Klaus Friday

Klaus Freitag (born August 29, 1964 in Dillenburg ) is a German ancient historian .

From 1985 to 1992, Klaus Freitag studied ancient history, political science and modern and contemporary history at the Universities of Siegen and Münster . His doctorate took place in 1997 in Ancient History on the subject of the Corinthian Gulf as an ancient area of ​​life . From 1996 to 1998 Freitag was a research assistant at the Seminar for Ancient History in Münster. He then worked there from 1998 to 2004 as a scientific assistant to Peter Funke . In 2004, Freitag completed his habilitation on the subject of studies on the relationship between cult, sanctuary and politics in the Greek states of the Hellenistic-Roman period . In the same year he was appointed university lecturer at the Seminar for Ancient History in Münster. In January 2009 he accepted the chair for Ancient History at RWTH Aachen University .

His research focus is Greek history from the beginnings to the Roman Empire, in particular the Greek federal states and the historical geography of ancient Greece.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• The Gulf of Corinth. Historical-topographical studies from the Archaic to the 1st century BC Chr (= sources and research on the ancient world. Vol. 34). tuduv-Verl.-Gesellschaft, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-88073-574-3 .

Editorships

• with Peter Funke , Matthias Haake: Cult - Politics - Ethnos. Supraregional sanctuaries in the field of tension between cult and politics (= Historia. Vol. 189). Steiner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-515-08718-4 .
• with Christoph Michels: Athens and / or Alexandreia? Aspects of identity and ethnicity in Hellenistic Greece Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-22255-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Freitag in the catalog of the German National Library
• Klaus Freitag on the website of the Historical Institute of RWTH Aachen