Wilfried Nippel is a Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He has been an Ordinary Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 1997. He has written eight edited books and seven monographs, including Public Order in Ancient Rome (Cambridge, 1995). He has written more than 150 scholarly articles in German and English on subjects of ancient history, history of political thought and history of historiography.