Roland Steinacher

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Roland Steinacher (born September 22, 1972 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian ancient historian .

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Steinacher passed the Matura at the Akademisches Gymnasium Innsbruck and then studied history, ancient history and antiquity as well as German philology at the University of Innsbruck from 1991 to 1997 . Between 1998 and 2001 he completed the course at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research in Vienna, of which he has been a member since 2001. In 2002 he was at the University of Vienna at Herwig Wolfram doctorate and was there in late 2012 habilitation . From 2003 to 2013 Steinacher worked at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and at the University of Vienna , among other things as a research assistant to Walter Pohl in the ERC project "Social cohesion, identity and religion in Europe, 400–1200" (SCIRE). He has received various grants for his research, such as a 2014 Gerda Henkel Foundation grant and an Alexander von Humboldt grant in 2015 and 2016. In 2017 he was a Senior Fellow at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald , and in 2018 he was a junior group leader in the DFG Kolleg research group Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages at the University of Tübingen . Since October 2018 he has been Professor of Ancient History at the University of Innsbruck .

Steinacher's research focuses on late Roman history , the transformation of the Roman world in the European early Middle Ages , ethnic processes in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, ancient and medieval historiography as well as ethnography, images of barbarians, intellectual, scholarly and scientific history up to the early modern era , reception history of antiquity, edition , Source and manuscript studies, numismatics and epigraphy, transmission problems, history of the Church and Christianity, Roman and post-Roman North Africa ( Africa in the first millennium ) and the Roman provinces in northern Italy, the Alpine region and the Balkans between 300 and 600 AD. He is particularly recognized as an expert on the Vandals and Heruli .

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Monographs

  • Studies on Vandal History. The equation of the ethnonyms Wends, Slavs and Vandals from the Middle Ages to the 18th century . Vienna 2002 (unpublished dissertation).
  • The vandals. The rise and fall of a barbarian empire . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 3-608-94851-1 .
  • Rome and the barbarians. Peoples in the Alpine and Danube region (300–600) . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 3-17-025168-6 .

Editorships

  • with Guido M. Berndt : The realm of the vandals and its (preliminary) stories (= memoranda. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class. Volume 366 = Research on the history of the Middle Ages. Volume 13). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-7001-3822-8 .
  • with Guido M. Berndt: Arianism. Roman heresy and barbarian creed. Ashgate, Farnham et al. 2014, ISBN 1-4094-4659-X .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ https://www.univie.ac.at/scire/
  2. ↑ Ambros Waibel: Ancient historian on political comparisons: "You build up angry barbarians" . In: The daily newspaper September 24, 2017.
  3. ^ Andreas Puff-Trojan: Roland Steinacher, Die Vandalen (context - non-fiction books and topics); , Editing: Wolfgang Ritschl, Ö1, July 8th, 2016. Retrieved January 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Steinacher, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd September 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Innsbruck , Tyrol , Austria