Ulrich Gotter

Ulrich Gotter at a conference in March 2015 in Düsseldorf.

Ulrich Gotter (born April 19, 1964 in Berlin ) is a German ancient historian .

After studying in Berlin and Freiburg, Gotter received his doctorate from the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg in 1992 with a thesis on Roman domestic politics after the murder of Caesar under Hans-Joachim Gehrke , whose assistant he was from 1992 to 1998. In 2002 Gotter completed his habilitation in Freiburg with a thesis on Greece in Rome? The Roman speech about Hellas and its contexts . The study remained unpublished. After an interim position at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , he became professor and professor for ancient history at the University of Konstanz in the 2004/05 winter semester . A call to the University of Freiburg, succeeding Aloys Winterling he refused in 2009.

Gotter's main field of work is the Roman history of the later republic and early imperial times ; There are also publications on the history of religion in late antiquity and the Hellenistic monarchy.

Work

• The dictator is dead! Politics in Rome between the Ides of March and the establishment of the Second Triumvirate ( Historia-Einzelschriften 110), Stuttgart 1996.
• Greece in Rome? The Roman speech about Hellas and its contexts (3rd-1st century BC) . Unpublished habilitation thesis, Freiburg 2001.
• Roman historiography from the beginning to Livy. Authors - genres - contexts . Darmstadt 2003 (co-editor).
• From Temple to Church. Destruction and Renewal of Local Cultic Topography in Late Antiquity . Leiden 2008 (co-editor).
• Religious diversity and dealing with minorities. Konstanz 2014 (co-editor).
• Augustus and the Destruction of History. The Politics of the Past in Early Imperial Rome. Cambridge 2019 (Associate Editor).

Web links

Commons : Ulrich Gotter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Ulrich Gotter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Gotter at the University of Konstanz