Konrad Vössing
Konrad Vössing (born November 23, 1959 in Berlin ) is a German ancient historian .
Konrad Vössing studied history and classical philology at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Bordeaux . He received his doctorate in 1991 at the Technical University of Aachen under Hartmut Galsterer with a thesis on the subject of studies on the Roman school, education, schooling in North Africa during the imperial era . Vössing was a research assistant in Berlin, Aachen and at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf ; Vössing completed his habilitation there in 2001 with the thesis Mensa regia. The banquet with the Hellenistic king and the Roman emperor . In 2005 he was appointed full professor of ancient history at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 2010 he was awarded the Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize . In 2012 he was accepted into the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts .
Vössing's main research interests are the ancient cultural history (in particular the educational system, the dining and banquet culture as well as costume and habitus), social history (forms of representation, client relationships), the history of Roman North Africa and the history of the vandals . Vössing is one of the few German ancient historians who have dealt with Roman Africa. In 1997 he published the illustration School and Education in North Africa during the Roman Empire on this topic . He provided a translation and commentary to Victor of Vita's story of the persecution in Africa. It is one of the most important sources for the first century of Vandal rule in North Africa. In 2014 he published an overview of the Vandal Empire. The intended aim of his work is to "present the establishment and characteristics of the regnum Vandalorum in the context of the history of the late Roman Empire, the African provincial area and the 'barbaric' conquests".
Fonts (selection)
Source editions and monographs
- School and education in North Africa during the Roman Empire (= Collection Latomus . Volume 38). Latomus, Brussels 1997, ISBN 2-87031-178-8 (also: Aachen, Technische Hochschule, dissertation, 1991).
- Cafeteria regia. The banquet with the Hellenistic king and the Roman emperor (= contributions to antiquity. Volume 193). Saur, Munich et al. 2004, ISBN 3-598-77805-8 .
- Victor von Vita: Vandals and Church Struggle in Africa , edited, introduced and translated by Konrad Vössing. WBG, Darmstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-534-23209-3 .
- The Kingdom of the Vandals. Geiseric's rule and the Roman Empire. Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3-8053-4761-7 .
Editorships
- Biography and prosopography. International colloquium on the 65th birthday of Anthony R. Birley, September 28, 2002, Mickeln Castle, Düsseldorf. (= Historia. Individual writings . Issue 178). Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08538-6 .
- The Roman banquet as reflected in ancient studies. International Colloquium 5./6. October 2005, Mickeln Castle, Düsseldorf. Steiner, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-515-09235-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Konrad Vössing in the catalog of the German National Library
- Konrad Vössing at the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Konrad Vössing's page at the University of Bonn
Remarks
- ↑ Konrad Vössing: The Kingdom of the Vandals. Geiseric's rule and the Roman Empire. Darmstadt 2014, p. 8.
First chair: Arnold Dietrich Schaefer (1865–1883) | Heinrich Nissen (1884–1911) | Ulrich Wilcken (1912–1915) | Conrad Cichorius (1916–1928) | Friedrich Oertel (1929–1952) | Johannes Straub (1953–1982) | Klaus Rosen (1982–2002) | Winfried Schmitz (since 2003)
Second chair: Hatto H. Schmitt (1965–1978) | Gerhard Wirth (1979–1991) | Hartmut Galsterer (1992-2004) | Konrad Vössing (since 2005)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vössing, Konrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ancient historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 23, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |