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Department of History

Nikolas Hächler

Nikolas Hächler, Dr.

Nikolas Hächler studied history, philosophy and political science at the University of Zurich, where he obtained his Master's degree in 2012 and his doctorate in 2017. A revised version of his doctoral thesis on the composition, functions and importance of the senatorial order during the 3rd century CE  has been published in 2019 by Brill. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich from 2017 to 2019 and has since been holder of a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) fellowship, in the course of which he has been visiting scholar at the universities of Vienna, Paris and Munich, respectively. Appointed to join the JustCity project in 2022, Nikolas will look into the problem of how Cicero's conception of justice was received, used and transmitted by what were his two most influential Christian successors, Lactantius, Ambrose and Augustine.

 

Research interests

  • Social, economic and cultural history
  • History of political thought during the later Roman Empire and late antiquity
  • Pagan philosophy and its Christian reception 
  • Epigraphy and numismatics
  • Prosopographical and historical network research
  • Historical anthropology

 

Publications (selection)

Monographs and anthologies

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  • Zusammen mit Prof. Dr. Marietta Horster: The Impact of the Roman Empire on Landscapes. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop of the International Network "Impact of Empire" (Mainz, June 12-15, 2019), Leiden, Boston 2021 (Impact of Empire 41).
  • Zusammen mit Prof. Dr. Beat Näf und Prof. Dr. Peter-Andrew Schwarz: Mauern gegen Migration? Spätrömische Strategie, der Hochrhein-Limes und die Fortifikationen der Maxima Sequanorum - eine Auswertung der Quellenzeugnisse, Regensburg 2020.
  • Kontinuität und Wandel des Senatorenstandes im Zeitalter der Soldatenkaiser. Prosopographische Untersuchungen zu Zusammensetzung, Funktion und Bedeutung des ordo amplissimus zwischen 235-284 n. Chr., Leiden, Boston 2019 (Impact of Empire 33).

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Articles in peer-reviewed conference-proceedings and anthologies

  • The "hammer of the aristocracy"? Diocletian's reign and its consequences for the amplissimus ordo, in: Filippo Carlà-Uhink / Christian Rollinger (Hg.): The Tetrarchy as Ideology. Reconfigurations and Representations of an Imperial Power, Stuttgart 2023 (Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien 64), 179-220.
  • Strategien der Kaiser Constantius II., Julian und Valentinian I. zur Sicherung gallischer Provinzen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Rhein-Main-Gebietes, in: Alexander Reis (Hg.): Das Rhein-Main-Gebiet in der Spätantike. Beiträge zur Archäologie und Geschichte. Akten der Tagung in Obernburg am Main vom 12.-13. April 2018, Büchenbach 2022, 7-29.
  • Zusammmen mit Prof. Dr. Marietta Horster: Le regard du vainqueur?, in: Marietta Horster / Nikolas Hächler (Hg.): The Impact of the Roman Empire on Landscapes. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop of the International Network "Impact of Empire" (Mainz, June 12-15, 2019), Leiden, Boston 2021 (Impact of Empire 41), 3-17.
  • Post hos nostra terra est. Mapping the Late Roman Ecumene with the Expositio totius mundi et gentium, in: Marietta Horster / Nikolas Hächler (Hg.): The Impact of the Roman Empire on Landscapes. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop of the International Network "Impact of Empire" (Mainz, June 12-15, 2019), Leiden, Boston 2021 (Impact of Empire 41), 263-280.

Reviews:

  • Anne-Valérie Pont: La fin de la cité grecque, Genf 2020 (École pratique des hautes études. Sciences historiques et philologiques 3. Hautes études du monde gréco-romain 57), in: Journal of Late Antiquity 16 (2), 2023, 558-561.
  • Sophia Bönisch-Meyer: Dialogangebote. Die Anrede des Kaisers jenseits der offiziellen Titulatur, in: Historische Zeitschrift  314 (1), 171-173.
  • James Howard-Johnston: The Last Great War of Antiquity, Oxford 2021, in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 115 (1), 2022, 375-379.

Co-editor:

  • Together with M. Aberson / J. Bartels / R. Frei-Stolba / A. Kolb: Epigraphica Helvetica, in: Museum Helveticum.

 Digital Humanities

for more publications, go to:

https://uzh.academia.edu/NikolasH%C3%A4chler

for the ERC project, go to:
thejustcity.org

 

Weiterführende Informationen

Contact

Universität Zürich
Historisches Seminar
Karl Schmid-Strasse 4
CH-8006 Zürich

Office: 

Culmannstrasse 1
CUB G02
CH-8006 Zurich