Bernhard Palme#
| Email: | bernhard.palme 'at' univie.ac.at |
| Membership Number: | 3999 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Username: | bpalme |
| Elected: | 2015 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009, 08: Director of the Papyrus Department and the Papyrus Museum of the Austrian National Library
- 2004, 04: Full professor of Ancient History and Papyrology, University of Vienna
- 2003, 11: Offered full professorship of Papyrology, University of Heidelberg (declined)
- 1998, 04: Principal investigator of the START-Project, Austrian Academy of Science
- 1994, 04: Senior research assistant of the APART-Programme, Austrian Academy of Science
- 1983, 10: Research Assistant at the Department for Legal History, Austrian Academy of Science
Fields of Scholarship
- Papyrology: edition of Greek papyri and historical analysis of papyrus texts
- History of Late Antiquity, with focus on social elites and administrative history
- Social, economic and administrative of Egypt 300 BC–700 AD
- History of mentalities in antiquity
- Ancient legal history
- Roman military history
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Full Member of the Austrian Academy of Science (ÖAW)
- 2009 Member of the Council for Archaeological Research (Austrian Ministery for Science and Research)
- 2008 Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Science (ÖAW)
- 2007 Member of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI)
- 1998 Award of the Kardinal Innitzer-Prize
- 1997 Award of the START-Prize of the Austrian Federal ministery of Science and Research
