Hans Beck (historian)

Hans Beck (born 22 April 1969 in Werneck) is a German and Canadian scholar in the field of Classical Studies.

Hans Beck received his PhD in Ancient History from University of Erlangen–Nuremberg in 1996 with a thesis on Polis und Koinon.

Die römische Aristokratie und die Anfänge des cursus honorum in der mittleren Republik (Career and Hierarchy: The Roman Aristocracy and the Origins of the cursus honorum in the Middle Republic) and then moved on to Frankfurt University in 2004, where he held a Heisenberg Fellowship, awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

[2][3] He remains affiliated with McGill University as adjunct professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies.

[citation needed] He was elected into the Royal Society of Canada in 2018 and appointed a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute in 2020.