Riess, Werner

LC control no.	no2001062640
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Personal name heading	Riess, Werner *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
See also	Employer: Universität Hamburg *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Birth date	1970-08-08
Place of birth	Altötting (Germany)
Affiliation	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Universität Hamburg
Profession or occupation	College teachers Classicists
Found in	Apuleius und die Räuber, 2001: t.p. (Werner Riess) The topography of violence in the Greco-Roman world, 2016: title page (edited by Werner Riess and Garrett G. Fagan) dust jacket (Werner Riess is chair of ancient history at the University of Hamburg) Wikipedia, 2 November 2016 (Werner Riess; Werner Riess (born 8 August 1970 at Altötting, Germany) is a German Ancient Historian; Riess studied History, German literature and language as well as Romance languages at the universities of Augsburg, Germany and Tours, France from 1990 through 1996; in 2000, he received his doctorate in Ancient History from the University of Heidelberg, Germany for a dissertation titled "Apuleius und die Räuber. Ein Beitrag zur historischen Kriminalitätsforschung;" his research interests include the cultural history of classical Athens, the social history of the Roman empire, the Second Sophistic (especially Apuleius) as well as forms of conflict, violence, and crime in Graeco-Roman antiquity; from 2004-2011, he was Assistant Professor then Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; he has been a Professor of Ancient History at the University of Hamburg since 2011)