Pedro Barceló

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Pedro Barceló (born April 30, 1950 in Vinaròs , Province of Castellón , Spain ) is a Spanish-German ancient historian .

Pedro Barceló studied at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg im Breisgau , where he received his doctorate in 1980 . From 1979 to 1988 he was a research assistant, since 1982 university assistant, at the Catholic University of Eichstätt , where he completed his habilitation in 1986 . After holding various professorships and visiting professorships, he received a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the University of Augsburg in 1992 , but was appointed professor at the newly founded University of Erfurt that same year . From 1994 to September 2015 he held the chair for Ancient History at the University of Potsdam . His successor was the Italian Filippo Carlà-Uhink .

As a visiting professor, Barceló has taught at the University of South Africa in Pretoria , the University of Valencia , the University of Sofia , the Jaume I University in Castellón and the University of Barcelona . In 1995 he was appointed a corresponding member of the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid. The University of Jaume I awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2006 .

Barceló's main research areas are the history of Carthage and Carthaginian and Roman Hispania as well as Hellenism , the religious history of the Roman Empire, especially the processes of religious change, breaks in tradition and confrontations, in particular the role of Christianity in the old world and the ancient marginal cultures.

Fonts

  • Editor with Gunther Gottlieb : Christians and Heiden in State and Society of the Second to Fourth Century. Thoughts and theses on a difficult relationship . Vögel, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-925355-44-8 .
  • Basic course in history I. Antiquity . Athenaeum, 2nd edition, Weinheim 1994 (= history books ), ISBN 3-7610-7245-7 .
  • Hannibal . CH Beck, Munich 1998 (= Beck's knowledge series ), ISBN 3-406-43292-1 .
  • Hannibal. Strategist and statesman . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-608-94301-3 .
  • Constantius II and his time. The beginnings of the state church . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-608-94046-4 .
  • Little Greek story . Primus Verlag, Darmstadt 2004, ISBN 3-89678-515-X .
  • Little Roman story . 2nd, bibliographically updated edition. Primus Verlag, Darmstadt 2012, ISBN 978-3-5342-5096-7 .
  • Alexander the Great . Scientific Book Society / Primus, Darmstadt 2007, ISBN 3-89678-610-5 .
  • Editor: Religious Fundamentalism in the Roman Empire (= Potsdam Classical Studies (PAwB) , Volume 29). Stuttgart 2010. ISBN 978-3-515-09444-3 .
  • The Roman Empire in the Religious Change of Late Antiquity. Emperor and bishops in conflict . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7917-2529-1 .
  • The old world. About land and sea, domination and war, myth, cult and redemption. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2019, ISBN 978-3-8053-5186-7 .

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SURNAME Barceló, Pedro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish-German ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Vinaròs