Roger S. Bagnall

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Roger Shaler Bagnall (born August 19, 1947 in Seattle , Washington ) is an American ancient historian and papyrologist .

life and work

Bagnall's research focus is on the history of the eastern Mediterranean , in particular Greco-Roman Egypt from the Hellenistic through the Roman epoch to late antiquity .

Bagnall graduated from Yale University from 1964 to 1968 , where he received a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude . He then obtained his Master of Arts degree at the University of Toronto in 1969 , while at the same time teaching as a teaching fellow . In 1972 the doctorate took place on the basis of the dissertation The Administration of the Ptolemaic Possessions outside Egypt . After a brief position at Florida State University as Assistant Professor of Classics (1972-74), Bagnall was appointed to Columbia University in New York in 1983 , where he had taught since 1974 and has now been appointed full professor. In 2007, Bagnall accepted a call to New York University, where he founded the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), which he headed as Leon Levy Director until 2016 .

Bagnall is Project Director of the excavations in the Dachla Oasis, which Columbia University has carried out since 2001 - together with New York University since 2008 . He is one of the General Editors of the Encyclopedia of Ancient History .

Memberships and honors

On June 2, 1997, Bagnall Membre associé de la Classe des Lettres et des Sciences morales et politiques of the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique . In 2000 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Since 2001 he has been an elected member of the American Philosophical Society . In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy . He is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and Life Member of the Society for Classical Studies , of which he was President in 2016. In 2016 he received an honorary doctorate from the Université de Paris-Sorbonne . From 2007 to 2013 Bagnall was President of the Association Internationale de Papyrologues , on August 3, 2019 he was elected by the Assemblée Générale as one of its seven honorary presidents.

Fonts

  • The Administration of the Ptolemaic Possessions outside Egypt (Columbia studies in the classical tradition 4). Brill, Leiden 1976 (also Diss. Phil. Toronto 1972). ISBN 978-90-04-04490-6 .
  • The Chronological Systems of Byzantine Egypt (with Klaas A. Worp), Zutphen 1978.
  • Greek Historical Documents. The Hellenistic Period. (Sources for biblical study 16). Scholars Press, Atlanta, Ga 1981. ISBN 0-89130-496-7
  • Currency and Inflation in Fourth Century Egypt , Atlanta 1985.
  • Consuls of the Later Roman Empire (with Alan Cameron , Seth R. Schwartz and Klaas A. Worp), Atlanta 1987.
  • Egypt in Late Antiquity , Princeton 1993.
  • Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History , London 1995.
  • Later Roman Egypt. Society, Religion, Economy and administration (Collected studies series 758). Ashgate, Burlington, VT, etc. a. 2003. ISBN 978-0-86078-899-7
  • Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. Sources and Approaches (Variorum collected studies series 864). Ashgate, Burlington, VT, etc. a. 2006. ISBN 0-7546-5906-2
  • (with Bruce W. Frier): The Demography of Roman Egypt , Cambridge 1994. (2nd edition, Cambridge 2006)
  • Early Christian Books in Egypt . Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press 2009. ISBN 9780691140261 . Review by: Benjamin Garstad, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.02.10 [1]
  • The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-984369-5
  • A desert city. Life and culture in an Egyptian oasis in the 4th century AD (Scope of Antiquity 2). Steiner, Stuttgart 2013. ISBN 978-3-515-10373-2
  • Papyrological Texts in Honor of Roger S. Bagnall (American Studies in Papyrology 53), ed. by Rodney Ast et al. The American Society of Papyrologists, Durham, NC, 2013. ISBN 978-0-9799758-6-8 .
  • The Undertakers of the Great Oasis (P. Nekr.) (Graeco-Roman memoirs. Supplementary volume 1). Egypt Exploration Society, London 2017. ISBN 978-0-85698-234-7

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae. Columbia University, archived from the original on June 18, 2007 ; accessed on June 17, 2014 (English).
  2. ↑ See page of the ISAW .
  3. ↑ See NYU Excavations at Amheida in Egypt's Dakhleh Oasis .
  4. ↑ See Roger S. Bagnall on the page of the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique .
  5. ↑ Directory of members of the AAAS. Retrieved July 23, 2016 .
  6. ^ Member History: Roger S. Bagnall. American Philosophical Society, accessed April 16, 2018 (English, with a short biography).
  7. ^ Fellows: Professor Roger Bagnall. British Academy, accessed April 16, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Cf. Bagnall on the ISAW website .
personal data
SURNAME Bagnall, Roger S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bagnall, Roger Shaler
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ancient historian and papyrologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Seattle