Sven Günther (ancient historian)

Sven Günther (born October 25, 1978 in Grünstadt ) is a German ancient historian and professor at the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations in Changchun .

After attending primary school in Monsheim and the Weierhof grammar school in Bolanden , Günther began studying Ancient, Middle and New History as well as law ( public law ) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in 1998 , which he graduated with honors in 2003. He then worked as a Latin teacher and in 2006 received a position as a research assistant at the Institute for Ancient History at the University of Mainz. There he received his doctorate in 2008 under Leonhard Schumacher with a thesis on indirect taxes in the Roman Empire between Augustus and Diocletian . From 2010 he taught history and Latin at the Anna Schmidt School in Frankfurt am Main , and from 2011 at the German School Tokyo Yokohama .

For October 2013 Günther was academic advice on time at the University of Bielefeld , where he was a postdoctoral project on economic theory began in ancient Greece. In 2014 he took on a one-year visiting professorship at the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations at Northeast Normal University in Changchun , China . Immediately afterwards, in September 2015, he took over a professorship for Classics and in December 2015 he was named an “Excellent Foreign Expert” by the university. In September 2016, Jilin Province was named “Outstanding Foreign Expert”, and in 2017 he received the “Changbai Mountain Friendship Award”. Günther has been Vice Director of the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations in Changchun since 2017 .

Sven Günther's research focuses primarily on ancient economic history , numismatics and specialist didactics . Since 2014 he has been the chief editor of the Journal of Ancient Civilizations and co-editor of the Marburg Contributions to Ancient Trade, Economic and Social History . He also represents the Australasian Society for Classical Studies in the international Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Commission.

Publications

• as ed. with Kai Ruffing and Oliver Stoll : Pragmata. Contributions to the economic history of antiquity in memory of Harald Winkel (= Philippika. Marburg ancient treatises. Volume 17). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-447-05536-9 .
• Vectigalia nervos esse rei publicae. The indirect taxes in the Roman Empire from Augustus to Diocletian (= Philippika. Marburg antiquity treatises. Volume 26). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05845-2 .
• as ed. with Michael Pahlke : Alkuin , Propositiones ad acuendos iuvenes / Tasks to sharpen the spirit of youth ( Lindauer's Latin readings ). Lindauer, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87488-222-4 .
• as publisher: framework for ancient economies. Concepts of order and control mechanisms of ancient economic systems in comparison (= Philippika. Marburg ancient treatises. Volume 53). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-447-06722-5 .

Web links

• CV on academia.edu
• Research profile and list of publications on academia.edu
• Brief portrait of Sven Günther in the “Who's Who of Numismatics” on muenzenwoche.de
• CV on the website of the University of Mainz (not up-to-date)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short biography on the website of the Leibniz Institute for International Textbook Research , accessed on June 7, 2019.
2. ↑ International Thesaurus Commission (IThK). Retrieved October 25, 2018.