Peter Funke

Peter Funke (born 18 March 1950 in

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Life

Peter Funke studied history and

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Funke's research focusses are the history of the Greek state system from

, he is employed in the Münster funded excellence group, Religion und Politik with the role of cults and sanctuaries in ancient treaties.

Funke was pro-rector for Teaching and Student Affairs at the University of Münster, as well as a member of the Joint Academic Reform Commission of North Rhine-Westphalia and of the working group, "New Media in Higher Education" of the German Rectors' Conference.

From 1996 to 2004, Peter Funke was subject evaluator for Ancient History and deputy chair of the specialist committee of Ancient World Studies for the

(DFG). From 2004 to 2005, he was also speaker for the "Ancient Cultures" review board. He has had close contact with scholars of other disciplines since 1995 as the DFG liaison for Münster University. Since 2005 he has belonged to the senate and steering committee, as well as the senate sub-committee for Perspektiven der Forschung (Perspectives on Research). In 2010 he became vice-president of DFG for the humanities.

Funke has been a member of the Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik in the German Archaeological Institute since 1988 and an ordinary member of the German Archaeological Institute since 1989. In 1997, the International Academy of Paedagogical Scholarship in Moscow selected him for membership. In 2007, he became project leader for Inscriptiones Graecae. He is also a board member and managing director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Cypriot Studies at the University of Münster. In 2011, he became one of the editors of the ancient historical journal Klio. Funke has been a board member of the "European Research Centre for Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Cultures" (CAMC) since 2009, a consortium founded and based at the University of Tartu in Estonia, which also includes the University of Münster and the University of Helsinki.

Funke has held several roles in the Union of German Historians (VHD). From 1990 to 1992, he was the subject representative for ancient history on the union's board, then deputy chair of the union (1992–2000) and finally chair (2004–2008).

Selected writings

• 1980. Homónoia und Arché. Athen und die griechische Staatenwelt vom Ende des Peloponnesischen Krieges bis zum Königsfrieden (404/3–387/6 v. Chr.) (Homonoia and Arche. Athens and the Greek State System from the End of the
  ISBN 3-515-03007-7
• 1999. Athen in klassischer Zeit (Athens in Classical Times), C. H. Beck, München. 3rd Edition, 2007 (
  ISBN 3-406-44574-8
  . (with Italian and Spanish translations)

External links

• Literature by and about Peter Funke in the German National Library catalogue
• Homepage of Peter Funke at Münster University
• Entry on Peter Funke on H-Soz-u-Kult
• Peter Funke Interview "Wo endet Europa?" by Q History