1988
Habilitation at the University of Heidelberg (thesis: ‘Die dunklen Jahrhunderte der Persis. Untersuchungen zu Geschichte und Kultur von Fars in frühhellenistischer Zeit (330–140 v. Chr.)’ [The Dark Ages of Persis. Research into the history and culture of Fars in Early Hellenistic times]; published in Munich 1994.

1977
PhD (thesis: ‘Der Aufstand Gaumatas und die Anfänge Dareios I.’ [Gaumata’s revolt and the beginnings of the reign of Darius I]; published in Bonn 1978.

1973
Study of History, English, Indo-European Linguistics and Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Münster (Westphalia).

Since 1989
Chair of Ancient History at the University of Kiel, Director of the Institute of Classics

Member of the ‘Zentrum für Asiatische und Afrikanische Studien’ (Centre of Asian and African Studies) at Kiel University,

Editor of ‘Oriens et Occidens’ (Stuttgart) and co-editor of ‘Asien und Afrika’ (Hamburg), ‘Achaemenid History’ (Leiden), ‘Oikumene’ (Frankfurt), ‘Kieler Historische Studien’ (Stuttgart)

Member of the Board ‘Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum’ (London)

Correspondent member of the ‘Deutsches Archäologisches Institut’ and the ‘Philologisch- Historische Klasse der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen’.

Main interests in the History of the Ancient Near East, in Greek and Roman Social History, in the History of the Jews in Antiquity and in the History of Scholarship.

in press
Wiesehöfer, J.: The Late Sasanian Near East. In: The New Cambridge History of Islam. Vol. 1. Cambridge.

2009
Wiesehöfer, J.: Ancient Persia. From 550 BC to 650 AD. London-New York. 3rd ed. = 2nd rev. ed., London-New York 2004 (11996) (a Persian translation was published in Teheran 1998, now 3rd ed. 2008; a Turkish translation of the German original (Das antike Persien, 2nd ed.) appeared in 2003, an Arabic translation of the German original (4th ed., 2005) was published in Beirut/Damascus in 2009).

2009
Wiesehöfer, J.: Greeks and Persians. In: Raaflaub, K. and van Wees H. (eds.): The Blackwell Companion to Archaic Greece. Oxford, 162-185.

2008
Wiesehöfer, J., Börm, H., and Ehrhardt, N.: Monumentum et Instrumentum Inscriptum. Festschrift f. Peter Weiß. Stuttgart.

2008
Wiesehöfer, J.: The Achaemenid Empire. In: Morris, I. and Scheidel, W. (eds.): The Dynamics of Ancient Empires. Oxford-New York, S. 66-98.

2007
Wiesehöfer, J.: Ein König erschließt und imaginiert sein Imperium: Persische Reichsordnung und persische Reichsbilder zur Zeit Dareios I. (522–486 v. Chr.). In: M. Rathmann (ed), Raumwahrnehmung und Raumerfassung in der Antike (Mainz, in press 2007).

2007
Wiesehöfer, J.: From Achaemenid Imperial Order to Sasanian Diplomacy: War, Peace and Reconciliation in Pre-Islamic Iran. In: Raaflaub, K. (ed.): War and Peace in the Ancient World. Oxford, 121-140

2007
Wiesehöfer, J., Luther, A. and Rollinger, R.: Getrennte Wege? Kommunikation, Raum und Wahrnehmung in der Alten Welt (Oikumene, 2). Frankfurt.

2007
Wiesehöfer, J.: King, Court and Royal Representation in the Sasanian Empire. In: A. Spawforth (ed.): The Court and Court Society in Ancient Monarchies. Cambridge, 58-81.

2007
Wiesehöfer, J.: The Achaemenid Empire in the 4th Century B.C.E. A Period of Decline? In: Lipschits, O. e.a. (eds.): Judah and the Judaeans in the 4th Century B.C.E., Winona Lake, 11-30.

2006
Wiesehöfer, J.: ... keeping the two sides equal’: Thucydides, the Persians and the Peloponnesian War. In: Rengakos, A., Tsakmakis (eds.): A. Brill’s Companion to Thucydides. Leiden, 657-667.

2006
Wiesehöfer, J. & Ph. Huyse: Ērān ud Anērān. Studien zu den Beziehungen zwischen dem Sasanidenreich und der Mittelmeerwelt. In: Oriens et Occidens 13. Stuttgart.

2006
Wiesehöfer, J.: Das frühe Persien. Beck’sche Reihe Wissen (München, 3rd revised edition) [translations in Italian: La Persia antica, Bologna 2003, and Spanish: Antigua Persia, Madrid 2003].

2005
Wiesehöfer, J.: Das antike Persien von 550 v. Chr. bis 651 n. Chr. (Zürich/München); 4th edition with bibliographical epilogue 2005; 426 pp., 32 plates, 6 figures, 4 maps; translation into Turkish: Antik Pers Tarihi (Istanbul 2003); translation into Arabic in preparation.

2004
Wiesehöfer, J.: Ancient Persia. From 550 BC to 650 AD (London/New York 1996) 329 pp., 32 plates, 6 figures, 4 maps (revised translation of Wiesehöfer 1994; new-Persian translation published in Teheran 1998); 3rd edition = 2nd revised edition, London/New York 2004.

2004
Wiesehöfer, J.: Bergvölker im antiken Nahen Osten: Fremdwahrnehmung und Eigeninteresse. In: S. Conermann and G. Haig (eds), Die Kurden – Studien zu ihrer Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur. Asien und Afrika 8 (Hamburg) 11–26.

2001
Wiesehöfer, J.: ‘Pubertas’. In: Der Neue Pauly, Vol. 10 (Stuttgart/Weimar 2001).

2001
Wiesehöfer, J.: ‘Sterblichkeit’. In: Der Neue Pauly, Vol. 11 (Stuttgart/Weimar).

1999
Wiesehöfer, J.: ‘Iuvenes’, ‘Kindheit’, ‘Kindesaussetzung’, ‘Lebenserwartung’. In: Der Neue Pauly, Vol. 6 (Stuttgart/Weimar).

1998
Wiesehöfer, J.: ‘Familienplanung’. In: Der Neue Pauly, Vol. 4 (Stuttgart/Weimar).

1998
Wiesehöfer, J.: ‘Heiratsalter’, ‘Jugend’. In: Der Neue Pauly, Vol. 5 (Stuttgart/Weimar).

In progress
Liewert, Anne: Meteorological medicine in the Hippocratic Corpus

In progress
Moser, Daniela: Wood in the Roman Age: cultural landscapes, forest exploitation and timber circulation.

In progress
Krütgen, Nadine: Architecture of Roman villas in paintings and mosaics. Images of villas in the Roman Empire and Late Antiquity and their meaning.

In progress
Meurer, Philipp: Landscape, perception and imagination. Concepts of identity and alterity in Dutch landscape painting of the 16th and 17th century.

In progress
Aewerdieck, Björn: Signs in the sky. Interpretation and mastering of a spectacular sky phenomenon from Antiquity up to Early Modern Times.

In progress
Matarese, Chiara: Deportations of Peoples in the Achaemenid Empire.

In progress
Titova, Evgeniya: Empire building and identity development. The spatial and cultural aspects of the reign of Tigran the Great.

In progress
Balatti, Silvia: Mountain people in the Ancient Near East: the Case of the Zagros.

In progress
Boysen, Sara C.: Roman villa landscapes in ancient Italy. Literary perception, development, utilization.

In progress
Plischke, Sonja: The Seleucid kingdom and Iran - The Development of Empire-building in the East.

2007
Henning Börm: Perser und Persisches bei Prokop (erscheint Stuttgart 2007): summa cum laude.

2005
Annegret Wittram: Felix Jacoby und Kiel (erschienen: Frankfurt 2005): magna cum laude.