Jorit Wintjes

Jorit Wintjes (* 1974 in Fulda ) is a German ancient historian .

Live and act

From 1993 to 2000 he studied Greek, Latin and history in Würzburg , where he received his master's degree in modern history in 1998 with the master's thesis Alexis' de Tocqueville's' Souvenirs' as a source of his aristocratic self- image. In 2000 he passed the state examination in Greek and Latin and in 2003 he received his doctorate with the dissertation The Life of Libanius . From 2001 to 2004 he was a lecturer and from 2005 to 2008 research assistant at the Chair of Ancient History at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . Since 2008 he has been an academic councilor there . In 2011/2012 he represented the Chair for Ancient History at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg. Since his habilitation in 2013 with the habilitation thesis ἔξω τῆς ἐγνωσμένης - On the history of the Roman naval war in northwestern Europe , Wintjes has been a private lecturer . In 2020 he was appointed Associate Professor at the Chair of Ancient History.

His main research interests are the Greek rhetoric of the imperial era and late antiquity, ancient military history (especially naval history) and reception history.

Fonts (selection)

• The life of Libanius (= historical studies of the University of Würzburg. Volume 2). Leidorf, Rahden 2005, ISBN 3-89646-834-0 (also dissertation, Würzburg 2003).
• with Konrad Goehl : onion juice against epilepsy. Claudius Galenus treats an epileptic boy. Galen's writing Pro puero epileptico consilium (= DWV writings on the history of medicine . Volume 11). Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag, Baden-Baden 2010, ISBN 978-3-86888-025-0 .
• with Konrad Goehl: The “Ecloga” of Theodulus (= DWV writings for research into the Middle Ages. Volume 1). Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag, Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-86888-052-6 .
• with Annick Payne : Lords of Asia Minor. An introduction to the Lydians (= Philippika. Volume 93). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-86888-052-6 .
• The Prussian War Game (= GIDS Analysis. Volume 3). Budrich UniPress, Berlin / Opladen / Toronto 2019, ISBN 978-3-96665-000-7 .
• The Roman Army on the Oceanus. On the history of the Roman naval war in north-western Europe (= Mnemosyne . Supplement 433). Brill, Leiden / Boston 2020, ISBN 978-90-04-41441-9 .

Web links

• Jorit Wintjes on the website of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg
• Jorit Wintjes on academia.edu

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wintjes - Institute for History. Retrieved March 17, 2020 .