Christoph Schäfer#
| Membership Number: | 3413 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.antike-multimedial.de/201.0.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2008 Full Professor at the University of Trier
- 2003 - 2008 Full Professor at the University of Hamburg
- 1995 - 2003 Academic council resp. Senior researcher (Akademischer Rat resp. Oberrat) at the university chair for Ancient History at the University of Regensburg
- 1993 - 1995 Lecturer at the University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg
- 1991 - 1995 Research assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Department of Ancient History of the University of Hamburg
- 1991 Research assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Institute of bibliology of the University of Mayence
Fields of Scholarship
- Ancient history- hellenistic period
- Research focus
- Hellenism, especially the legitimization of sovereignty of the successors of Alexander the Great
- Social and economic history of the Late Republic and the Imperial Era
- History of Late Antiquity until migration
- Multimedia presentation of knowledge transfer in arts
- Experimental Archaeology, particularly in the know-how area of ancient shipping
Honours and Awards
- June 22nd 2006 Comenius EduMedia Award for the DVD production "Romans and Teutons - confrontation and integration"
- Since 2007 Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Europäische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste)
