Werner Dahlheim

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Werner Dahlheim (born June 2, 1938 in Berlin ) is a German ancient historian .

Life

After graduating from the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium Trier in 1958, Dahlheim studied at the University of Munich , where he received his doctorate in 1965 with a thesis on the foreign policy of the Roman Republic under Robert Werner . He then worked as an assistant in Munich and at the Free University of Berlin , where he completed his habilitation in 1970. There he was also an academic advisor and from the summer semester 1971 to the winter semester 1971/72 professor. From 1972 until his retirement in 2006 he held a chair for ancient history at the Technical University of Berlin .

The focus of Dahlheim's academic work is Roman history , where he dealt with foreign policy and provincial administration of the republic as well as with personalities such as Caesar , Pompey and Augustus , as well as with early Christianity and the reception of antiquity. In addition, he has written fundamental overviews of Roman history and antiquity as a whole.

Dahlheim was a consultant for the ZDF film Große Völker - Die Römer (2014).

Fonts

  • Structure and development of Roman international law in the third and second centuries BC BC (= Vestigia . Vol. 8). Beck, Munich 1968 (revised and expanded dissertation, University of Munich, published in 1965 under the title Deditio und societas. Studies on the development of Roman foreign policy in the heyday of the republic ).
  • Violence and domination. The provincial system of rule of the Roman Republic . De Gruyter, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-11-006973-3 .
  • History of the Roman Empire (= Oldenbourg floor plan of history . Vol. 3). Oldenbourg, Munich 1984; 3rd, revised and expanded edition 2003, ISBN 3-486-49673-5 .
  • Julius Caesar. The honor of the warrior and the fall of the Roman Republic . Piper, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-492-15218-X .
    Revised and expanded new edition: Julius Caesar. The honor of the warrior and the plight of the state . Schöningh, Paderborn 2005, ISBN 3-506-71981-5 ( review by Wilfried Nippel in der Zeit ).
  • Greco-Roman antiquity . 2 volumes. Schöningh, Paderborn 1992.
    Edition in one volume: Die Antike. Greece and Rome from the beginnings to the expansion of Islam . 4th edition. Schöningh, Paderborn 1995, ISBN 3-506-71980-7 .
  • At the cradle of Europe. Urban freedom in ancient Rome . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-596-60105-3 .
  • Augustus. Rebel, ruler, savior. A biography . Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-60593-2 .
  • The world in the time of Jesus. Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65176-2 .

Awards

  • 2003: Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge Prize for unconventional art education
  • 2015: Golo Mann Prize for his work The World at the Time of Jesus

literature

  • Ernst Baltrusch : History of Ancient History at the Free University. In: Karol Kubicki, Siegward Lönnendonker (ed.): The historical sciences at the Free University of Berlin (= contributions to the history of science of the Free University of Berlin. Vol. 2). V & R unipress, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89971-475-3 , pp. 11–40, here: pp. 16–17 and 32.

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personal data
SURNAME Dahlheim, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin