Kai Trampedach

Kai Trampedach (born November 23, 1962 in Hanover ) is a German ancient historian .

Kai Trampedach studied history and philosophy as well as Greek philology at the University of Würzburg and the Free University of Berlin . In 1993 he received his doctorate at the University of Freiburg in ancient history and philosophy with the thesis Plato, the academy and contemporary politics under Hans-Joachim Gehrke . This was followed by stays in Cyprus, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Greece and Italy, which were made possible by a travel grant from the DAI. From 1997 to 2003 Trampedach was Wolfgang Schuller's research assistant at the Chair of Ancient History at the University of Konstanz . In 2001/2 he was a Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University in Washington, DC.

In 2003 he was in Konstanz with the work Politische Mantik. Studies on communication about signs of gods and oracles in classical Greece ; from 2004 he taught as a university lecturer in Konstanz. Trampedach has held the Chair of Greek History at Heidelberg University since October 2007 .

Fonts

Monographs

• Plato, the Academy and contemporary politics (= Hermes . Individual writings. H. 66). Steiner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-515-06453-2 (At the same time: Dissertation, University of Freiburg (Breisgau), 1992/1993).
• Political mantic. Communication about signs of gods and oracles in classical Greece (= studies on ancient history. Vol. 21). Verlag Antike, Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-938032-78-7 (revised version of the habilitation paper, University of Konstanz 2003).

Editorships

• with Andreas Pečar : The Bible as a political argument. Prerequisites and consequences of biblical power legitimation in the premodern era (= historical journal . Supplement. NF 43). Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-64443-2 .
• with Beate Dignas: Practitioners of the Divine. Greek Priests and Religious Officials from Homer to Heliodorus (= Hellenic Studies. 30). Harvard University Press et al., Cambridge MA et al. 2008, ISBN 978-0-674-02787-9 .
• with Andreas Pečar: Theocracy and theocratic discourse. The talk of the rule of God and its political-social effects in an intercultural comparison (= Colloquia historica et theologica. 1). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-16-151987-1
• with Nicolas Zenzen and Tonio Hölscher : appropriation and demarcation. Changing perspectives on the antithesis of 'east' and 'west' in ancient Greece. Verlag Antike, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-938032-52-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Kai Trampedach in the catalog of the German National Library
• Side of Trampedach at Heidelberg University