Hartwin Brandt


Hartwin Brandt is a German ancient historian.
Hartwin Brandt studied history, German studies and Latin philology at the University of Kiel from 1979 to 1985. After his first Staatsexamen in 1985, he received his doctorate from Frank Kolb in 1986 and then his habilitation in 1991 from the University of Tübingen, where he was a research assistant from 1986 until 1992. Brandt was an acting professor at the University of Leipzig in 1992/3. Since 1993 he has been regular professor of ancient history, first at Chemnitz University of Technology and then since 2002 at the university of Bamberg.
In 2003/4 Brandt was Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter and he was a member of the board of directors of the Historians' Union from 2000 to 2006. He was Henkel Fellow and Visiting Professor at the Department of Classics at Brown University in Providence in 2006/7. In addition, Brandt has been speaker of the graduate college Generationenbewusstsein und Generationenkonflikte in Antike und Mittelalter since October 2004.

Research and Projects

Brandt's main areas of research are Late Antiquity, historiography of Late Antiquity, the investigation of special groups in Antiquity, and the history of Roman colonisation of Asia Minor.
  • Survey of the archaeological, epigraphic and historical development of the ancient polis of Pednelissos, supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through the research project Formen und Wege der Akkulturation im östlichen Mittelmeerraum und Schwarzmeergebiet in der Antike.
  • Editor of the supplements of the journal Klio, together with Martin Jehne.
  • Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft: Geschichte der Römischen Kaiserzeit (New version of the old volume, which was written by Hermann Bengtson.

    Selected works

  • Zeitkritik in der Spätantike. Untersuchungen zu den Reformvorschlägen des Anonymus De rebus bellicis . C. H. Beck, München 1988, .
  • Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft Pamphyliens und Pisidiens im Altertum . Habelt, Bonn 1992, .
  • Kommentar zur Vita Maximi et Balbini der Historia Augusta . Habelt, Bonn 1996,.
  • Geschichte der römischen Kaiserzeit. Von Diokletian und Konstantin bis zum Ende der konstantinischen Dynastie. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1998,.
  • Das Ende der Antike. Geschichte des spätrömischen Reiches.. C. H. Beck, München 2001, .
  • "Wird auch silbern mein Haar." Eine Geschichte des Alters in der Antike.. C. H. Beck, München 2002,.
  • Die Provinz Lycia et Pamphylia. Zabern, Mainz 2005, .
  • Konstantin der Große. Der erste christliche Kaiser. Eine Biographie.. C. H. Beck, München 2006, .
  • Am Ende des Lebens. Alter, Tod und Suizid in der Antike . C. H. Beck, München 2010,.