Sabine Hübner (ancient historian)

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Sabine Renate Huebner (born June 2, 1976 in Osnabrück ) is a German ancient historian .

Life

Sabine R. Hübner studied Ancient History and Classical Philology at the University of Münster and the Università degli studi Roma Tre from 1995 to 2001 and completed her studies in Münster in 2001 with the first state examination and a master's degree. This was followed from 2002 to 2005 by a doctoral degree as a DFG scholarship holder in the Graduate School Leitbilder der Spätantike at the University of Jena with Walter Ameling . The doctorate took place in 2005 with a dissertation on the subject of the clergy in the society of late ancient Asia Minor . In 2003 she spent a research stay at University College London sponsored by the DAAD . After completing her doctorate, she researched and taught in the USA from 2005 to 2010. After a post-doctoral research fellowship in 2005 at the University of California at Berkeley , she then taught as an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University in New York from 2006 to 2009 . During this time she was funded by a one-year DFG research grant and a three-year Marie-Curie Outgoing Research Fellowship from the European Commission. From 2007 to 2008 she was also a visiting fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World in New York and in 2010 a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (School of Historical Studies) in Princeton .

Hübner completed her habilitation in 2010 with a thesis on Family, Household and Intergenerational Solidarity - Roman Egypt in Cross-Cultural Perspective at the Free University of Berlin , where she then also taught for three years as a private lecturer . In 2010 she received a two-year research grant from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock and in 2011 a five-year Heisenberg grant from the DFG. In 2011/12 she spent a research stay at the Collège de France in Paris , in 2012/13 she was visiting professor at the Institutum Romanum Finlandiae and the British School at Rome . Since July 2014 she has held the professorship for Ancient History at the University of Basel and head of the Department of Ancient History. In 2015 she was visiting professor at the Central European University (CEU), in 2018 she was visiting professor in the Humanities Council and Stewart Fellow in Religion at Princeton University in the USA.

Her main research interests are in the field of Greek and Roman social and religious history, late antiquity , historical demography , epigraphy and papyrology . Hübner headed several research groups funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation: the edition of the Basler Papyrussammlung (2015-2018), the interdisciplinary project "Egypt at the transition from the Byzantine to early Arab world, 6th to 8th centuries" (2016-2019) and currently the die Interdisciplinary project “The Roman Egypt Laboratory: Climate Change, Pandemics, and the Transition to Late Antiquity” (2020–2025) connecting ancient history with climate science.

She is general secretary of the Fédération Internationale des Associations d'Études Classiques (FIEC), board member of the Swiss Association for Classical Studies (SVAW) and the Swiss Patristic Working Group (GSEP), co-editor of the Journal of Late Antiquity , on the scientific advisory board of the journal Ktèma and one of the Editor-in-chief of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Ancient History .

She has four children with the French writer Stéphane Piatzszek (* 2011, * 2013, * 2016, * 2020).

Books

  • The clergy in the society of late ancient Asia Minor. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2005. See the reviews by Raymond van Dam ( see points 6 (2006), no. 9 ), Hartmut Blum (Das Historisch-Politische Buch 4 (2006), p. 436), Karen Piepenbrink (Historische Zeitschrift 284 (2007), pp. 163-164) and Sylvain Destephen (Antiquité Tardive 15 (2007), pp. 397-402).
  • with David M. Ratzan (Ed.): Growing up Fatherless in Antiquity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-49050-4 . See the reviews by Beryl Rawson (Journal of Roman Archeology 23 (2010), pp. 606-609), Christina Clark (Journal of Roman Studies 100 (2010), p. 268) and Fanny Dolanski (The Classical Review 60 (2010 ), Pp. 488–492)
  • with Roger S. Bagnall , Kai Brodersen , Craige B. Champion, Andrew Erskine (Eds.): The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford 2012, ISBN 978-1-4051-7935-5 .
  • The Family in Roman Egypt. A Comparative Approach to Intergenerational Solidarity and Conflict. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2013, ISBN 978-1-107-01113-7 .
  • with Béatrice Caseau (Ed.): Inheritance, Law and Religions in the Ancient and Mediaeval World. Collège de France - CNRS - Center de Recherche d'Histoire et Civilization de Byzance Monographies 45. Paris 2014. See the review by Th. E. van Bochove (Medioevo Greco (2016), pp. 379–383).
  • with Geoffrey Nathan (Ed.) Mediterranean Families in Antiquity: Households, Extended Families, and Domestic Space. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford 2016, ISBN 978-1-119-14372-7 .
  • with Christian Laes (Ed.) The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2019, ISBN 978-1-108-47017-9 .
  • Papyri and the Social World of the New Testament. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2019, ISBN 978-1-108-45570-1 . See the reviews by Brent Nongbri ( BMCR 02.27.2020 ) and Hans Förster ( Theologische Revue 116, 2020 ).
  • with W. Graham Claytor, Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello and Matthias Müller (eds.) Papyri of the University Library of Basel (P.Bas. II) (= Archive for Papyrus Research and Related Areas . Supplements, Volume 41). De Gruyter, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-11-068071-3 .
  • with Eugenio Garosi, Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello, Matthias Müller, Stefanie Schmidt and Matthias Stern (eds.) Living the End of Antiquity. Individual Histories from Byzantine to Islamic Egypt (Millennium Studies / Millennium Studies, 84). De Gruyter, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-11-068331-8 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of April 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ http://unibas.academia.edu/SabineRHuebner/CurriculumVitae
  3. ↑ http://www.hs.ias.edu/memberlists/2009-2010
  4. ↑ Visiting Fellows 2017–2018 . In: Humanities Council . ( princeton.edu [accessed July 26, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Huebner, Sabine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huebner, Sabine Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 2nd 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück