Klaus Zimmermann (ancient historian)

Klaus Zimmermann (born February 8, 1964 in Würzburg ) is a German ancient historian .

Klaus Zimmermann, son of medievalist Gerd Zimmermann , graduated from ETA Hoffmann-Gymnasium Bamberg in 1983 . After completing his military service, Zimmermann began studying at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg in 1985/86 . The Magister followed in 1993. From 1994 to 1998 he was a research assistant at the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy of the German Archaeological Institute in Munich. In 1998 he did his doctorate in Bamberg with Werner Huss with the thesis Libya. The country south of the Mediterranean in the worldview of the Greeks . From 1998 to 2006 he was a research assistant at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . In 2005 he completed his habilitation in ancient history in Jena. From 2006 to 2007 Zimmermann was senior assistant in Jena and from 2007 to 2009 academic adviser. Since October 1, 2009, he has been Elmar Schwertheim's successor professor at the Asia Minor research center in the Ancient History Department at the Westphalian Wilhelms University .

Zimmermann is best known as an expert on Carthage . His current research focuses on the relationship between religion and politics in antiquity, the adoption of social memory by the church and the handling of death and dying in pagan imperial times and late Christian antiquity.

Fonts

• Carthage. The rise and fall of a great power. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-534-22790-7 .
• Rome and Carthage. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-15496-7 , 3rd, reviewed, bibliographically updated edition 2013, ISBN 978-3-534-26025-6 .
• Libya. The country south of the Mediterranean in the Greek worldview (= Vestigia. Vol. 51). Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-44556-X (also: Bamberg, Universität, Dissertation, 1997/98).

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Zimmermann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page at the University of Münster