Waldemar Heckel

Waldemar Heckel (born 1949) is a Canadian historian.

Heckel was born in Bad Königshofen in 1949. He attained his master's degree in 1973 from McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario, and earned his doctorate in 1978 at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. His dissertation on the "marshals" of Alexander the Great also formed the basis for his 1992 work on this subject. Heckel is internationally regarded as a researcher on Alexander the Great, and has published numerous works on this. Other focal points of his research are ancient Greek history and ancient Greek warfare.

Until his retirement in late 2013, Heckel taught as a professor of ancient history at the University of Calgary.

Works

• (Ed, with Lawrence A. Tritle.): Alexander the Great. A New History. Oxford, inter alia, of 2009.
• The Conquests of Alexander the Great. Cambridge of 2007.
• Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great. Prosopography of Alexander's empire. Oxford, inter alia, of 2006.
• (Ed, with John C. Yardley.): Alexander the Great. Historical Sources in Translation. Oxford et al 2003.
• Justin: Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus, Volume I. Books 11-12: Alexander the Great. Translated by JC Yardley, comment by Waldemar Heckel. Oxford 1997th
• The Marshals of Alexander's empire. London / New York 1992nd
• Quintus Curtius Rufus: The History of Alexander. Translated by JC Yardley, with introduction, notes and commentary by Waldemar Heckel. London, 1984; corrected edition 2001 (several reprints).

External links

• Homepage at the University of Calgary