Maria H. Dettenhofer

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Maria H. Dettenhofer (born July 21, 1960 in Münchberg ; † October 2, 2016 ) was a German ancient historian .

Life

Maria H. Dettenhofer studied English and History at the University of Munich (LMU) from 1979 to 1985 . In 1985 she passed the first state examination in the subjects of English, history, psychology and pedagogy for teaching at grammar schools. A year later, he graduated with a Magister Artium in Ancient History, Modern History and English Linguistics. From 1987 to 1990 she was a graduate scholarship holder of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation . In 1990 Dettenhofer was born in Munich with the highly acclaimed work Perdita iuventus. Doctorate between the generations of Caesar and Augustus . Christian Meier was the supervisor and first reviewer . This was followed by a position as a research assistant at the Institute for Ancient History at LMU until 1992. She then received a postdoctoral fellowship from the DFG and a research fellowship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation until 1996 . 1997 habilitation they are in Munich on domination and resistance in the Augustan principate. The competition between Res publica and domus Augusta . After some time as a private lecturer, Dettenhofer became an adjunct professor in Munich in 2004. In the 2004 summer semester she was also visiting professor for gender studies at Saarland University in Saarbrücken . Since the winter semester of 2008/09 she has been teaching as a research assistant at the University of Erlangen . In addition, she was a visiting scholar at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology in the winter semester 2008/09 with the project European and Chinese Antiquity in Comparison .

The focus of Dettenhofer's work was Roman history, especially the Republic and the Principate . In the area of ​​Greek history, Dettenhofer dealt with Sparta as well as with social models and constitutional utopias of the classical and the Hellenistic epoch. In addition, there was an interest in ancient social history with a special focus on gender history. In addition, Dettenhofer initiated an interdisciplinary project on intercultural studies on European and Chinese antiquity, which she carried out in China for the first time in 2002 in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Hong Kong . Numerous engagements in China followed. In addition, she worked for the Second German Television and Deutschlandfunk and until June 2008 was the specialist editor for the area of ​​ancient history (19th / 20th centuries) for the supplementary volume "Lexicon of Scholars and Scientists of Classical Classical Studies (14th – 20th centuries) ) “ Of the new Pauly .

As a previous scholarship holder, Dettenhofer was a member of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation's examination board .

Fonts

Monographs

  • Perdita iuventus. Between the generations of Caesar and Augustus (= Vestigia . Volume 44). Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-35856-X . (Partly at the same time: Munich, University, dissertation, 1990)
  • Rule and resistance in the Augustan principate. The competition between Res publica and domus Augusta (= Historia. Individual writings . Volume 140). Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07639-5 .

Essays

  • A new chance for grassroots democracy ?: Food for thought from classical Athens. In: Alexander Siedschlag et al. (Ed.): Electronic democracy and virtual governance. Opladen 2001, ISBN 3-8100-3309-X , pp. 93-102.
  • The electoral reform of Tiberius and its effects. In: Historia. 51, 2002, pp. 349-358.
  • Normal election campaign: The Roman Republic. In: Insights and Perspectives. 2008, pp. 116-129.
  • Eunuchs, Women, and Imperial Courts. In: Walter Scheidel (Ed.): Rome and China. Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires. Oxford 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-971429-2 , pp. 83-99.
  • The Roman Empire and Han Era China. A structural comparison. In: History in Science and Education. 61, 2010, pp. 171-181.
  • Refusal as a form of voting or: from exception to rule. The Senate Quorum from the Middle Republic to the Early Principate. In: Egon Flaig (Ed.): Genesis and Dynamics of Majority Decision. Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-71860-7 , pp. 153-172.

Editorships

  • Purely for men? Women in male domains of the ancient world. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1994, ISBN 3-412-08693-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Dettenhofer, Maria H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Münchberg
DATE OF DEATH October 2nd, 2016