Reinhold Bichler

Reinhold Bichler (born January 19, 1947 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian ancient historian .

After graduating from high school in his hometown of Innsbruck in 1965, which he passed with distinction, he studied ancient history, history and philosophy at the University of Innsbruck from 1966–74 . Between 1973 and 1974 he worked as a university lecturer at the Institute for Ancient History, and in January 1974 he received his doctorate sub auspiciis with the dissertation “Critical Contributions to the Problem of the Representation of History in School Books” and was appointed university assistant. In 1980 his habilitation followed with the text “Hellenism. History and problems of an epoch concept ”. In 1982 he was appointed full professor of ancient history and comparative history in Innsbruck as the successor to his teacher Franz Hampl . 1991–92 he was vice dean of the humanities faculty. He retired in 2013 .

Bichler is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and the Austrian Academy of Sciences . He has been married since 1973.

Bichler deals with ancient historiography and ethnography , especially Herodotus , as well as the history of ideas in antiquity, especially with antique utopias and their reception . He is also dedicated to the theory and history of historical science. He is currently working on the second volume of the "History of Ancient Utopia" and on studies on Greek historiography, especially on Ktesias and Berossos .

Fonts (in selection)

• Historiography - Ethnography - Utopia. Collected writings , ed. by Robert Rollinger and others:
  • Volume 1: Studies on Herodotus' art of history (= Philippika. Marburg antiquity treatises. Volume 18.1). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-447-05616-8 .
  • Volume 2: Studies on utopia and the imagination of foreign worlds (= Philippika. Marburg antiquity treatises. Volume 18,2). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05857-5 .
  • Volume 3: Studies on the history of science and reception (= Philippika. Marburg antiquity treatises. Volume 18.3). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-447-06145-2 .
  • Volume 4: Studies in Greek historiography (= Philippika. Marburg antiquity treatises. Volume 18.4). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-447-10607-8 .
• Herodotus world. The structure of history based on the image of foreign countries and peoples, their civilization and their history . Akademie-Verlag, 2nd, unchanged edition, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-05-003429-7 .
• together with Robert Rollinger: Herodot (= study books antiquity. Volume 3). 2nd edition, Olms, Hildesheim u. a. 2001, ISBN 3-487-10931-X .
• History of the ancient utopia. Volume 1: From the island of the blessed to Plato's state (= everyday life and culture in antiquity. Volume 3). Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-205-98011-5 .
• "Hellenism". History and problems of an epoch term (= impulses for research. Volume 41). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1983, ISBN 3-534-08801-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinhold Bichler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Reinhold Bichler at the Institute for Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck
• Font directory