Christian Meier

Christian Meier (born 1929 in Stolp, Pomerania) is a German historian of antiquity. He studied history, classical philology and Roman law, received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1956, and completed his habilitation in Frankfurt am Main in 1963. After holding professorships in Basel, Cologne and Bochum, he was professor of ancient history at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from 1981 to 1997. He chaired the Association of German Historians from 1980 to 1988 and served as president of the German Academy for Language and Literature from 1996 to 2002. He received numerous awards, including the Jakob Grimm Prize for the German Language in 2003. His best-known works include Caesar (1982), Athens (1993) and From Athens to Auschwitz (2002).