Uwe Walter


Uwe Walter is a German historian specialising in ancient history.
Walter studied history, Latin and Greek at Göttingen und Erlangen from 1983. In 1992 he received a doctorate from Göttingen with a work on citizen rights in Archaic Greece. He subsequently completed a teaching certificate and was employed until 1997 in the school system. In that year he was appointed as a senior instructor in the faculty of the department of ancient history at the Institute for Ancient World Studies at the University of Cologne. In 2001 he received a research grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation and he was habilitated in 2003 at Cologne with a work on the Historical culture of the Roman Republic. In 2004 he was appointed Professor of General History with special consideration of ancient history at Bielefeld University. He refused appointments at Mainz University and Göttingen University.
Walter mainly focusses on Greek history in the archaic and classical periods, the Roman Republic, ancient historiography and science. As of 2010 he is an editor of Historische Zeitschrift. From 2009 to 2012 he produced a blog, "Antike und Abendland" for FAZ.
Walter remains closely linked to the school system. He worked in the Union of German History Teachers and is an editor of the union's journal geschichte für heute.

Selected publications

An der Polis teilhaben. Bürgerstaat und Zugehörigkeit im Archaischen Griechenland . Stuttgart 1993,.
  • as editor M. Valerius Martialis Epigramme . Schöningh, Paderborn 1996..Abitur-Wissen Geschichte: Die Antike . Stark, Freising 2000, 2nd Edition 2004,.
  • Editor with Hans Beck: Die Frühen Römischen Historiker I. Von Fabius Pictor bis Cn. Gellius . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2001, .
  • Editor with Hans Beck: Die Frühen Römischen Historiker II. Von Coelius Antipater bis Pomponius Atticus . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2004,.Memoria und res publica. Zur Geschichtskultur der römischen Republik . Verlag Antike, Frankfurt 2004,.
  • with Markus Sehlmeyer. Unberührt von jedem Umbruch? Der Althistoriker Ernst Hohl zwischen Kaiserreich und früher DDR . Verlag Antike, Frankfurt 2005,.
  • with Peter Scholz. Fragmente römischer Memoiren . Studien zur alten Geschichte, vol. 18. Verlag Antike, Heidelberg 2013,.Politische Ordnung in der Römischen Republik . Oldenbourg, Berlin/Boston 2017,.Antike über den Tag hinaus: Bücher - Köpfe - Themen . Rezeption der Antike, vol. 5. Verlag Antike, Heidelberg 2017,.
  • with Raimund Schulz. Griechische Geschichte ca. 800–322 v. Chr. . 2 volumes. De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2022,.Hellas und das große Ganze. Die alten Griechen in „Weltgeschichten“ zwischen Geschichtswissenschaft, Buchverlagen und historischer Bildung . Studien zur alten Geschichte, vol. 36. Verlag Antike, Göttingen 2023,.