Matthias Haake

Matthias Haake is a Research Fellow at the Department of Ancient History, Institute for Historical Sciences, University of Bonn. He specializes in the political cultural history of Hellenistic and Roman monarchy, social history of ancient philosophy, and Greek epigraphy. His work bridges cultural analysis with textual and inscriptional evidence.

• University of Bonn (since 2021, Heisenberg Fellowship)
• Eberhard Karls University Tübingen (2021–2024, Acting Professorship)

His research examines: Hellenistic royal ideology, philosophical practices in Roman provinces, epigraphic documentation of societal structures, and supralocal sanctuaries as political arenas. He integrates literary and inscriptional sources to analyze how philosophy shaped elite identity and governance.

Recent publications focus on: emperor image construction, Hellenistic biographies, and epigraphic traces of philosophical networks. Methodologically, he emphasizes interdisciplinary analysis of ancient texts and material culture.

• Heisenberg Fellowship (DFG, 2021–present)
• Editorship of Studies in Ancient Monarchies (since 2021)
• Contributions to Encyclopedia of Ancient History (2013)

He contributes to editorial boards of journals including sehepunkte, Hormos, and Rivista Storica dell'Antichità, advancing discourse on ancient historiography and epigraphy.