Wolfgang Spickermann

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Wolfgang Spickermann (born July 16, 1959 in Oberhausen - Sterkrade ) is a German ancient historian and religious scholar .

Wolfgang Spickermann studied history, Catholic theology and philosophy at the Ruhr University in Bochum and ancient history at the University of Osnabrück . In 1991 he received his doctorate on the subject of the "worship of gods by women in Roman Gaul, Germania and Raetia". In 2002 he completed his habilitation. Spickermann was a research assistant and senior assistant in Ancient History at the University of Osnabrück and a research assistant in Comparative Religious Studies at the University of Erfurt . From 2005 to 2007 he was a lecturer for Ancient Church History at the Ruhr University Bochum and from 2007 to spring 2008 he was a substitute professor for Ancient History at theUniversity of Trier . From March 2009 to September 2013 he held the professorship for the history of religion in the Mediterranean region in Roman antiquity at the Max Weber College at the University of Erfurt, and from May 2011 to September 2013 he was head of the college. Since October 2013 he has been university professor for ancient history at the Institute for Antiquity at the University of Graz and an associated fellow at the Max Weber College at the University of Erfurt.

His main research interests are Roman religious and social history, Latin epigraphy , state and church in late antiquity as well as the cultural and intellectual history of the 2nd century AD ( Lukian of Samosata ). Spickermann is a founding member of the Working Group on History and EDV e. V. and works on the production and evaluation of digital media in the field of history. Since 2017 he has been one of the speakers of the International Graduate School “Resonant World Relations in Socio-Religious Practices in Antiquity and the Present” at the University of Graz and the Max Weber Center at the University of Erfurt. He has been a full member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2018 .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • "Mulieres ex voto". Studies on the worship of gods by women in Roman Gaul, Germania and Raetia (1st - 3rd century AD) (= Bochum Historical Studies - Ancient History. Number 12). Brockmeyer, Bochum 1994, ISBN 3-8196-0288-7 .
  • Religious history of Roman Germania. Volume I: Germania Superior (= religion of the Roman provinces. Volume 2). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 978-3-16-146686-1 .
  • Religious history of Roman Germania. Volume II: Germania Inferior (= religion of the Roman provinces. Volume 3). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-16-149381-2 .

Editorships

  • Religion in the Germanic provinces of Rome. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-16-147613-1 .
  • with Rainer Wiegels : Celtic gods in the Roman Empire. Files from the 4th international workshop “Fontes Epigraphici Religionis Celticae Antiquae” (FERCAN.) From October 4th - 6th, 2002 at the University of Osnabrück. Bibliopolis, Möhnesee 2005, ISBN 3-933925-69-X .
  • Rome, Germania and the Empire. Festschrift for Rainer Wiegels on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Scripta-Mercaturae-Verlag, St. Katharinen 2005, ISBN 3-89590-159-8 .
  • with Hubert Cancik and Alfred Schäfer : Centrality and Religion. For the formation of urban centers in the Imperium Romanum (= studies and texts on antiquity and Christianity. Volume 39). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-16-149155-9 .
  • with Jörg Rüpke . Reflections on Religious Individuality. Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian Texts and Practices (= Religious-historical experiments and preparatory work . Volume 62). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-028674-8 .
  • Celtic god names as an individual option? Celtic Theonyms as an Individual Option? Files of the 11th international workshop “Fontes Epigraphici Religionum Celticarum Antiquarum” from 19. – 21. May 2011 at the University of Erfurt (= Osnabrück research on antiquity and the reception of antiquity. Volume 19). Leidorf, Rahden / Westphalia 2013, ISBN 978-3-89646-740-9 .
  • with Katharina Waldner, Richard Gordon: Burial rituals, ideas of afterlife, and the individual in the hellenistic world and the Roman empire (= Potsdamer Classical Studies. Vol. 57). Steiner, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 3-515-11546-3 .
  • Early Christianity in the Eastern Alps. (= Keryx. Vol. 5). Unipress Graz, Graz 2018, ISBN 978-3-902666-59-8 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Resonant world relations in socio-religious practices in antiquity and the present , accessed on September 22, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Spickermann, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen