Farewell lecture by Professor Heinrich Schlange-Schöningen on 17 July

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Born in Lüneburg in 1960, Heinrich Schlange-Schöningen studied history from 1982 to 1987, religious studies and Philosophy in Berlin and Bordeaux, obtained his Maîtrise d’Histoire in Bordeaux in 1988, and then worked as an academic research associate specialising in Late Antiquity at the Free University of Berlin, where he was awarded his doctorate in 1993 with a thesis on ‘The Empire and the Education System in Late Antique Constantinople’. This was followed by a period as a research assistant at the Chair of Roman History in Berlin, his habilitation in 2002 on ‘Roman Society in Galen: Biography and Social History’, a research fellowship in 2004 at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, USA, and his appointment as a Privatdozent in Ancient History at the Free University of Berlin.

In 2006, Heinrich Schlange-Schöningen accepted an offer of a professorship at Saarland University; in 2009, he declined the offer of the Chair of Ancient History at the University of Mannheim and subsequently held a W3 professorship in Saarbrücken. He was particularly committed to academic self-governance, not only as a long-standing member of the Faculty Council over several terms of office, but also as Dean of Studies for the Faculty of Humanities I from 2010 to 2014 and as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities from 2018 to 2020.

His multifaceted body of work comprises some 150 publications to date. In addition to the aforementioned theses and two biographies on Jerome and Augustus, Professor Schlange-Schöningen has contributed to numerous edited volumes on the era of Diocletian and Constantine the Great, on Theodor Mommsen and on the history of ancient history as a discipline, in some cases taking the lead.

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