Peter Kneißl

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Peter Kneißl (born January 12, 1938 in Bischofteinitz ) is a German ancient historian .

Peter Kneißl studied history, classical philology and archeology at the University of Marburg . He was there in 1968 with a work supervised by Karl Christ on the subject of The Victory Titulature of the Roman Emperors. Doctoral studies on the winning names of the 1st and 2nd centuries . Kneißl also completed his habilitation there in 1977. From 1981 until his retirement in 2003 he was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oldenburg , successor was Tanja Scheer . His particular research interest is Latin epigraphy .

Fonts

Monographs

  • The victory statute of the Roman emperors. Studies on the winning names of the first and second centuries (= Hypomnemata, Volume 23). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1969 (also dissertation, University of Marburg 1969).
  • The occupational information on the inscriptions of the Gallic and Germanic provinces. Contributions to the economic and social history of the Roman Empire. Habilitation thesis, University of Marburg 1977.

Editorships

  • with Volker Losemann: Ancient History and History of Science. Festschrift for Karl Christ on his 65th birthday. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1988, ISBN 3-534-03564-X .
  • with Volker Losemann: Imperium Romanum. Studies on history and reception. Festschrift for Karl Christ on his 75th birthday. Steiner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-06929-1 .

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