Ekkehard Weber, em. o. Univ.-Prof. Dr.

Ekkehard Weber was born in Vienna in 1940, studied Classical Philology, German Studies and Ancient History at the University of Vienna from 1958/59 and received his doctorate on November 25, 1964 with an epigraphic dissertation in the field of Roman history entitled "Svpplementvm epigraphicvm zv CIL III für Salzburg, Steiermark, Oberösterreich und das norische Niederösterreich 1902-1964". After a research stay in Rome, he became an assistant at the Institute for Austrian Legal History at the University of Graz in 1967, moved to the Institute for Ancient History and Classical Studies there and in 1971 moved to the Institute for Ancient History, Archaeology and Epigraphy at the University of Vienna. In 1975 he habilitated in Roman history and Latin epigraphy, and in 1983 in the entire field of ancient history. He has also taught at the Universities of Salzburg and Klagenfurt.

Since 1984, the father of three sons has been married to his colleague, the mycenaeologist Ingrid Weber-Hiden.

From 1980-2007, he was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Vienna, for a long time also Head of the Institute (under several different names) and worked on numerous university self-government committees, including the Academic Senate from 1979-2006. Ekkehard Weber retired in 2007, but continued to teach Roman history, epigraphy and geography/cartography until 2018 and headed the FWF project "New edition of CIL III (volumes Pannonia and Noricum)" until 2013.

He also taught at other universities and adult education centers and was very active both inside and outside the university in communicating ancient studies to the general public.

From 2004/05 he studied law at the University of Vienna and graduated on October 14, 2010. Mag. iur.

His research interests include the Latin inscriptions of the Austrian region, Roman antiquity and the history of the Romans in Austria.
Other areas of specialization are ancient geography and cartography, ancient chronology and the history of antiquity.
He has published extensively both individual studies and corpora of inscriptions and was responsible for the inscriptions of the provinces of Noricum and Pannonia for the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL). He also published the first annotated facsimile edition of the Tabula-Peutingeriana (1976).His other publications include "Die Römerzeitlichen Inschriften in der Steiermark" (1969, Habil.), "Augustus: Meine Taten | Res gestae divi Augusti" in numerous editions, "Die römerzeitlichen Inschriften aus Rom und Italien in Österreich" (hgg.gem.m.Franziska Beutler, 1997), a textbook on Latin epigraphy and also the (co-)editorship of the specialist journals "Römisches Österreich" and "Tyche".

Honors

Weber is a member of the Bologna Academy of Sciences (1993), a member of the Association Internationale d'Épigraphie Grecque et Latine, a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute (1979), a full member of the Austrian Archaeological Institute (1999), holder of the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, and on January 17, 2008 he was appointed Honorary Senator of the University of Vienna on the occasion of his retirement.
On January 17, 2008, on the occasion of his retirement, he was appointed Honorary Senator of the University of Vienna in recognition of his extremely long-term and extraordinary commitment to academic self-administration, teaching, specialized didactics as well as at the interfaces to the interested public (radio and television interviews, active lecture activities at schools and adult education centres, etc.).