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Peter Franz Mittag (born March 23, 1966 in Eschwege ) is a German ancient historian and numismatist .

From 1989 to 1993, Mittag studied Ancient History, Classical Archeology and Law at the University of Freiburg . From 1993 to 1996 he was a member of the Graduate School “Reference to the Past of Ancient Presents” and on July 5, 1996, with a thesis entitled Old Heads in New Hands. Author and function of the accountants . Attempting a Historical Interpretation PhD .

He then worked as a numismatic assistant between 1996 and 1997 at the Roman-Germanic Museum in Cologne. 1997 to 1998 the German Research Foundation granted him a postdoctoral fellowship for the historical interpretation of Roman medallions. He returned to the University of Freiburg as a research assistant in 1998 and worked again at the Department of Ancient History there, where he stayed until 2004. During this time he was also a visiting professor at the Eskiçag dilleri ve külle kühltürleri bölümü at the Akdeniz Üniversitesi in Antalya . In the summer semester 2004, he was with a thesis on the politics of Antiochus IV. Epiphanes habilitation . In the following year he was a Heisenberg scholarship holder and held a professorship for Ancient History at the University of Cologne (previously Michael Zahrnt ). Since December 1, 2005, he has held a W2 professorship for Ancient History at the University of Cologne .

Mittag is currently researching the local elites in Hellenism and is undertaking an attempt to reconstruct the history of Bactria, which is funded by the German Research Foundation .

Fonts

• Old heads in new hands. Originator and function of the Kontorniaten (= Antiquitas . Series 3: Treatises on prehistory and early history, on classical and provincial Roman archeology and on the history of antiquity. Vol. 38). Habelt, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-7749-2885-1 (also: Freiburg (Breisgau), University, dissertation, 1996).
• Antiochus IV. Epiphanes. A political biography (= Klio . Supplements NF Vol. 11). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-05-004205-2 (Also: Freiburg (Breisgau), University, habilitation paper, 2004).
• Roman medallions. Caesar to Hadrian. Steiner, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-515-09699-7 .
• Greek numismatics. An introduction. Verlag Antike, Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-938032-85-5 .
• Roman medallions. Antoninus Pius. Steiner, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-515-12429-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Franz Mittag in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage at the Historical Institute of the University of Cologne