Wolfgang Jahn (ancient historian)

Wolfgang Jahn (born May 3, 1955 in Quedlinburg ) is a German ancient historian who primarily dealt with ancient economic history. Since 1998 he has been working at the East Frisian State Museum in Emden .

Life

Wolfgang Jahn studied history at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , where he was a research student and in December 1985 with the work on the economic basis of the Roman church. The emergence and administration of their patrimonial possessions in the fourth to sixth centuries was doctorated. The PhD B followed in 1990 on the subject of economy and society in Italy in the sixth century. Investigations into the origin of feudal conditions with special consideration of central and southern Italy , experts were Rigobert Günther , Gottfried Härtel and Dietrich Claude .

In 1998 Jahn was appointed deputy museum director at the Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum in Emden , and has been its director since January 1, 2015.

Fonts (selection)

• with Klaas-Dieter Voss (ed.): Menso Alting and his time. Faith Controversy - Freedom - Citizen Pride [on the occasion of the exhibition "Menso Alting and His Time. Faith Controversy - Freedom - Citizen Pride" from October 7, 2012 to March 31, 2013], Oldenburg: Isensee, 2012. ISBN 978-3-89995-918-5
• with Carsten Jöhnk (Ed.): Elegantly tense. The Dutch wheel lock pistols of the Emder Rüstkamer (= publications of the Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum Emden; Vol. 30), Oldenburg: Isensee, 2010. ISBN 978-3-89995-631-3

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 317.

Web links

• Wolfgang Jahn in the FID Benelux research directory