Peter Van Nuffelen

Peter Van Nuffelen (born September 17, 1976 ) is a Belgian ancient historian .

Life

After studying ancient history at the KU Leuven (1998) and philosophy at the Université catholique de Louvain (1999) , he completed his doctorate at the KU Leuven with a dissertation on the church history of Socrates Scholastikos and Sozomenos . He then moved to the University of Exeter , first as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (2004 to 2007), then as a lecturer in Ancient History (2007–2009). In 2009 he took up a position as research professor at Ghent University . In 2011 he was a prizewinner of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten in the humanities section. In 2012 he was awarded the Prix ​​Franz Cumont by the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique . In addition to his research stays in Oxford , Heidelberg , Geneva and Bonn , he was Directeur d'études invité at the École pratique des hautes études (2013), as a Fellow in Residence at the Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study (2012-2013) as Professeur Invité at the Université d'Angers (2011) and Margo Tytus Summer Fellow at the University of Cincinnati (2009).

Van Nuffelen's research focuses on the history, historiography and literature of late antiquity (300–900 AD), the interface between religion and philosophy in antiquity , the methodology and theory of ancient history, and the reception of antiquity .

Fonts (selection)

• Un héritage de paix et de piété. Étude sur les Histoires ecclésiastiques de Socrate et de Sozomène . Leuven 2004, ISBN 90-429-1541-2 .
• Rethinking the Gods. Philosophical Readings of Religion in the Post-Hellenistic Period . Cambridge 2011, ISBN 978-1-107-01203-5 .
• Orosius and the Rhetoric of History . Oxford 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-965527-4 .
• as editor: Penser la tolérance durant l'Antiquité tardive . Paris 2018, ISBN 978-2-204-12648-9 .

Web links

• Peter Van Nuffelen - MEPIHLA