Christian Habicht

Christian Habicht
Ancient History
Professor Emeritus
School of Historical Studies

Christian Habicht is among the leading historians of the Hellenistic period. He is an authority on Greek epigraphy and on the history of Athens in the centuries between the fall of the Athenian Empire and the establishment of the Roman Empire. He is the author of books on Hellenistic ruler-cults, on the Maccabees, on Cicero, and on Pausanias, as well as the editor of hundreds of previously unpublished inscriptions from the most important places in Greece and Asia Minor. His more than two hundred articles cover topics from the fifth century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. To a new bilingual edition of Polybius, he contributed the introduction and explanatory notes; the six volumes were published in 2010–12.

Universität Hamburg, D. Phil 1952; Universität Hamburg, Assistant Professor 1952–57, Privatdozent 1957–61; Philipps-Universität Marburg, Professor 1961–65; Universität Heidelberg, Professor 1965–73; Institute for Advanced Study, Member 1972–73, Professor 1973–98, Professor Emeritus 1998–; Academy of Athens, Member; Academy of Heidelberg, Member; American Philosophical Society, Member; Archaeological Society of Athens, Honorary Counsellor; British Academy, Corresponding Fellow; German Archaeological Institute, Member; University of California, Berkeley, Sather Professor 1982; Reuchlin Prize in the Humanities 1991; American Philosophical Society, Henry Allen Moe Prize 1996; London Hellenic Society, Criticos Prize 1997

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