Susanna Elm
Susanna K. Elm (born November 11, 1959 in Münster ) is a German ancient historian with a focus on the history of late antiquity . She is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley .
Life
Susanna Elm, daughter from the marriage of the historian Kaspar Elm and his wife Ingeborg, graduated from high school in 1978 at the Leopoldinum Gymnasium in Detmold . She then studied Classical Philology and History at the Free University of Berlin . In 1986 she did a PhD with the historian John F. Matthews at St Hilda's College of the University of Oxford with The Organization and Institutions of female asceticism in Fourth-Century Cappadocia and Egypt . She then worked for a year as an analyst at Morgan Guaranty Trust before becoming an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. In 1994 she became an associate professor and since 2002 she has held a professorship at Berkeley.
Elm is married to the Tübingen lawyer Martin Nettesheim .
Fonts (selection)
- Virgins of God. The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1994
- Editor with Naomi Janowitz: The "Holy Man" Revisited (1971–1997): Charisma, Texts, and Communities in Late Antiquity. Special edition Journal of Early Christian Studies. Vol. 6, Issue 3, 1998
- Editor with Éric Rebillard, Antonella Romano: Orthodoxie, christianisme, histoire - Orthodoxy, Christianity, History. École française de Rome, Rome 2000
- Editor with Stefan N. Willich: Medical Challenges for the New Millennium - An Interdisciplinary Task. Kluver, New York / Amsterdam 2001
- Editor with Stefan N. Willich: Quo Vadis - Medical Healing. Past Concepts and New Approaches. New York: Springer 2009
- Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church: Gregory of Nazianzus, Emperor Julian, and the Christianization of the Late Roman Elites. University of California Press, Berkeley 2012
Web links
- Literature by and about Susanna Elm in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Susanna Elm in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Homepage at the University of California, Berkeley
- Susanna Elm on Academia.edu
- Interview with Rainer Hank: Roman Empire: "Slavery was often better than wage labor" , in: faz.net July 19, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ curriculum vitae susanna elm , yumpu.com
- ↑ Biography, Prof. Dr. Martin Nettesheim , jura.uni-tuebingen.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Elm, Susanna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Elm, Susanna K. (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ancient historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Muenster |