Lothar Wierschowski

Lothar Wierschowski (born October 6, 1952 in Extertal - Bösingfeld ) is a German ancient historian .

Wierschowski studied German and history in Münster and passed the state examination in 1979. In 1983 he received his doctorate from the Technical University of Braunschweig . The topic of the dissertation was army and economy. The Roman army of the Princely Age as an economic factor . He then became an assistant at the University of Oldenburg , where he received his habilitation in 1993 with the thesis The regional mobility in Gaul according to the inscriptions of the 1st to 3rd centuries AD. Quantitative studies on the social and economic history of the western provinces of the Roman Empire . He then became senior assistant at the University of Oldenburg and was later appointed associate professor there in 1995. Wierschowski works in the school service, until mid-2012 he taught Latin and history at the Ritterhude grammar school . Until 2018 he taught at the Cooperative Comprehensive School in Rastede .

Wierschowski's research focuses on Latin epigraphy , Roman economic history and Gallic history.

Fonts

• Army and Economy. The Roman army of the principled age as an economic factor, Habelt, Bonn 1984, ISBN 3-7749-2112-1 ( Habelt's dissertation prints. Series Alte Geschichte, H. 20).
• Regional mobility in Gaul according to the inscriptions from the 1st to 3rd centuries AD.Quantitative studies on the social and economic history of the western provinces of the Roman Empire , Steiner, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-515-06720-5 ( Historia individual writings, H. 91).
• Strangers in Gaul - "Gauls" in a foreign country. The epigraphically attested mobility in, from and to Gaul from the 1st to the 3rd century AD. Texts, translations, comments , Steiner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-515-07970-X (Historia Einzelschriften, H. 159).

literature

• Osnabrück Yearbook. Peace and Science , 4, 1997, p. 6 (authors) PDF .