Géza Alföldy#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1070 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 1991 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Géza Alföldy passed away November 6, 2011.
Positions held
- 2002 - 2005 substitute professor
- 2002 professor emeritus
- 1975 Professor for Ancient History, University of Heidelberg
- 1970-1975 Professor of Ancient History, Ruhr University Bochum
- 1970 Professor, University of Bonn
- 1968-1970 University lecturer, University of Bonn
- 1966 habilitation at the University of Bonn
- 1965-1968 employee at the Bonn Rhenanian State Museum
- 1960-1965 assistant professor, Institute for Ancient History, University of Budapest
- 1957-1960 employment at the Budapest City Museum
Fields of Scholarship
- History and epigraphy of the Roman Empire
- Roman social, military and administrative history
- History of the Roman provinces
- Historiography of the Roman imperial era and late antiquity
- Roman prosopography
Honours and Awards
- 1988 Doctor honoris causa, Autonomous University of Barcelona
- 1992 Doctor honoris causa, University of Pécs
- 1992 Doctor et professor honoris causa, Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest
- 1996 Doctor honoris causa, University of Lyon III
- 2002 Doctor honoris causa, University of Bologna
- 2004 Doctor honoris causa, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
- 2005 Doctor honoris causa, University of Debrecen
- 2008 Doctor honoris causa, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona
- Hungarian Archaeology and Art History Society, Kuzsinszky Medal, 1965 (the medal could not be awarded at that time because of Alföldy's emigration out of Hungary; it was awarded in 1992)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 1986
- Medal of the University Central of Barcelona, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of Tarragona, 1988
- Max Planck Research Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Max Planck Society (obtained together with Silvio Panciera, University of Rome, 1992
- Institut d'Estudis Catalans (Barcelona), Premi Internacional Catalònia de 1997, 1997
- Centro Segoviano, Premios "Tierra de Segovia: sus hijos y sus obras": Premio Andrés Laguna, 1997
- Commemorative insignia of Rome, 1997
- Commemorative insignia of the President of the Hungarian Republic "Nagy Imre" for "prominent work in support of the spirit of the Revolution of 1956", 1997
- Medal of the University of A Coruña – Ferrol, 1998
- Medal of the University of La Rioja, Logroño, 2000
- Medal of the University of Valladolid, 2000
- Creu de San Jordi (Cross of Saint George) of the Catalonian government, 2001
- Verdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit) of the 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2002
- University Medal of the University of Heidelberg, 2006 (for his commitment to international exchange)
