Klaus Martin Girardet

Klaus Martin Girardet (born October 18, 1940 in Koblenz ) is a German ancient historian .

After completing a commercial apprenticeship, Girardet graduated from secondary school in 1966. He then studied history and Protestant theology at the University of Bonn . After completing his master's degree in 1969, he received his doctorate in 1972 with a thesis on the Imperial Court and the Bishop's Court and was then a research assistant at the University of Trier until 1980, interrupted by a two-year habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation , where he completed his habilitation in 1979 on Ciceros De legibus . In 1980 he received a professorship for Ancient History at the Saarland University as successor to Werner Eck . From 2000 to 2004 he was dean of the Philosophical Faculty I, from 2002 to 2005 a member of the university council. In 2006 Girardet retired.

Girardet has been a full member of the Accademia Storico-Romanistica Costantiniana in Perugia since 1994 . Since 1996 he has been a full member of the German Archaeological Institute and until 2006 of its commission for ancient history and epigraphy . Girardet is mainly concerned with the history of the Roman Republic and the early Principate , as well as with late antiquity and especially with Christianity in the first centuries and the religious policy of Constantine the Elder. Size Another area of ​​interest is the importance of ancient history for the present.

Fonts

• Imperial Court and Bishop's Court. Studies on the beginnings of the Donatist controversy (313-315) and on the trial of Athanasius of Alexandria (328-346) (= Antiquitas . Series 1, Treatises on ancient history, vol. 21). Habelt, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1274-2 .
• The order of the world. A contribution to the philosophical and political interpretation of Cicero's De legibus (= Historia individual writings . Issue 42). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-515-03687-3 .
• The ancient history of Europeans and the Europe of the future. Traditions - Values ​​- Perspectives at the beginning of the 3rd millennium . ASKO-Europa-Stiftung, Saarbrücken 2001, ISBN 3-930714-72-8 .
• Human rights and European identity. The ancient foundations. (Together with Ulrich Nortmann ). Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08637-4 .
• The Constantinian Turn. Prerequisites and spiritual foundations of the religious policy of Constantine the Great . 2nd edition. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2007, ISBN 3-534-19116-1 .
• Rome on the way from republic to principate. Habelt, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-7749-3468-9 .
• Empire, religious policy and the law of state and church in late antiquity . Habelt, Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-7749-3469-6 .
• The emperor and his god. Christianity in thought and in the religious policy of Constantine the Great . De Gruyter, Berlin-New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-022788-8 .
• Constantine, Address to the Assembly of Saints - Oratio ad sanctorum coetum. Introduction, Greek text, translation, commentary. Freiburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-451-30957-1
• Studies on the ancient history of the Europeans . Habelt, Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7749-3987-5 .
• January 49 BC Chr .: Caesar's military coup. Prehistory, legal situation, political aspects . Habelt, Bonn 2017, ISBN 978-3-7749-4068-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Martin Girardet in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page at Saarland University

Individual evidence

1. ^ Accademia Storico-Romanistica Costantiniana