Klaus Geus

Klaus Geus (born June 30, 1962 in Oberhaid ; pseudonym: Nessun Saprà ) is a German ancient historian .

Life

Klaus Geus studied history, Latin and Greek at the University of Bamberg and the University of Trier ; his teachers included Werner Huss , Klaus Döring and Rudolf Rieks . In 1991 he was in Bamberg with the dissertation prosopography the literary testified Carthaginians doctorate . From 1995 to 2002 he was an assistant at the University of Bamberg. In 2001 he completed his habilitation with the work Eratosthenes of Cyrene: Studies on the Hellenistic Cultural and Scientific History , in which he designed the first overall picture of the polymath, librarian and prince educator Eratosthenes (276–194 BC).

In 2004 Geus founded the science publisher "Utopica". The “Bibliotheca Classicorum” series appears there, in which Greek and Latin texts are published with translation and commentary.

His main research areas are the ancient history of culture and science, especially geography, astronomy, mathematics and metrology, as well as the history of reception, military history (especially Polyainos ) and the history of ancient North Africa. As a research fellow from the Gerda Henkel Foundation , he worked on a star map for the land registry of Eratosthenes.

He was a lecturer at the universities of Tübingen , Jena and Mannheim. In 2008/2009 he represented the professorship for Ancient History at the University of Mannheim . Since April 2009 he has been professor for historical geography of the ancient Mediterranean at the Free University of Berlin .

Publications

As an author

• Prosopography of the literarily attested Carthaginians , Leuven 1994.
• Utopia and geography: On the worldview of the Greeks in the early Hellenistic period , in: Orbis Terrarum 6, 2000, 55–90.
• Eratosthenes of Cyrene: Studies on the Hellenistic cultural and scientific history , Munich 2002 (Munich contributions to papyrus research and ancient legal history, vol. 92).
• Space and Geography , in: A Companion to the Hellenistic Culture , ed. from. Andrew Erskine, Malden et al. [Blackwell] 2003, pp. 232–245.
• "Nemo geometriae ignatus intrato": Three assumptions about Arno Schmidt's knowledge of Latin and Greek , in: Zettelkasten. Yearbook of the Society of Arno Schmidt Readers 23, 2004, 143–156.
• with Thomas Beck: Catechism of History: A Textbook in 100 Questions and Answers , 2nd edition, Oberhaid 2005. ISBN 3-938083-03-4
• as Nessun Saprà: Lexicon of German Science Fiction and Fantasy 1870-1918 , Oberhaid 2005.
• Africa , in: Klaudios Ptolemaios: Handbook of Geography ; Greek-German. Edited by Alfred Stückelberger and Gerd Graßhoff, Basel 2006, 380–471.
• Ptolemy looking over the shoulder - on his method of working in Geographike Hyphegesis , in: Perception and recording of geographical spaces in antiquity , ed. v. Michael Rathmann , Mainz 2007, 159–166. ISBN 978-3-8053-3749-6

As editor

• with Klaus Zimmermann : Punica - Libyca - Ptolemaica: Festschrift for Werner Huß , Leuven et al. 2001.
• with Jordi Pàmias: Eratosthenes: Sternsagen (Catasterismi) ; Greek – German; edited, translated and commented on, Oberhaid 2007. ISBN 978-3-938083-05-5 Review by "Bryn Mawr Classical Review"
• with Katrin Herrmann: Dona sunt pulcherrima: Festschrift for Rudolf Rieks , Oberhaid 2008. ISBN 978-3-938083-12-3
• Remmius Favinus: Poem on units of weight and measurement: Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris ; Latin-German; edited, translated and commented, Oberhaid 2007. ( ISBN 978-3-938083-07-9 ) Review by H-Soz-u-Kult (PDF; 67 kB)
• Utopias, visions of the future, thought experiments , Frankfurt a. M. 2011.

Web links

• Page from Klaus Geus at the FU Berlin
• Website by Klaus Geus
• Publications by Klaus Geus on Academia.edu
• Klaus Geus in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)