Wilfried Nipple
Wilfried Nippel (born January 31, 1950 in Wuppertal ) is a German ancient historian .
Wilfried Nippel studied history and German studies from 1968 to 1973 at the University of Cologne and at the University of Marburg . From 1973 to 1983 he was a research assistant at the universities in Cologne, Basel , Bochum and Munich . In Bochum, he was in 1978 with a thesis on mixed constitutional theory and constitutional reality in Antiquity and Early Modern doctorate . In 1980/81 Nippel conducted research at the German Historical Institute in London , and in 1981/82 he was a visiting scholar at Darwin College in Cambridge .
In 1983 he completed his habilitation at the University of Munich with Christian Meier for ancient history. He then took up a professorship at Bielefeld University . In 1988/89 he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . From 1992 to 2015 Wilfried Nippel was Professor of Ancient History at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He gave his inaugural lecture on Max Weber and the ancient history of his time. Since 2015 he has been a senior professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Since 1997, Nippel has been a full member and deputy "secretary" of the humanities class of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences . In the winter semester 2008/09 and the summer semester 2009 he was a visiting scholar at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala and was represented by Elke Hartmann during this time . From October 2011 to October 2012 he was a fellow at the Max Weber College at the University of Erfurt . In 2013, Nippel received the Karl Christ Prize, which was first awarded at the University of Frankfurt .
Nippel researches primarily on historical anthropology , specialist and scientific history , the reception of antiquities and comparative constitutional history . He is chairman of Clio-online - Historisches Fachinformationssystem eV He is co-editor of Neue Fischer Weltgeschichte . In 2008, on the return of his 200th birthday, Nippel presented the first comprehensive account of the life and work of Johann Gustav Droysen .
Fonts
Monographs
- Mixed constitutional theory and constitutional reality in antiquity and early modern times (= history and society. Vol. 21). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-12-913160-4 (also: Bochum, University, dissertation, 1978).
- Riots and "police" in the Roman Republic. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-608-91434-X (also: Munich, University, habilitation paper, 1983).
- Greeks, barbarians and "savages". Ancient history and social anthropology (= Fischer 4429 story ). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-596-24429-3 .
- Public Order in Ancient Rome (= Key Themes in Ancient History ). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1995, ISBN 0-521-38327-7 .
- Johann Gustav Droysen. A life between science and politics. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-56937-1 .
- Ancient or Modern Freedom? The establishment of democracy in Athens and in modern times (= Fischer 60104 European history ). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-596-60104-2 (In French: Liberté antique, liberté modern. Les fondements de la démocratie de l'Antiquité à nos jours. Traduit par Olivier Mannoni . Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme et al., Paris et al. 2010, ISBN 978-2-7351-1387-3 ).
- Klio doesn't write poetry. Studies on the scientific history of ancient history (= campus historical studies. Vol. 69). Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2013, ISBN 978-3-593-39954-6 .
- Karl Marx. CH Beck, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-71418-4 .
Editorships
- About the study of ancient history (= dtv 4583 dtv science ). Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-423-04583-3 .
- Virtuosos of power. Rule and charisma from Pericles to Mao. CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46045-3 .
- with Bernd Seidensticker : Theodor Mommsen's long shadow. Roman constitutional law as a permanent challenge for research (= Spudasmata . Vol. 107). Olms, Hildesheim et al. 2005, ISBN 3-487-13086-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilfried Nippel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Page from Nippel at the Humboldt University of Berlin
- Entry of Wilfried Nippel at H-Soz-u-Kult
Remarks
- ↑ Wilfried Nippel: Max Weber and the ancient history of his time. Inaugural lecture on June 30, 1992 (= Humboldt University of Berlin. Public lectures. Issue 5, ISSN 1618-4858 ). President of the Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin 1993, online .
- ^ Idw Informationsdienst Wissenschaft, press release from February 27, 2013 , accessed on February 27, 2013.
- ↑ See the reviews of Hans-Christof Kraus in: Yearbook for the History of Central and Eastern Germany 55, 2009, pp. 314–324; Joachim Eibach in: H-Soz-Kult , December 12, 2008, ( online ); Karsten Ruppert in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, German Department 127, 2010, pp. 741–743; Stefan Berger in: The Journal of Modern History 82, 2010, pp. 227–229.
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SURNAME | Nipples, Wilfried |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ancient historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1950 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wuppertal |