Kai Brodersen read Ancient History, Classics and (Protestant) Theology, funded by the "Stiftung
Maximilianeum" and the
Studienstiftung, at the
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg,
LMU Munich (Germany), and the
University of Oxford. From LMU Munich, he holds a Dr. phil. (1986) and a Dr. phil. habil. (1995). He is married and has 4 grown-up children. In 1996/7, he was made Chair of Ancient History at the
University of Mannheim, which he then served for more than 10 years in leading positions (Dean, Dean of Studies and Dean of Finance, 6 years as Vice-President). In 2008, he was appointed Professor of Ancient Culture (Classics) at the
University of Erfurt which he served as its president from 2008 to 2014, and continues to serve as a professor. He has been a visiting fellow at
Newcastle University (2000/01),
University of St Andrews (2001/02),
Royal Holloway, University of London (2006/7),
St John's College, Oxford (2007/8),
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (2014–2020), the
University of Western Australia (2015) and the Wissenschaftkolleg Greifswald (2019-). He is a full member of the
Saxonian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and managing editor of the international journal of ancient History
Historia. ==References==