Jörg Rüpke#
Photo: Matthias Huff
| Membership Number: | 3620 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-4173-9587 0000-0002-4173-9587 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/joerg-ruepke-b5700881/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 Honorary Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Aarhus
- 2008, 10 Fellow for Religious Studies, Max Weber Centre
- 2008, 1-6 Interim president of the University of Erfurt
- 2004 - 2007 Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Erfurt
- 1999 - 2008 Professor of Comparative Religions, University of Erfurt
- 1995 - 19999 Professor of Classical Studies, University of Potsdam
- 1994 - 1995 Replacement Faculty, Chair of Latin Philology, University of Constance (Germany)
- 1990 - 1994 Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, University of Tuebingen
Fields of Scholarship
- Comparative religion
- History of religion in the ancient Mediterranean
- Latin philology
- History of classical scholarship
- Roman history
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Thüringer Forschungspreis für Grundlagenforschung 2012
- 2012 Invitation to hold the Townsend Lectures Cornell University 2013
- 2012 Prize “Geisteswissenschaften International”
- 2012 Appointment to the German Science Council (Wissenschaftsrat)
- 2011 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2010 Professeur invité Collège de France
- 2010 Prize “Geisteswissenschaften International”
- 2009 Fellow of the Council of Humanities, Princeton University
- 2008 Award Kolleg-Forschergruppe (International Research Group, together with H. Joas) (DFG)
- 2008 Gay-Lussac-Humboldt-Price for French-German Scientific Cooperation
- 2005 T.H.B.L. Webster lecture at the University of Stanford, California
- 2003 Professeur invité Université Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne)
- 1981-87, 88-89 Scholarship and doctoral scholarship of the German Scholarship Foundation
