Antiquity
Dr. Ernst Baltrusch
Professor of Ancient History
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich Meinecke Institute
Ancient History with a Focus on Roman History
Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Olympic games in antiquity
- Athens
- Rome
- Sparta
- Jewish life in antiquity
Dr. Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum
Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Ancient Near East
- Assyrians
- Babylonians
- Sumerians
- Akkadians
- Israel
- Syria
- Iraq
- Middle East
- Astronomy
- Astrology
- Science
- Early states
- School and education in pre-modern societies
- History of knowledge
- Oldest writing
- Decipherment
- Nimrud
- Nineveh
- Libraries
- Cuneiform
- Sumerian
- Akkadian
- Ancient Near East, Near East, Middle East: History and cultural history
- 4. - 1st millennium BC
- History of the influences of the Ancient Near East to the present day
- Ancient Near East and Europe: mythology
Dr. Stefan Esders
Professor of History
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich Meinecke Institute
History of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Late Antiquity
- Early Middle Ages
Dr. Johanna Fabricius
Professor of Classical Archaeology
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Classical Archaeology
Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Greek archaeology (main focus: Classical and Hellenistic periods)
- Greek and Roman sculpture
- Visual culture of Greek and Roman antiquity
- Necropolis research
- Hellenistic cities of Eastern Greece
- Gender studies
- Ancient history of the body
- Archaeology and cognitive linguistics
- Cast collection
Dr. Klaus Geus
Professor of Ancient History
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich Meinecke Institute
Historical Geography of the Ancient Mediterranean
Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Ancient geography and ancient astronomy
- Ptolemy and Eratosthenes
- Ancient history of science
- North and East Africa in antiquity
- Armenia in ancient times
Prof. Dr. Reimund Leicht
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Jewish Studies
Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin
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The interviews can be conducted in Hebrew.
Areas of Expertise
- History of Judaism from antiquity to modern times
- Jewish philosophy in the Islamic-Arabic region and in Europe
- Christian Kabbalah (Johannes Reuchlin)
- Science of Judaism
- History of the Hebrew language
- History of the sciences surrounding Judaism
Prof. Dr. Hubert Mara
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Computational Ancient Studies (CompAS)
Forensic Computational Geometry Laboratory (FCGL)
Fabeckstr. 23-24, 14195 Berlin
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The interviews are available in German and English.
Areas of Expertise
- Computer Science
- Machine Learning
- 3D Computer Vision
- Archaeoinformatics
- Digitality in the humanities and cultural sciences
- Digital Humanitiesilable in German and English
Dr. Gyburg Uhlmann
Professor of Greek Language and Literature
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of Greek and Latin Languages and Literatures
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Ancient literature and philosophy
- Homer
- Tragedy
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Philosophy of late antiquity (Platonism and Aristotelianism)
- Ancient philosophy of science
- History of education (liberal arts)
- Literary theory (ancient and modern)
- Modern antiquity images
- Effective history of antiquity