Jochen Bleicken

Jochen Bleicken (3 September 1926 in Westerland, Sylt 24 February 2005 in Hamburg) was a German professor of ancient history.

Biography

The son of a salesman, Bleicken studied from 1948 to 1954 history and classical philology at the universities of Kiel and Frankfurt. He wrote his doctorate at the chair of Alfred Heuß at Kiel in 1954 and after his habilitation in 1962 became a professor of history in Hamburg, Frankfurt and from 1977 in Göttingen. He retired in 1991 but gave lectures until 1999.

His focus was on the history of the Roman republic and the Principate, where his works gained importance like the structure of the Roman republic and a biography of Augustus.

From 1978 he was member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences.

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