Henning Börm

Henning Börm (born 1974 in Flensburg) is a German historian.

Börm studied at the University of Kiel, where he passed his Staatsexamen in February 2002. From 2003 to 2004, he worked at the Seminar for Ancient History at the University of Münster, and from 2004 to 2008 at the Department of Classics at Kiel University as a research assistant to Peter Weiß. He received his doctorate there in 2006 with a thesis, supervised by Josef Wiesehöfer, on the late antique historian Procopius of Caesarea and Roman-Sasanian relations. In 2008, he became a research assistant at the University of Konstanz, and after completing his habilitation with a monograph on ''stasis'' during the Hellenistic period in 2018 he was accepted into the Heisenberg Programme of the German Research Foundation. From 2020 to 2022, Börm was professor of Ancient History at the University of Bochum. Since 2022, he has been a professor at the University of Rostock; in 2024, he taught as a guest lecturer at the University of Toronto.

Börm’s research focuses on both Greek and Roman topics, specialising in particular in the history of the Mediterranean world in the Hellenistic period and Late Antiquity. In 2013 he published a textbook on the Fall of the Western Roman Empire. His main research interests are ancient monocracies, Greek historiography, Roman–Iranian relations, the history of the Sasanian Empire and civil wars in antiquity. Börm is an ordinary member of the German Archaeological Institute. He is a member of the advisory board of the journal ''Chiron'' and one of the editors of the series ''Studies in Ancient Civil War.'' Provided by Wikipedia