Cologne, the title of the dissertation was Studies on the Political Biography of Hypereides: Athens in the Epoch of the Lycurgian Reforms and the Macedonian Universal Empire . Since 1989 Engels worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Classical Studies at the University of Cologne. In 1992 he was a lecturer as part of the Erasmus program at the University of Leuven .

During the winter semester 1995/96 Engels completed his habilitation in Cologne for ancient history with the habilitation thesis Augusteische Oikumengeographie and Universalhistorie in Strabon's work by Amaseia . Then he was a lecturer in Cologne, 1996/97 additionally in Münster, 1997 again Erasmus lecturer in Leuven. In the 1997 summer semester he taught as a deputy professor at the University of Greifswald , in 1997 and 1998 for two semesters at the University of Trier , and in 1999/2000 for two semesters at the University of Munich . In 2000 he became a private lecturer in Cologne. In 2001/02 he taught as an academic adviser at the University of Tübingen . In 2002 Engels was appointed adjunct professor in Cologne. He was also a temporary lecturer at the University of Leipzig , the RWTH Aachen and the University of Wuppertal . In 2012/13 he was the chair of ancient history at the University of Kassel . From 2014 to 2018 he held a temporary senior council position at the University of Bonn , and since then has been back as an adjunct professor at the University of Cologne.

In the sequel to Felix Jacoby The Fragments of the Greek Historians , Engels contributed in 1998 the works on Stesimbrotos of Thasos , Antisthenes of Athens , Phainias of Eresus and Philiskos of Miletus . Engels is also involved in Brill's New Jacoby .

Fonts

• Studies on the political biography of Hypereides. Athens in the era of the Lycurgian reforms and the Macedonian universal empire , (sources and research on the ancient world, volume 2), Munich 1989; expanded and revised second edition Munich 1993, ISBN 3-88073-487-9 (= dissertation)
• "Funerum sepulcrorumque magnificentia". Burial and grave luxury laws of the Greco-Roman world with outlooks on the Christian Middle Ages and the modern age , ( Hermes -E single script 78) Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-07236-5
• Augustan oicumen geography and universal history in Strabon's work by Amaseia (Geographica Historica, vol. 12), Steiner-Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-515-07459-7
• Philip II and Alexander the Great , (compact history - antiquity) Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 3-534-15590-4

Web links

• Literature by and about Johannes Engels in the catalog of the German National Library
• Lecturer page on the website of the University of Cologne

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae at the University of Cologne Retrieved on October 17, 2019.