Uwe Walter (born 23 October 1962 in

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) is a German

ancient historian Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history to as far as late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the Sumerian cuneiform script. Ancient history cove ...

. Walter studied history,

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

and

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at Göttingen und Erlangen from 1983. In 1992 he received a doctorate from

Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, t ...

with a work on citizen rights in

Archaic Greece Archaic Greece was the period in Greek history lasting from circa 800 BC to the second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, following the Greek Dark Ages and succeeded by the Classical period. In the archaic period, Greeks settled across the ...

. He subsequently completed a teaching certificate and was employed until 1997 in the school system. In that year he was appointed as a senior instructor in the faculty of the department of ancient history at the Institute for Ancient World Studies at the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne (german: Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1388 and is one of the most prestigious and research intensive universities in Germany. It was the sixth university to ...

. In 2001 he received a research grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation and he was

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in 2003 at Colonge with a work on the Historical culture of the Roman Republic. In 2004 he was appointed Professor of General History with special consideration of ancient history at

Bielefeld University Bielefeld University (german: Universität Bielefeld) is a university in Bielefeld, Germany. Founded in 1969, it is one of the country's newer universities, and considers itself a "reform" university, following a different style of organization ...

. He refused appointments at

Mainz University The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (german: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. With approximately 32,000 st ...

(2009) and Göttingen University (2010). Walter mainly focusses on Greek history in the archaic and classical periods, the Roman Republic, ancient historiography and

science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...

. As of 2010 he is an editor of ''

Historische Zeitschrift ''Historische Zeitschrift'', founded in 1859 by Heinrich von Sybel is considered to be the first and for a time the foremost historical journal. The creation of this journal inspired Gabriel Monod to found the French ''Revue historique'' in 1876 ...

''. From 2009 to 2012 he produced a blog, "Antike und Abendland" (Antiquity and the West) for FAZ. Walter remains closely linked to the school system. He worked in the Union of German History Teachers and is an editor of the union's journal '' geschichte für heute'' (history for today).

Selected publications

* ''An der Polis teilhaben. Bürgerstaat und Zugehörigkeit im Archaischen Griechenland'' (Taking Part in the

Polis ''Polis'' (, ; grc-gre, πόλις, ), plural ''poleis'' (, , ), literally means "city" in Greek. In Ancient Greece, it originally referred to an administrative and religious city center, as distinct from the rest of the city. Later, it also ...

. Citizen State and Belonging in Archaic Greece). Stuttgart 1993, . * as editor ''M. Valerius Martialis Epigramme'' (Epigrams of M. Valerius Martial. Schöningh, Paderborn 1996. . * ''Abitur-Wissen Geschichte: Die Antike'' (High School History: Antiquity). Stark, Freising 2000, 2nd Edition 2004, . * Editor with

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: ''Die Frühen Römischen Historiker I. Von Fabius Pictor bis Cn. Gellius'' (The Early Roman Historians I: From

Fabius Pictor Quintus Fabius Pictor (born BC, BC) was the earliest known Roman historian. His history, written in Greek and now mostly lost besides some surviving fragments, was highly influential on ancient writers and certainly participated in introducing Gre ...

to Gn.

Gellius Aulus Gellius (c. 125after 180 AD) was a Roman author and grammarian, who was probably born and certainly brought up in Rome. He was educated in Athens, after which he returned to Rome. He is famous for his ''Attic Nights'', a commonplace book, or ...

, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2001, ( Texte zur Forschung, Vol. 76) ** E-book edition 2003, 2nd revised edition 2005 () * Editor with Hans Beck: ''Die Frühen Römischen Historiker II. Von Coelius Antipater bis Pomponius Atticus'', Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2004, (Texte zur Forschung, Vol. 77) * ''Memoria und res publica. Zur Geschichtskultur der römischen Republik'' (Memoria and Res Publica: On Historical Culture of the Roman Republic). Verlag Antike, Frankfurt 2004, . * with Markus Sehlmeyer. ''Unberührt von jedem Umbruch? Der Althistoriker Ernst Hohl zwischen Kaiserreich und früher DDR'' (Untouched by any Upheaval? The Ancient Historian Ernst Hohl between

Empire An empire is a "political unit" made up of several territories and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) ex ...

and the Early

DDR DDR or ddr may refer to: *ddr, ISO 639-3 code for the Dhudhuroa language *DDr., title for a double doctorate in Germany *DDR, station code for Dadar railway station, Mumbai, India *' (German Democratic Republic), official name of the former East ...

). Verlag Antike, Frankfurt/M. 2005, . * as editor ''Gesetzgebung und politische Kultur in der römischen Republik'' (Legislation and Political Culture in the Roman Republic) (Studien zur Alten Geschichte 20), Heidelberg 2014.reviewed
by Peter Kritzinger at H-Soz-u-Kult

External links

*
Profile at Bielefeld University

"Antike und Abendland"
Blog on FAZ.NET

References

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