Sigrid Mratschek

Sigrid Mratschek (also Sigrid Mratschek-Halfmann , born May 15, 1955 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German ancient historian .

Career

Sigrid Mratschek studied Classical Philology and History at the University of Heidelberg from 1975 to 1981 . In 1981 she passed the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools . From 1982 to 1985 she received a doctoral scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation , and from 1986 to 1989 she worked as a research assistant at the University of Osnabrück in the recording and editing of the Upper Germanic inscriptions for the supplement to the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum XIII. In 1990 she received her doctorate in ancient history at the University of Heidelberg. In 1991 she was awarded Divites et praepotentes for her dissertation . Wealth and social position in the literature of the principality's time honored with the Bruno Heck Science Prize.

From 1989 to 2000 Mratschek worked as a university assistant at the University of Frankfurt am Main . It was there that she completed her habilitation in ancient history in 1999 ; her habilitation thesis on Paulinus von Nola's correspondence was funded by the DFG. In 2001/02 she worked scientifically with Professor Georg Schöllgen at the Institute for Church History at the University of Bonn on an interdisciplinary DFG project on episcopal embassies to the imperial court . In 2002 she moved permanently to the University of Rostock , where she was appointed adjunct professor for ancient history in 2004 and was given the academic status of professor at the University of Rostock in 2008. In 2007 she was elected to the board (Member of Council for Germany) of the International Patristic Society ( Association Internationale d'Études Patristiques ) in Oxford / Paris. In 2012 she was accepted by All Souls College , one of the most prestigious colleges at Oxford University, for her research project on Sidonius Apollinaris . Creating Identity from the Past invited for a visiting fellowship. In 2013 she was elected Consulting Editor on the editorial board of The Journal of Late Antiquity , the only English-language journal for late antiquity.

Research priorities

• ancient economic and social history
• History of the educated elite and the sociology of literature
• Gender studies
• Historiography and political history of the Roman Empire
• roman epigraphy
• Late Antiquity and Early Christianity Patristic .

Memberships

• 1989: Member of the Association of Historians and the Mommsen Society
• 2004: Member of the Council of the Philosophical Faculty
• 2007: Member of Council for Germany of the Association Internationale d'Etudes Patristiques, Oxford - Paris.
• 2009: Liaison lecturer of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation for the University of Rostock

Fonts (selection)

• Divites et praepotentes. Wealth and social position in the literature of the principality's time (dissertation), Steiner, Stuttgart 1993 ( Historia . Individual writings, Bd. 70) ISBN 3-515-05973-3
• The correspondence of Paulinus von Nola. Communication and social contacts between Christian intellectuals (habilitation), Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002 ( Hypomnemata , Bd. 134) ISBN 3-525-25232-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Sigrid Mratschek in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Sigrid Mratschek in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
• Personal website
• Website of the University of Rostock