Peter Eich (ancient historian)

Peter Eich (born January 6, 1970 in Cologne ) is a German ancient historian .

Peter Eich has been studying history and Latin at the University of Cologne since the winter semester 1989/90 and passed the first state examination in November 1995. From 1997 to 2007 he was a research assistant at the University of Cologne. In 2002, Eich received his doctorate from Werner Eck in Cologne . In 2007 he completed his habilitation in Cologne; in the same year he was appointed junior professor for “Ancient Culture” at the University of Potsdam . Eich has been Professor of Ancient History with a focus on Roman History and Historical Anthropology at the University of Freiburg since the 2010/11 winter semester . In 2016, he turned down an offer at the University of Potsdam for a W3 professorship in ancient history.

Eich, he has been co-editor of the ancient science journal Gnomon since 2017 . He has also been a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 2018 . His research focuses on social and administrative history, in particular the Roman Empire and late antiquity. His older brother Armin Eich is also an ancient historian.

Fonts

Monographs

• On the metamorphosis of the political system in the Roman Empire. The emergence of a “personal bureaucracy” in the long third century (= Klio supplements. New episode 9). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-05-004110-2 (complete at the same time: Cologne, University, Dissertation, 2001–2002).
• Image of God and perception. Studies on ambivalences early Greek gods representations (800 v. Chr.-ca. c. 400 BC.) (= Potsdamer ancient scientific contributions . Vol. 34). Steiner, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 3-515-09855-0 .
• Gregory the Great. Bishop of Rome between antiquity and the Middle Ages. Schöningh, Paderborn 2016, ISBN 3-506-78370-X .
• with Armin Eich and Werner Eck : The inscriptions of Sagalassos. Volume 1 (= The inscriptions of Greek cities from Asia Minor . Volume 70). Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 2018, ISBN 978-3-7749-4122-9 .

Editorships

• with Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner , Christian Wieland: The recurring Leviathan. Statehood and becoming a state in late antiquity and early modern times (= Academy Conferences, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. Vol. 4). Winter, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 3-8253-5667-1 .
• with Eike Faber: Religious everyday life in late antiquity (= Potsdam antiquity contributions. Vol. 44). Steiner, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-515-10442-5 .

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. 2009. Volume 1, Saur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23629-7 , p. 822.
• Peter Eich: Inaugural address of October 26, 2018. In: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences for 2018. Heidelberg 2019, pp. 163–165 ( online ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Eich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page by Peter Eich at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg