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Sitta Valerie Ilse Alberta von Reden (born August 29, 1962 in Hanover ) is a German ancient historian and lecturer at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg . Her research focus is on ancient economic, social and cultural history.

Life

Sitta von Reden studied economics and history at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , then at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Cambridge Classical Philology and History. After passing the state examination at the Free University of Berlin in 1987, she received her doctorate in ancient history in Cambridge in 1993 with the thesis Studies in Market and Exchange in Ancient Athens . Her dissertation was awarded the prize for the best dissertation in Great Britain (Ancient History and Archeology Section) from the Hellenic Foundation in Oxford. After several years of teaching and research at various British universities , she completed her habilitation in 2005 at the University of Augsburg with the font Monetization in 3rd-century BC Egypt and then taught as a private lecturer in ancient history at the Philological-Historical Faculty of the University of Augsburg Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster and the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich . Von Reden declined a call to the University of Pennsylvania in 2006.

Since April 1, 2010, von Reden has been Professor of Ancient History with a focus on Greek History at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. In March 2017 she received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for her project Beyond the Silk Road , endowed with 2.5 million euros.

Von Reden is married and has two children.

Fonts (selection)

  • Exchange in Ancient Greece. Duckworth, London 1995, ISBN 0-7156-2600-0 .
  • Paul Cartledge, Paul Millett, Sitta von Reden (Eds.): Kosmos. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1998, ISBN 0-521-57081-6 .
  • Walter Scheidel , Sitta von Reden (Ed.): The Ancient Economy. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-7486-1322-6 .
  • Money in Ptolemaic Egypt. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-85264-7 .
  • Ancient economy (= encyclopedia of Greco-Roman antiquity. Volume 10). de Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin et al. 2015, ISBN 978-3-486-85262-2 .
  • M. Dwivedi, L. Fabian, K. Leese-Messing, L. Morris, EJS Weaverdyck, Sitta von Reden (Eds.): Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies. Volume 1: Contexts. de Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin / Boston 2019, ISBN 978-3-11-060774-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg press releases of March 27, 2017: Sitta von Reden receives Advanced Grant , accessed on March 27, 2017
  2. ↑ Sitta Reden: Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies, Volume 1: Contexts . De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin, Boston 2019, ISBN 978-3-11-060451-1 ( degruyter.com [accessed December 18, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Talking, Sitta von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Talking, Sitta Valerie Ilse Alberta from (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian and professor at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover