Veit Rosenberger

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Veit Rosenberger (born April 7, 1963 in Meckesheim ; † September 1, 2016 there ) was a German ancient historian .

Veit Rosenberger attended primary school in Meckesheim and the Wilhelmi-Gymnasium Sinsheim until 1982 . Since 1982 he has been studying ancient history, Latin and classical archeology at the University of Heidelberg . Interrupted by civil service in 1983 and 1984, he finished his master’s degree in 1988. He then continued his studies at the University of Augsburg , Heidelberg, the University of Cologne and St John's College in Oxford . He received his doctorate in 1992 with Géza Alföldy in Heidelberg with the thesis Bella et expeditiones. The ancient terminology of the wars of Rome .

After completing his doctorate, Rosenberger first became an assistant and later a senior assistant at the Chair of Ancient History at the University of Augsburg. There he completed his habilitation in 1997 with the work Tamed Gods. The productive system of the Roman Republic and taught ancient history as a private lecturer in Augsburg. In 2000/01 Rosenberger was an exchange lecturer at Emory University in Atlanta . From 2003 he took on a teaching position and, as successor to Gregor Weber, a substitute professorship at the University of Erfurt . In 2006 he was appointed professor of ancient history there. Rosenberger died unexpectedly in 2016. A memorial colloquium in his honor was held on April 7, 2017 at the University of Erfurt.

He was a specialist in Latin epigraphy and ancient religious history. In the last years of his life he worked on a comprehensive study of asceticism in late antiquity .

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