Hartmut Leppin

Projects and positions at the research center
Principal Investigator

Project management: “Religious Violence” in Historical Perspective | Research Focus 3 – Fragmented Orders: Social Cohesion under Conditions of Radical Plurality

Funding period 2012-2017
Project management: Imperial Politics and Spaces of Religions in the 3rd Century | Research Field 2

Funding period 2007-2012
Project management: Biblical Justification Narratives in Late Antique Environment – the Role of Imperial Women | Research Field 2

Subject areas
History

Main research
Christianity, Greek history

• Biografische Angaben

  2021-23: Vice Dean of the Department of Philosophy and History

  Since 2021: Long-term project “A Historical and Theological Commentary on John of
  Ephesus”

  2021: “Humanities international” prize

  Since 2020: Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Historische Kolleg

  2019-2022: Board member at the Leibniz ScienceCampus “Byzantium between
  Orient and Occident” Mainz / Frankfurt

  2019: Member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.)

  Member of the Accademia Ambrosiana

  Erwin Stein Prize

  2017/8: Member of Panel SH 6 of the ERC

  2015/6: Fellow of the Faculty of Classics and Robinson College in Cambridge / UK

  Since 2015: Member of the Board of Trustees of the Historisches Kolleg München

  Since 2015: Chair of joint DFG-NCN and DFG-ANR meetings for the entire field of humanities and social sciences

  2015-2023: Head of the Leibniz Prize project “Polyphony of Late Antique Christianity”

  2015-2018: Sub-project leader in the CRC 1095 “Discourses of Weakness and Resource Regimes”

  2015-2016: Founding spokesperson of the SFB 1095 “Discourses of Weakness and
  Resource Regimes”

  2015: Leibniz Prize

  2014-2021: Involved in the “Personnel Decisions” research group

  Since 2013: Member of the selection committee for the Karl Christ Prize

  Since 2012: Involved in the GK “Theology as Science”

  Since 2011: Member of the advisory board of Ceraneum (Lodz)

  2011: Approval of a Koselleck project “Christianizations in the Roman
  Empire”

  Since 2008: Various ad hoc reviews for the DFG (SFBs, FORs, KFGs, etc.)

  2008-2016: Member of the Scientific Commission of the Union of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities

  2008-2016: Member of the review board “Ancient Cultures” at the DFG

  Since 2008: Full member of the German Archaeological Institute (Berlin)

  Liaison lecturer of the German National Academic Foundation

  2008: Call to the University of Cologne (rejected)

  Since 2007: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Frobenius Institute (Frankfurt / Main)

  2007-2019: Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence “Formation of normative
  orders”

  2007-2017: Member of the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy (Munich)

  2007-2011: Senator of the Goethe University

  2007: Member of the German Archaeological Institute

  Appointment at Humboldt University Berlin (rejected)

  2005-2014: Involved in the IGK “Political Communication from Antiquity to the Present”

  2005-2008: Project leader in the research group “Knowledge culture and social change”

  2005-2007: Dean of the Department of Philosophy and History

  Since 2001: Professor (C 4 / W 3) of Ancient History in Frankfurt / Main

  2001: Call to the University of Hanover (rejected)

  1997-2001: Heisenberg-Stipendium

  1996/97: Feodor Lynen Scholarship

  1995/6: Representative of the Chair of Ancient History Greifswald

  1995: Habilitation in Ancient History, FU Berlin

  1990-1995: Research assistant at FU Berlin

  1990: Dr. phil., Marburg

  1989: Scholarship from the DAAD

  1988: 1st state examination, Marburg

  1982-1988: Studied history, Latin and Greek in Marburg, Heidelberg and Pavia

  Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation

• Publikationen

  Leppin, Hartmut, 2021: Finding a Common Cause. Fourth Century Discourses on Rulership, in: Philip Forness / Alexandra Hasse-Ungeheuer / Hartmut Leppin (Hg.), The Good Christian Ruler in the First Millennium: Views from the Mediterranean World and Neighbouring Regions (Millennium Studies 92), Berlin / Boston, 39-64.

  Leppin, Hartmut, 2022: Paradoxe der Parrhesie. Eine antike Wortgeschichte, Tübingen.

  Leppin, Hartmut, 2023: The Early Christians. From the Beginnings to Constantine. Cambridge.

  Leppin, Hartmut, 2024: Frühchristliche Gräber und soziale Anerkennung, ZThK 121, 19-47.

  Leppin, Hartmut 2025: From Constantine to Justinian, in: Joëlle Rollo-Koster u.a. (Hg.), The Papacy I. Two Swords, Cambridge, 56-80.

  Leppin, Hartmut 2025: Multilingualität und Recht in der Spätantike, Rechtsgeschichte / Legal History 33, 18-35.