Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Hans-Joachim Gehrke
Hans-Joachim Gehrke studied History, Classical Philology, Philosophy and Educational Science at the University of Göttingen where he received his PhD and Habilitation in Ancient History. Ancient History was his area of specialization in research and teaching at several universities in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and, especially, in Freiburg. He was involved in the planning and organization of several international and interdisciplinary study programs. Gehrke is, inter alia, member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Academia Europaea, and the American Institute of Archaeology. During the last years, he was President of the globally active German Archaeological Institute. In 2017, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Cologne, in 2019 an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens.
As Director of Outreach, Hans-Joachim Gehrke connects the college to key people and institutions in the national and international scientific community. He also liaises with funding agencies, foundations, and potential donors and chairs the College’s Advisory Board.
A detailed CV can be found here.
Current Research Projects:
- ΑΡΧΑΙΟΣ ΝΕΩΣ. Neue Studien zur archaischen Architektur auf der Akropolis von Athen (The Old Temple. New studies on the archaic architecture of the Athenian Acropolis) – a project on the Acropolis, especially its archaic and early classical architectures and developments as well as its connections to the political history of the polis Athens – the cradle of Western Civilization and the birthplace of democracy.
- The multidimensional space of Olympia (Greece), funded by the DFG: Interdisciplinary project (History, Archaeology, Earth Sciences) in collaboration with Franziska Lang (TU Darmstadt), Birgitta Eder (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna), Erophili Kolia (Greek Archaeological Service, 7th Ephory), Andreas Vött (University of Mainz)
- Edition of the Fragments of Ancient Greek Geographers (Jacoby FGrHist V, Brill Publisher, Leiden)
More information here.
- (editor) Geschichte der Welt. Die Welt vor 600: Frühe Zivilisationen, München 22024, C.H. Beck (1082 S.) (also: Making Civilizations. The World before 600, Cambridge, MA 2020, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
- The Greeks and their Histories: Myth, History, and Society, Cambridge 2022, Cambridge University Press (VIII. 166 p.)
- (with B. Eder, E.-I. Kolia, F. Lang, L. Obrocki, A. Vött) A Multi-dimensional Space: Olympia and its Environs, in: Athenische Mitteilungen 134, 2019 [2023], 97–195
- (with P. Sapirstein, Corcyra, in: P. Cartledge and P. Christeson (eds.), The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World. Volume I: Argos to Corcyra, Oxford 2024 (Oxford University Press), 488–607
- Bürgerkriege und Epheben. Prinzipien und Praktiken bürgerlicher Sozialisation im antiken Griechenland, Stuttgart 2024, Kröner Verlag (120 S.)
- (editor, together with Felix Wiedemann und Kerstin P. Hofmann) “Vom Wandern der Völker”. Zur Verknüpfung von Raum und Identität in Migrationserzählungen (Berlin Studies of the Ancient World 41), Berlin 2017, Topoi Excellence Cluster (370 S.)
- Fragmentary Evidence and the Whole of History, in: Thomas Derda / Jennifer Hilder / Jan Kwapisc (Hrsg.), Fragments, Holes, and Wholes. Reconstructing the Ancient World in Theory and Practice (The Journal of Juristic Papyrology, Supplement 30), Warschau 2017, 41–51
See here.