Adrian S. Erben, born 1991 in Aschaffenburg, Germany.

Academic career

Since April 2023
University of Bamberg, Chair of Ancient History.
Research fellow.

April 2019 – March 2023 
University of Würzburg, Chair of Ancient History.
Research fellow in DFG Research Unit 2757 (‘Local Self-Governance in the context of weak statehood in Antiquity and the Modern Era’).

October 2016 – September 2017
University of Würzburg, Martin von Wagner-Museum, Antiquities Collection.
Research assistant for the cataloguing of the Wellhöfer Coin Collection.

September 2015 – March 2019
University of Würzburg, Chair of Ancient History.
Research assistant and tutor.

February 2015 – March 2015
University of Würzburg, Chair of German Linguistics, Unterfränkisches Dialektinstitut.
Student assistant.

 

Academic education

Since April 2019
University of Würzburg.
Doctoral student in Ancient History.
Working title: Lokale Selbstorganisierung, urbane Zivilgesellschaft und kirchliche Geltungsansprüche: Antiocheia im Römischen Reich (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rene Pfeilschifter).

October 2016 – November 2018
University of Würzburg.
Master of Arts 120 (History).
Masterthesis: Das Religionsgespräch von 571 (Primary supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rene Pfeilschifter / Secondary supervisor: PD Dr. Jorit Wintjes).

April 2014 – September 2017
University of Würzburg.
Bachelor of Arts 85 (History/German Language and Literature).
Bachelorthesis: Die Auswirkungen des Todes des Germanicus auf die römischen Eliten (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rene Pfeilschifter).

October 2011 – June 2020
University of Würzburg.
First Staatsexamen (high school teaching profession) in History and German.

 

Further training

2022
Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute.
Introduction to Syriac (online, led by: George Kiraz)

German Archaeological Institute, Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy Munich.
Fachwissenschaftlicher Kurs 2022: Roman Republican Inscriptions in Context (led by Prof. Dr. Harriet I. Flower) [successful application, withdrawn from participation]

2021
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Sommerschool Griechische Paläographie, Handschriftenkunde und digitale Editionswissenschaft (led by Dr. Annette von Stockhausen)

University of Würzburg, ProfiLehre/Service Centre for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (ZiLS).
Certificate Hochschullehre der Bayerischen Universitäten (basic level)
Certificate Hochschullehre der Bayerischen Universitäten (advanced level)

2020
German Archaeological Institute, Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy Munich.
Fachwissenschaftlicher Kurs 2020 [successful application, cancelled due to Covid 19 pandemic]

2019
German Archaeological Institute, Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy Munich.
Fachwissenschaftlicher Kurs 2019: Römische Herrschaft und Verwaltung im Lichte der Edikte und Episteln der praefecti Aegypti (led by Prof. Dr. Rudolf Haensch)

University of Würzburg, Würzburg Center for Ancient Studies (WAZ).
Excursion to Vienna

2018
Wirsberg-Gymnasium Würzburg.
Graecum

2017
University of Bamberg, Chair of Ancient History.
Block seminar Introduction to Palmyrene Epigraphy (led by Dr. Konstantin Klein)

2016
University of Würzburg, Department of Classical Philology.
Exkursion to the United Kingdom

University of Vienna, Department of Numismatics and Monetary History.
8th Numismatic Sommerschool (led by Prof. Dr. Reinhard Wolters / Prof. Dr. Hubert Emmerig)