Hans Beck | |
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Born | 22 April 1969 |
Nationality | German, Canadian |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Erlangen–Nuremberg University of Kent at Canterbury St Edmund's College, Cambridge |
Thesis | Polis und Koinon: Untersuchungen zur Geschichte und Struktur der griechischen Bundesstaaten im 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classical studies |
Institutions | University of Cologne Center for Hellenic Studies Goethe University Frankfurt McGill University [1] University of Münster [2] |
Website | www |
Hans Beck (born 22 April 1969 in Werneck) is a German and Canadian scholar in the field of Classical Studies.
Hans Beck received his PhD in Ancient History from University of Erlangen–Nuremberg in 1996 with a thesis on Polis und Koinon. Untersuchungen zur Geschichte und Struktur der griechischen Bundesstaaten im 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Polis and Koinon:Investigations in the History and Structure of Greek Federal States in the 4th Century BC). In 1997 he was hired to the position of assistant professor at Cologne University. In 2001-2002 he was a Junior Research Fellow in residence at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC. He achieved his Habilitation in Cologne in 2003 with a work entitled Karriere und Hierarchie. Die römische Aristokratie und die Anfänge des cursus honorum in der mittleren Republik (Career and Hierarchy:The Roman Aristocracy and the Origins of the cursus honorum in the Middle Republic) and then moved on to Frankfurt University in 2004,where he held a Heisenberg Fellowship,awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. In 2005 he was hired to the position of Professor of Ancient Greek History and John MacNaughon Chair of Classics at McGill University,where he also served as Director of Classical Studies (2007 to 2016). In 2018 he accepted the offer to take up the professorship and chair in Greek History at University of Münster,which is his current employment. [2] [3] He remains affiliated with McGill University as adjunct professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies. [1]
Beck specializes in the history and culture of the ancient Greek world,with a thematic focus on localism and the local,polis governance,and federalism.[ citation needed ] His research also extends to the study of the political culture of ancient Rome,the exercise of aristocratic rule in antiquity,and ancient historiography. He contributed many entries to Brill's New Pauly and Brill’s New Jacoby,for which he has also served on the editorial board. He is co-editor of Teiresias Journal Online and Teiresias Supplements Online,Hermes ,Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie,and the Cambridge University Press series Antiquity in Global Context.[ citation needed ] In 2015,he was awarded the Anneliese Maier Research Prize of the Humboldt Foundation.[ citation needed ] He was elected into the Royal Society of Canada in 2018 and appointed a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute in 2020.[ citation needed ]
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