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Peter Riedlberger awarded 1.5 million euros in funding
The Historian Dr. Dr. Peter Riedlberger has received the ERC Starting Grant, the most prestigious of all awards for excellent junior academics. This is the first ever ERC Starting Grant awarded to a German project in the field of ancient history, the first for the University of Bamberg and also the first in the field of the humanities and history that has gone to a Bavarian university not based in Munich. On 13 November, the European Research Council (ERC) approved funding for the project titled “The Proceedings of the Ecumenical Councils from Oral Utterance to Manuscript Edition as Evidence for Late Antique Persuasion and Self-Representation Techniques.”
Over the next five years, the ERC will provide 1.497.250 euros in funding for Riedlberger’s research. With their Starting Grants, the ERC supports up-and-coming researchers throughout Europe and the award is intended to enable these scholars to establish an independent research career.
“Due to its strict selection criteria, its renown and the significant amount of funding, the ERC Starting Grant is the most sought-after award at the European level,” says University President Prof. Dr. Dr. habil. Godehard Ruppert. “This accomplishment highlights the University of Bamberg’s particular strength in the humanities.”
As part of the ERC project beginning in April 2016, Peter Riedlberger will be heading a research team that will explore the records of the late antique ecumenical councils from a historical and cultural studies perspective. The councils’ proceedings were recorded and published as part of the so-called records. Aside from these, exceptionally few verbatim records have been passed down from antiquity. “The recorded council minutes occupy an absolutely exceptional position in the late antique source material,” says Riedlberger. They thereby afford classical scholars valuable insights directly into late antique argumentative techniques and decision-making processes.
Personal data: Peter Riedlberger, born in Aichach in 1973, studied ancient history in Munich, Freiburg and Paris. In 2009 he completed a PhD in Latin Philology at the CAU Kiel and in 2012 he received a doctorate of natural sciences in the History of Sciences from the LMU Munich. Following work and research positions in Munich, at the Warburg Institute in London, in Tel Aviv and at the University of Tübingen’s Faculty of Law, he has been conducting his research at the University of Bamberg’s Trimberg Research Academy since 2015.
For further information please contact:
Dr. Dr. Peter Riedlberger
phone: +49 089 / 52314470
peter.riedlberger@uni-bamberg.de
www.uni-bamberg.de/hist-ag/
http://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/kommunikation/news-in-english/artikel/erc_starting_...
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