Henning Börm (born 1974 in

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) is a

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historian. Börm studied at the

University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, (, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a public research university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in 1665 as the ''Academia Holsator ...

, where he passed his

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in February 2002. From 2003 to 2004, he worked at the Seminar for Ancient History at the

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, and from 2004 to 2008 at the Department of Classics at Kiel University as a research assistant to Peter Weiß. He received his doctorate there in 2006 with a thesis, supervised by

Josef Wiesehöfer Josef Wiesehöfer (born April 5, 1951 in Wickede, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German classical scholar and former professor of Ancient history at the Department of Classics of the University of Kiel. Wiesehöfer obtained his doctorate at the Un ...

, on the late antique historian

Procopius of Caesarea Procopius of Caesarea (; ''Prokópios ho Kaisareús''; ; – 565) was a prominent late antique Greek scholar and historian from Caesarea Maritima. Accompanying the Roman general Belisarius in Emperor Justinian's wars, Procopius became the pr ...

and Roman-

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relations. In 2008, he became a research assistant at the

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, and after completing his

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with a monograph on ''stasis'' during the

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in 2018 he was accepted into the Heisenberg Programme of the

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. From 2020 to 2022, Börm was

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of Ancient History at the

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. Since 2022, he has been a professor at the

University of Rostock The University of Rostock () is a public university located in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Founded in 1419, it is the third-oldest university in Germany. It is the oldest university in continental northern Europe and the Baltic Se ...

; in 2024, he taught as a visiting lecturer at the

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. Börm’s research focuses on both

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and

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topics, specialising in particular in the history of the Mediterranean world in the

and

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. In 2013 he published a textbook on the

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. His main research interests are ancient monarchies,

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, and

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s in antiquity. He is an ordinary member of the

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Publications

Monographs * ''Mordende Mitbürger. Stasis und Bürgerkrieg in griechischen Poleis des Hellenismus'' (= ''Historia-Einzelschriften.'' 258). Steiner, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-515-12311-2. * ''Westrom. Von Honorius bis Justinian''. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-17-033216-4. * ''Prokop und die Perser. Untersuchungen zu den römisch-sasanidischen Kontakten in der ausgehenden Spätantike''. Steiner, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-515-09052-0. Edited volumes * with Ulrich Gotter and Wolfgang Havener: ''A culture of civil war? Bellum civile and political communication in late Republican Rome''. Steiner, Stuttgart 2023, ISBN 978-3-515-13401-9. * with

Nino Luraghi Nino Luraghi (born 30 November 1964) is an Italian historian of ancient Greece, who holds the Wykeham Professorship of Ancient History at Oxford University. Life Luraghi is the son of (1921–2012), an Italian resistance fighter and historian. ...

: ''The Polis in the Hellenistic World''. Steiner, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-515-12020-3. * with

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and Marco Mattheis: ''Civil War in Ancient Greece and Rome. Contexts of Disintegration and Reintegration''. Steiner, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-515-11224-6. * with Carsten Binder and Andreas Luther: ''Diwan. Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean.'' Wellem, Duisburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-941820-24-1. * ''Antimonarchic Discourse in Antiquity''. Steiner, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-515-11095-2. * with

: ''Commutatio et contentio. Studies in the Late Roman, Sasanian, and Early Islamic Near East.'' Wellem, Düsseldorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-941820-03-6. * with Norbert Ehrhardt and Josef Wiesehöfer: ''Monumentum et instrumentum inscriptum. Beschriftete Objekte aus Kaiserzeit und Spätantike als historische Zeugnisse.'' Steiner, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-515-09239-5.

Weblinks

Homepage at the University of Rostock

Henning Börm at ''academia.edu''

References

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