Klaus Bringmann
Klaus Bringmann ( born May 28, 1936 in Bad Wildungen ) is a German historian.
Klaus Bringmann studied from 1956 to 1962 history, classical philology and philosophy at the universities of Marburg and Munich. He received his doctorate in 1962 at the University of Marburg and his habilitation in 1969 at the University of Marburg with studies of the late Cicero. His teacher was Fritz Marburger Taeger, who did not live to complete his dissertation. The work was completed under the direction of Karl Christian. Since 1971, Bringmann taught Classics at the University of Marburg from 1973 and Ancient History at the Technical University of Darmstadt. From 1981 until his retirement in 2000 he taught as a professor of ancient history at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. In the years 1987/88 and 1993/94 he was a visiting scientist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Bringmann is a member of the German Archaeological Institute since 1988. He has been married since 1965 and has three sons.
The research priorities Bring 's lie in the Roman history of the Republic to Late Antiquity, the history of Hellenism, Jewish History in the Hellenistic and Roman times and the history of Christianity in the Roman Empire. In addition, he led, together with the Professor of Classical Archaeology Hans von Steuben the project " donations of Hellenistic rulers of Greek cities and sanctuaries ". Later, he was one of the leaders of the interdisciplinary research program " Knowledge Culture and Social Change ".
Writings
Font directory in: Jörn Kobes, Peter Scholz: Klaus Bringmann: Selected Writings, Frankfurt am Main 2001, pp. 379-383.
- Roman history. From the beginnings to late antiquity. C. H. Beck Verlag, Munich 1995; 10th edition 2008, ISBN 3-406-44812-7 (CH Beck Knowledge, 2012). Italian edition: Storia romana. Il Mulino, Bologna 1998, ISBN 88-15-06647-0.
- English translation: A History of the Roman Republic, Polity Press, Cambridge 2007, ISBN 0,745,633,714th
- Spanish Edition: Juliano, Editorial Herder, Barcelona 2006, ISBN 84-254-2427-5.
- Spanish Edition: Augusto, Herder Editorial: Barcelona 2008, ISBN 978-84-254-2533-2.