Alexander Rubel (b. 27 December 1969) is a

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n historian of the

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. Alexander Rubel studied

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and

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at the

University of Konstanz The University of Konstanz (german: Universität Konstanz) is a university in the city of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its main campus was opened on the Gießberg in 1972 after being founded in 1966. The university is Germany's ...

. He was a researcher at the Department of Ancient History of the University of Konstanz. In 2000 he relocated to

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, Romania, as Director of the Iași branch of the

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. He became a DAAD lecturer at the

Alexandru Ioan Cuza University The Alexandru Ioan Cuza University (Romanian: ''Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza"''; acronym: UAIC) is a public university located in Iași, Romania. Founded by an 1860 decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza, under whom the former Academia Mih ...

. He is presently the director of the German Cultural Center in Iași., researcher at and Director of the

Iași Institute of Archaeology The Iași Institute of Archaeology ( ro, Institutul de Arheologie Iași; abbreviation: IAI) is an institution of research in the field of archaeology under the auspices of the Romanian Academy. The institute was founded in 1990 in Iași, when the a ...

Selected works

* ''Stadt in Angst. Religion und Politik in Athen während des Peloponnesischen Krieges'', Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2000, * ''Rumänien in Europa. Geschichte, Kultur, Politik'', Hartung-Gorre & Editura Univ. „Alexandru Ioan Cuza“, Konstanz-Iași 2002, und * With Cătălin Turliuc: ''Totalitarism. Ideologie şi realitate socială în România şi RDG = Totalitarismus'', Editura Univ. „Alexandru Ioan Cuza“, Iași 2006, und * With Andrei Corbea-Hoişie: ''„Czernowitz bei Sadagora“. Identitäten und kulturelles Gedächtnis im mitteleuropäischen Raum'', Hartung-Gorre & Editura Univ. „Alexandru Ioan Cuza“, Konstanz-Iași 2006, , , and * ''Friedrich Schiller zwischen Historisierung und Aktualisierung. Akten eines Kolloquiums in Jassy anlässlich des 250. Geburtstags des Dichters am 10. November 2009'', Hartung-Gorre & Editura Univ. „Alexandru Ioan Cuza“, Konstanz und Iași 2011, und * ''Die Griechen. Kultur und Geschichte in klassischer und archaischer Zeit'', Marix Verlag, Wiesbaden 2012, * With Iulia Dumitrache, ''Imperium und Romanisierung. Neue Forschungsansätze aus Ost und West zu Ausübung, Transformation und Akzeptanz von Herrschaft im Römischen Reich, Konstanz, Hartung-Gorre Verlag 2013, * ''Fear and Loathing in Ancient Athens. Religion and Politics during the Peloponnesian War'', Durham, Acumen Publishing 2014, * ''Religion und Kult der Germanen'',

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, Stuttgart 2015,

References

1969 births Living people Romanian archaeologists 21st-century Romanian historians Romanian philosophers 20th-century German archaeologists 20th-century German historians German male writers 20th-century German philosophers 21st-century German philosophers Academic staff of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University University of Konstanz alumni 21st-century German archaeologists {{Germany-academic-bio-stub