Alexander Demandt

Alexander Demandt ( born June 6, 1937 in Marburg ) is a German historian.

The son of the Hessian historian and archivist Karl Ernst Demandt studied history and Latin philology in Tübingen, Munich and Marburg. His academic teachers were Joseph Vogt, Karl Friedrich Stroheker, Wolfgang Schadewaldt, Fritz Taeger, Karl Christian and Christian Habicht. 1964 Alexander Demandt earned his doctorate under hawk with a dissertation on current affairs and historical picture in Ammianus Marcellinus. As assistant at the Johann -Wolfgang- Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, he received 1964/65 the travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute. In 1966 he became an assistant at the University of Konstanz, 1970, he was there his habilitation with a thesis on Magister militum.

Demandt was 1974-2005 Professor of Ancient History at the Friedrich -Meinecke -Institut of the Freie Universität Berlin. The focus of his work was in the areas of the Roman world and in Late Antiquity, he also deals with the phenomenon of decline in the history, culture, vandalism, theory of history, philosophy of history and history of science. Published in 1992 Demandt together with his wife Barbara transcripts of lectures by historian Theodor Mommsen on the Roman Empire, which he had found in a Nuremberg bookseller. His last lecture in office, he held on 14 July 2005. Demandt In 2003 was awarded the Prize Ausonius, 2008 he received the Culture Prize of the Wetterau district. He is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 1990, Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute and since 2000 Correspondent. Since 2007, Alexander Demandt had several television appearances as an expert in the directed by Guido Knopp and moderated television documentary series ZDF History.

He is the father of the art historian Philip Demandt.

Writings in selection

  • Criticism of the times and of history in the work Ammianus ( = Habelts dissertation Prints Series Ancient History: . Issue 5, ISSN 0072-9175 ). Habelt, Bonn 1965.
  • Deformation tendencies in the tradition of ancient solar and lunar eclipses. Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz 1970. (Online)
  • Metaphors for history. Imagery and parables in the historical-political thinking. Beck, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-406-04696-7.
  • The fall of Rome. The dissolution of the Roman Empire in the judgment of posterity. Beck, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-406-09598-4.
  • History that never happened. A treatise on the question: What would happen if ...? ( = Minor Vandenhoeck - series 1501). Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 1984, ISBN 3-525-33499-0 (several editions, most recently: ibid 2011, ISBN 978-3-525-30020-6; online).
  • The Late Antiquity. Roman history from Diocletian to Justinian. 284-565 AD ( = Handbook of Classical Studies Department 3: Ancient Near East, Greek History, Roman History Part 6. . ). Beck, Munich, 1989, ISBN 3- 406-07992 -X (2nd completely revised and extended edition. Ibid. 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-55993-8 ).
  • As editor: power and law. Large processes in history. Beck, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-406-34672-3.
  • As editor with Reimer Hansen: Germany's borders in history. Beck, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-406-34391-0 ( third, revised edition. Ibid. 1993, ISBN 3-406-35349-5 ).
  • As editor with Barbara Demandt: Theodor Mommsen: Roman imperial history. After the lecture notes taken by Sebastian and Paul Hensel 1882/86. Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-36078-5.
  • End times? The future of history. Siedler, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-88680-478- X.
  • The ideal state. The political theories of antiquity. Böhlau, Cologne, among others 1993, ISBN 3-412-00892-3 ( third, revised edition. Ibid. 2000, ISBN 3- 412-09899 -X).
  • Ancient forms of government. A comparative constitutional history of the Old World. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-05-002794-0.
  • As editor: Living with strangers. A cultural history from antiquity to the present. Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-39859-6.
  • The private life of the Roman emperor. Beck, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-406-40525-8 (2nd, fully revised and expanded new edition ibid. 1997, ISBN 3-406-42509-7, .. 1st edition ( in the Beck series ( = Beck ' cal series 1746 ) ). ibid. 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54774-4 ).
  • History of history. Science Historical Essays ( = Historica minora. Vol. 1). Böhlau, Cologne et al 1997, ISBN 3-412-15096-7.
  • As editor: The end of the world empires. From the Persians to the Soviet Union. Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-41850-3 ( Lizenzausgabe. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-67-4 ).
  • Vandalism. Violence against culture. Siedler, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-88680-624-3.
  • History of late antiquity. The Roman Empire of Diocletian to Justinian 284-565 AD Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-44107-6 (2nd, fully revised and expanded edition ibid. 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57241-8. ) ( Abridged version of late Antiquity, 1989).
  • The Celts ( = Beck series 2101 CH Beck knowledge). Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-43301-4 ( 7th revised edition. Ibid. 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-44798-3 ).
  • As editor: Places of the Spirit. Large universities of Europe from ancient times to the present. Böhlau, Cologne et al 1999, ISBN 3-412-01899-6.
  • Hands in innocence. Pontius Pilate in history. Böhlau, Cologne, among others 1999, ISBN 3- 412-01799 -X (license issue: ( = Herder spectrum 4990 ) Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau ) and others 2001, ISBN 3-451-04990-2. ).
  • Great moments in history. Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46649-4 (several editions, most recently: Limited Special Edition ( = Beck series 4060 ) ibid 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57732-1. . ).
  • Over all the treetops. The tree in the cultural history. Böhlau, Cologne others 2002, ISBN 3-412-13501-1, ( also: Albatros, Dusseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-491-96140-8 ).
  • Time and the wrong time. Historical Philosophical Essays ( = Historica minora. Vol. 2). Böhlau, Cologne et al 2002, ISBN 3-412-16501-8.
  • Apseudestata. Aphorisms on the logic of life. BWV - Berlin scientific -Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8305-1190-6.
  • Small world history. Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-50821-9 (several editions, most recently: 4th Edition ( Fischer = 16721 ) Fischer -Taschenbuch -Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-596-16721-0. . ).
  • Seven Seals. Essays on Cultural History ( Historica = minora. Vol. 3). Böhlau, Cologne et al 2005, ISBN 3-412-20305- X.
  • As editor with Andreas Heinrich Goltz and Snake Schoningen: Theodor Mommsen. Science and politics in the 19th century. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and others 2005, ISBN 3-11-017766-8.
  • About the Germans. A small cultural history. Propylaea -Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-549-07294-3 ( third, revised edition. Ibid. 2009).
  • Alexander the Great. Life and legend. Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59085-6.
  • It could have turned out differently. Turning points in German history. Propylaea -Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-549-07368-1.
  • Philosophy of history. From ancient times to the present. Böhlau, Cologne, inter alia, 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20757-1.
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