Waldemar Heckel (born 1949) is a Canadian historian. Heckel was born in

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, Germany in 1949. He attained his master's degree in 1973 from

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, and earned his doctorate in 1978 at the

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. His dissertation on the "marshals" of Alexander the Great also formed the basis for his 1992 work on this subject. Heckel is internationally regarded as a researcher on

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, and has published numerous works on this. Other focal points of his research are ancient Greek history and ancient Greek warfare. Until his retirement in late 2013, Heckel taught as a professor of ancient history at the

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Selected publications

Monographs

*''The Conquests of Alexander the Great''. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007. *''Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great. Prosopography of Alexander's empire''. Blackwell, 2006. *''The Marshals of Alexander's empire''. Routledge, 1992; 2nd ed., ''Alexander’s Marshals: A Study of the Makedonian Aristocracy and the Politics of Military Leadership'', 2016. *''The Last Days and Testament of Alexander the Great: A Prosopographic Study''. Stuttgart: Steiner, 1988.

Commentary and translation

*''Livy: The Dawn of the Roman Empire (Books 31-40)''. Translated by JC Yardley, comment by Waldemar Heckel. Oxford University Press, 2000. *''Justin: Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus''. Volume I, Books 11-12: Alexander the Great, 1997; Volume II: Books 13-15: The Successors to Alexander the Great'', 2011. Translated by JC Yardley, comment by Waldemar Heckel. Oxford Univ. Press. *''Quintus Curtius Rufus: The History of Alexander.'' Translated by JC Yardley, with introduction, notes and commentary by Waldemar Heckel. Penguin, 1984; corrected edition 2001 (several reprints).

Edited volumes

*''Alexander the Great. A New History''. Edited with Lawrence A. Tritle. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. *''Alexander the Great. Historical Sources in Translation''. Edited with John C. Yardley. Blackwell, 2004. *''Crossroads of History: The Age of Alexander''. Edited with Lawrence A. Tritle. Regina Books, 2003. *''Ancient Coins of the Graeco-Roman World: The Nickle Numismatic Papers''. Edited with Richard Sullivan. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 1984.Reviews of ''Ancient Coins of the Graeco-Roman World'':

References

External links

Homepage at the University of Calgary
{{DEFAULTSORT:Heckel, Waldemar 20th-century Canadian historians Historians of antiquity 1949 births Living people People from Bad Königshofen German emigrants to Canada McMaster University alumni 21st-century Canadian historians