since 10/2024:

Research Associate at the DFG-Project Geographi Latini Online, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

10/2023 - 09/2024:

Substitute position: Akademischer Rat, Chair of Ancient History (Bruno Bleckmann) at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

12/2022:

Completion of doctoral studies in history under the supervision of Prof. Dr. A. Eich and Prof. Dr. B. Bleckmann) at University of Wuppertal with a thesis on: Kompilieren, Kürzen, Kontinuieren. Ein Versuch über spätantike Chronistik als kulturelles Phänomen, historische Quelle und philologische Herausforderung (Summa cum laude)

10/2022 - 09/2023:

Research Associate, Chair of Ancient History (B. Bleckmann) at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Collaboration with Kleine und fragmentarische Historiker der Spätantike (North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts)

Seit 10/2022:

Associate of the DFG-Graduiertenkolleg (Research Training Group) 2196: Dokument - Text - Edition at the University of Wuppertal

WiSe 2019/20:

Teaching assignment at the University of Wuppertal, Chair of Ancient History (A. Eich)

04/2019 - 09/2022:

PhD-Position at the DFG-Graduiertenkolleg (Research Training Group) 2196: Dokument - Text - Edition at the University of Wuppertal

08/2018 - 03/2019:

PhD funding by the University of Wuppertal

SoSe 2018 - WiSe 2022:

PhD student at the University of Wuppertal (A. Eich)

SoSe 2018 - WiSe 2019/20:

Teaching assignment at the Ruhr University Bochum, Chair of Ancient History

05/2016 - 09/2019:

Student assistant at the DFG-Graduiertenkolleg (Research Training Group) 2196: Dokument - Text - Edition at the University of Wuppertal

05/2016 - 09/2019:

Student assistant, Chair of Ancient History (A. Eich) at the University of Wuppertal

04/2016 - 09/2019:

MEd History/Classical Philology (Latin)/Educational Sciences at the University of Wuppertal

WiSe 2015/16:

Semester abroad (Erasmus-program) at the Università Cattolica des Sacro Cuore in Mailand.

05/2015 - 09/2015:

Student assistant, Chair of Ancient History (A. Eich) at the University of Wuppertal

10/2014 - 09/2017:

MA History at the University of Wuppertal

10/2010 - 03/2015:

History/Classical Philology (Latin) at the University of Wuppertal

Focus of research:

• Theory and practice of critical editing
• Critical editing and the Digital Humanities
• History of textual transmission and textual criticism
• Ancient geography
• Antiquarianism and encyclopedic literature
• Chronicles between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages

• Auxiliary sciences (classical German "Hilfswissenschaften")

   

  DFG-financed long-term project for the edition and study of Latin texts on geography: Geographi Latini Online (Link)

Monographies:

Fröhlich, Niklas: Spätantike Chroniken im Fluss der Zeit. Kompilieren, Kürzen, Kontinuieren als kulturelles Phänomen, historische Quelle und philologische Herausforderung, Millennium-Studien 110, Berlin/Boston 2025 (Link).

• Review: Sehlmeyer, M., in: Plekos 27 (2025), 711-719 (Link).

Articles:

Fröhlich, Niklas: Chronicles and Annals at the End of Antiquity – The Challenge of Compilations and Multiple Edenda, in: Kaschke, S./van Hees, B. J. (Hrsg.): Annals in Carolingian Europe. A Genre in Motion, Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 147, Berlin/Boston 2026 (forthcoming, in print), 73–97 (Link).

Fröhlich, Niklas: Die ersten Aschkenasim? Zur geographischen Einordnung der Goten im sogenannten Exordium, in: Orbis Terrarum 23 (2025, in print), 127–152.

Fröhlich, Niklas: The Historiographical Crisis of the Fifth Century: Towards a New Paradigm for Late Antique and Early Medieval Historiography, in: Millennium 22 (2025), 149–201 (Link).

Fröhlich, Niklas: Reichenauiensis. Ein verlorener Reichenauer Codex und seine Bedeutung für die Textkonstitution der Chronik Prospers, der Chronik Cassiodors, der Continuatio Reichenauiensis und des Laterculus Vandalorum mitsamt einer Neuedition der Fasti Augustani, in: Millennium 21 (2024), S. 129-209 (Link).

Editor:

Fröhlich, Niklas/Politycki, Bastian/Schäfer, Dirk/Sonder, Annkathrin (Hrsg.): Der Text und seine (Re-)Produktion, editio Beihefte 55, Berlin/Boston 2023.

Encyclopedia articles:

Fröhlich, Niklas: Chronicle, in: Greek and Roman Humanities Encyclopedia, Historiography (2025/26) [in preparation]

Fröhlich, Niklas: Consularia, in: Greek and Roman Humanities Encyclopedia, Historiography (2025/26) [in preparation]

Fröhlich, Niklas: Hieronymus of Stridon, in: Greek and Roman Humanities Encyclopedia, Historiography (2025) [in preparation]

Cooperations

Prof. Dr. Leif Isaksen  (University of Exeter)
Project: Ravenna Cosmography: Locations, Alignments & Weblinks (Webseite/Github)
In cooperation with the GLO.

Dr. Mattia Vitelli Casella (Università di Bologna)
Co-organization of a section for of a conference in Bologna, 11/2026. Working title: Greek Geography in the Roman Imperial Period: Reception, Transformation, Innovation. 

Andrea Pierozzi (Università di Siena)
Coordination of an associated/integrated project of a visiting scholar as part of the DFG-project GLO.