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Professor Uwe Walter serves as Professor of General History with a particular emphasis on Ancient History within the History Department at Universität Bielefeld's Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology, a position he has occupied since October 2004, initially as C4 and upgraded to W3 in 2009. Born on October 23, 1962, in Rotenburg an der Fulda, he pursued studies in History, Latin, and Greek at the University of Göttingen from 1983 to 1989, with a semester at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. He obtained his teaching certification for gymnasiums in History and Latin in 1989. Following his military service and studies, Walter completed his doctoral dissertation (Dr. phil.) in 1992 at Göttingen, examining citizenship and belonging in the Archaic Greek polis, published as "An der Polis teilhaben" in 1993. He then served as a trainee teacher and passed his second state examination in 1994. From 1995 to 1997, he taught in North Rhine-Westphalia schools, becoming Studienrat in 1997, and was seconded to the University of Cologne's Ancient History department until 2001. During 2001-2003, he held a research fellowship from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, culminating in his habilitation in 2003 at Cologne on "Memoria und res publica: Zur Geschichtskultur der römischen Republik," published in 2004.