Werner Huss

Werner Huss (born September 8, 1936 in Schwabmünchen ) is a German ancient historian .

Werner Huss received his doctorate in Catholic theology in 1967 and completed his habilitation in 1975 with the thesis Investigations on Ptolemy IV's Foreign Policy for Ancient History in Munich. From 1978 until his retirement in 2001 he taught as professor of ancient history at the University of Bamberg . He is co-editor of the Munich contributions to papyrus research and ancient legal history .

Huss' main areas of research are Punic ( Carthaginian ) history, Hellenistic history, especially that of Ptolemaic Egypt, and the history of ancient religions . Werner Huss is an internationally renowned specialist in the history of Carthage and the history of Hellenism . His most important works are the history of the Carthaginians and Egypt in the Hellenistic period 332-30 BC. Chr.

Werner Huss is the father of the Romanist Bernhard Huss .

Fonts

• Investigations on Ptolemy IV's foreign policy (= Munich contributions to papyrus research and ancient legal history. Issue 69). Beck, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-406-00669-8 .
• with Karl Strobel : Contributions to history. (= Bamberger Hochschulschriften. Booklet 9). Bayerische Verlagsanstalt, Bamberg 1983, ISBN 3-87052-657-2 .
• History of the Carthaginians. (= Handbook of Classical Studies . Department 3, Part 8). Beck, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-406-30654-3 .
  • also as a Spanish ( Los Cartagineses. 1993) and Italian ( Cartagine 1995) translation and in the Beck'sche special edition series as: Die Karthager. Beck, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-406-34385-6 .
• Editor: Carthage. (= Paths of Research . Volume 654). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1992, ISBN 3-534-04236-0 .
• The Macedonian King and the Egyptian Priests. (= Historia individual fonts. Issue 85). Steiner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-515-06502-4 .
• Carthage. (= Beck's series of knowledge . Volume 2025). Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-39825-1 . 4th, revised edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-39825-4 .
• Egypt in the Hellenistic period 332–30 BC Chr.Beck , Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47154-4 ( review by Friederike Herklotz).
• The administration of the Ptolemy Empire. (= Munich contributions to papyrus research and ancient legal history. Issue 104). Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-62915-0 .
• The economy of Egypt in the Hellenistic period. (= Munich contributions to papyrus research and ancient legal history. Issue 105). Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-64088-9 .

literature

• Klaus Geus , Klaus Zimmermann (eds.): Punica-Libyca-Ptolemaica. Festschrift for Werner Huss on his 65th birthday presented by students, friends and colleagues . Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta (OLA 104). Leuven, et al .: Peeters Publishers, 2001. ISBN 90-429-1066-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Werner Huss in the catalog of the German National Library