Werner Huß, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Werner Huß

German historian

Date of Birth: 08-Sep-1936

Place of Birth: Schwabmünchen, Bavaria, Germany

Profession: historian, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Werner Huß (born 8 September 1936 in Schwabmünchen) is a German ancient historian. Werner Huß received a doctorate in Roman Catholic theology in 1967 and his habilitation in ancient history in 1975 at Munich with the work Untersuchungen zur Außenpolitik Ptolemaios' IV.
(Research into the Foreign Policy of Ptolemy IV).
He taught as Professor Ordinarius of Ancient History at the University of Bamberg from 1978 until his retirement in 2001.
He is co-editor of the Münchener Beiträge zur Papyrusforschung und antiken Rechtsgeschichte (Munich Contributions to Papyrology and Ancient Legal History). Huß's main research areas are Carthaginian history, Hellenistic history (especially Ptolemaic Egypt) and ancient religious history.
His most important works are the Geschichte der Karthager (History of the Carthaginians) and Ägypten in hellenistischer Zeit 332-30 v.
Chr.
(Egypt in Hellenistic Times 332–30 BC). Werner Huß is the father of Medieval Latinist history Bernhard Huß.