Marietta Horster

Marietta Horster (born June 8, 1961 in Düsseldorf ) is a German ancient historian .

Marietta Horster studied Ancient History, Latin Studies and Political Science at the Universities of Lausanne , Bonn and Cologne and graduated in 1989 in Cologne with a Magister Artium in Ancient History, Latin Studies and Political Science. From 1990 to 1994 she was a research assistant at Werner Eck's Chair for Ancient History at the University of Cologne. There she received her doctorate in 1995 with a thesis on the subject of investigations into building inscriptions by Roman emperors in the west of the Roman Empire . From 1995 to 2001 Horster taught as a research assistant at the Institute for Classical Studies at the University of Rostock . In the winter of 1998/99 she was a Sterling Dow Fellow at the Center for Epigraphical and Paleographical Studies at Ohio State University in Columbus (Ohio) .

In 2003 she qualified as a professor in Rostock for ancient history. From 2003 she taught as a private lecturer at the University of Rostock. From 2003 to 2006 Horster was a research associate for the Prosopographia Imperii Romani project at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and at the same time a research fellow from the Gerda Henkel Foundation . In the winter semester 2006/07 and summer semester 2007 she represented the chair for Ancient History ( Hartwin Brandt ) at the University of Bamberg , and in the winter semester 2007/08 she was visiting professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In the summer semester of 2008 she was a substitute professor at the University of Hamburg , and in the summer semester of 2009 at the University of Heidelberg . Since April 2010, Marietta Horster has been Professor of Ancient History at the University of Mainz, succeeding Leonhard Schumacher . She has been the head of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum since 2018 .

Her main research interests are the administration of the Roman Empire and its provinces, the organization and functioning of Greek sanctuaries and the imparting of knowledge in ancient literature.

Fonts

• Literary evidence of imperial building activity. A study of building work in cities of the Roman Empire during the Principate (= contributions to antiquity . Vol. 91). Teubner, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-519-07640-3
• Building inscriptions by Roman emperors. Investigations into inscription practice and building activity in cities of the western Roman Empire in the time of the Principate (= Historia Einzelschriften. Vol. 157). Steiner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-515-07951-3 (= At the same time revised and updated version by: Köln, Universität, Dissertation, 1995).
• with Christiane Reitz (Ed.) Antique specialist writers. Literary discourse and social context (= Palingenesia . Vol. 80). Steiner, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-08243-3 .
• Land ownership of Greek sanctuaries in archaic and classical times (= attempts at religious history and preliminary work . Vol. 53). de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-11-018219-X (= partially at the same time: Rostock, University, habilitation paper, 2003). ( Review )
• with Christiane Reitz (Ed.): Knowledge transfer in poetic form (= Palingenesia . Vol. 85). Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08698-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Marietta Horster in the catalog of the German National Library
• Site by Marietta Horster at the University of Mainz

Remarks

1. ^ Staff of the CIL. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on December 17, 2018.