Oliver Stoll (ancient historian)

Oliver Stoll (* 1964 in Worms ) is a German ancient historian .

Oliver Stoll passed his Abitur at the Gauß-Gymnasium Worms in 1982 . Military service followed in 1983/84. In 1984 Stoll began studying Classical Archeology , Ancient History and Prehistory and Early History as well as Provincial Roman Archeology at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg . The doctorate took place in Mainz in 1992, the subject of the dissertation was the sculptural equipment of Roman military installations on the Rhine and Danube. The Upper German-Rhaetian Limes . Since 1991 and after completing his doctorate, Stoll worked for a publishing house and was a volunteer. In 1992 he became a research assistant at the Institute for Agricultural and Economic History at the University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim . In 1995 he moved to the Institute for Ancient History at the University of Mainz, where in 1997 he became a research assistant in the A 3 ancient history sub-project of the Mainz Collaborative Research Center 295 Linguistic and Cultural Contacts . He worked there until 2002 and completed his habilitation in 2001 with the thesis Between Integration and Demarcation. The religion of the Roman army in the Middle East. Studies on the relationship between the army and civilian population in Roman Syria and neighboring areas . From 2003 to 2006 Stoll was a fellow of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz. For a short time, in 2007, Stoll worked at the Chair of Ancient History at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg and received a grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation . In the same year he was offered a professorship in ancient history at the University of Passau , where he has been teaching since then. In 2013, Stoll turned down a professorship for Ancient History at the University of Siegen .

Stoll is primarily concerned with ancient military history, technological, social and economic history, and the cultural history of antiquity. The history of religion, the history of the Roman provinces and the ancient specialist literature are also among his research topics.

Fonts (selection)

• The sculptural equipment of Roman military installations on the Rhine and Danube. The Upper German-Rhaetian Limes (= Pharos. Vol. 1). 2 volumes (text and catalog). Scripta-Mercaturae, St. Katharinen 1992, ISBN 3-928134-49-3 (dissertation University Mainz 1992).
• as editor: Computer and Archeology. Selected contributions to project-related application, to experiences and perspectives in dealing with EDP in the field of archaeological sciences (= computers and antiquity. Vol. 3). Scripta-Mercaturae, St. Katharinen 1994, ISBN 3-928134-85-X .
• Excubatio ad signa. The guard by the flags in the Roman army and other contributions to the cultural, historical and historical significance of a military symbol. Scripta-Mercaturae, St. Katharinen 1995, ISBN 3-89590-009-5 .
• Roman army and society. Collected articles 1991–1999 (= Mavors. Vol. 13). Steiner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-515-07817-7 .
• Between integration and demarcation. The religion of the Roman army in the Middle East. Studies on the relationship between the army and civilian population in Roman Syria and the neighboring areas (= Mainzer ancient historical studies. Vol. 3). Scripta-Mercaturae, St. Katharinen 2001, ISBN 3-89590-116-4 (Habilitation University Mainz, 2000/2001).
• with Leonhard Schumacher (ed.): Language and culture in the imperial province of Arabia. Ancient historical contributions to the research of acculturation phenomena in the Roman Middle East (= Mainz ancient historical studies. Vol. 4). Scripta-Mercaturae-Verlag, St. Katharinen 2003, ISBN 3-89590-140-7 .
• To the glory of Athens. Knowledge for the good of the polis. Xenophon's ideal of a leader and Athens cavalry in Hipparchikos "Logos" (= ancient studies, archeology. Vol. 3). Frank & Timme, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86596-314-7 .
• Honorable men. Veterans in the Imperial Roman Middle East. A study of the economic, social and cultural history of the Middle Eastern provinces on the basis of papyrological and epigraphic sources (= ancient studies, archeology. Vol. 5). Frank & Timme, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-7329-0175-3 .
• with Lena Meier (Ed.): Defeats and consequences of war - Vae Victis or Vae Victoribus? From the ancient Orient to the European Middle Ages. Historical and cultural-historical contributions to a Passau workshop, October 4th to 6th, 2015. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2016 , ISBN 978-3-7329-0274-3 .
• Vestigia Cladis - Rome's Handling of Military Failures. Suppressing defeats, emphasizing victories, showing resilience . Frank & Timme, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-7329-9599-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Oliver Stoll in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Stoll at the University of Passau