Reinhard Wolters (ancient historian)

Reinhard Wolters (born March 14, 1958 in Duisburg ) is a German ancient historian and numismatist .

Reinhard Wolters studied history, German, journalism and Catholic theology at the Ruhr University Bochum , the University of Bonn , the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster and the University of Vienna from 1977 to 1983 . From 1983 to 1988, Wolters was a research assistant and lecturer at the Chair of Ancient History at the Ruhr University in Bochum. He received his doctorate in 1987 with the thesis Roman conquest and rulership organization in Gaul and Germania. On the origin and significance of the so-called clientele-fringe states . Wolters was a postdoctoral fellow from the German Research Foundation at the Institute for Numismatics at the University of Vienna in 1988/89 . Then he was from 1989 to 1995 university assistant for ancient history at the Technical University of Braunschweig , where he worked in 1995 with the work Nummi Signati. Researches on Roman coinage and money economy completed his habilitation. In 1995/96 Wolters was a guest lecturer at the Institute for Numismatics at the University of Vienna. From 1996 to 2000 he was senior assistant at the history seminar of the TU Braunschweig and was appointed adjunct professor for ancient history. From 2000 to 2010 he was head of the numismatic department at the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Tübingen . In Tübingen he was appointed an extraordinary professor. Wolters has been teaching as a university professor for numismatics and monetary history at the University of Vienna since 2010. Wolters has been a full member of the German Archaeological Institute since 2009 .

Main areas of research Wolters' are the ancient economic and social history , ancient geography and anthropology , the provincial Roman history - especially the relations between Roman and Germanic - and ancient history auxiliary sciences , especially numismatics. Wolters is considered to be one of the best experts on the early imperial German policy.

Fonts

• "Tam diu Germania vincitur". Roman German victories and German victory propaganda up to the end of the 1st century AD (= small notebooks of the coin collection at the Ruhr University in Bochum. No. 10/11). University Press Dr. Norbert Brockmeyer, Bochum 1989, ISBN 3-88339-716-4 .
• Roman conquest and rulership organization in Gaul and Germania. On the origin and significance of the so-called clientele-fringe states (= Bochum historical studies. Old history. No. 8). University Press Dr. Norbert Brockmeyer, Bochum 1990, ISBN 3-88339-803-9 (also: Bochum, University, dissertation, 1987).
• Nummi Signati. Studies on Roman coinage and money economy (= Vestigia . Contributions to ancient history. Vol. 49). CH Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-42923-8 (also: Braunschweig, Technische Universität, habilitation paper, 1995).
• The Romans in Germania (= Beck'sche series. 2136). CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-44736-8 (In Czech: Římané v Germánii. Vyšehrad, Prague 2002, ISBN 80-7021-539-9 ).
• with Wolfgang Szaivert: wages, prices, values. Sources on the Roman monetary economy. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-16774-0 .
• The battle in the Teutoburg Forest. Arminius, Varus and Roman Germania. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57674-4 ( review ); updated and revised edition 2017.
• Ancient numismatics. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-534-15895-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinhard Wolters in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Wolters at the University of Vienna