Since April 2023, David Eibeck is a research assistant at the Department of Ancient History of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and simultaneously project staff member of the DFG-funded research project “Editionstools für eine Digitale Epigraphik (EDEp)”, for which he had been working as a student assistant already since 2020.
Between 2015 and 2022, he studied Philosophy and History at the universities of Stuttgart and Sevilla. His main area of interest has always been ancient history and its related disciplines. Indeed, he started participating in many workshops, summer schools and trainings in the fields of (digital) epigraphy and numismatics, as well as attending archaological lectures and taking part in an excavation.
He is currently working on his PhD project with the working title “Social Tensions in Southern Italy between the Pyrrhic and the Hannibalic Wars” (see below for further information), supervised by prof. Marietta Horster. Besides the regular teaching activities, he is also responsible for the Numismatic Collection of the Department.
Since 2020, he is a member of the international researchers community Epigraphy.info, participating actively in its Communication & Outreach Working Group since April 2023 and having been part of the Steering Committee from April 2023 to April 2025.

May 2023 – April 2025Member of the Steering Committee and the Social Media Working Group of epigraphy.info
Since May 2023Member of the Communication & Outreach Working Group of Epigraphy.info
Since April 2023Doctoral candidate and academic staff member in the faculty of Ancient History at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and at the DFG project EDEp
Winter semester 2022/23Adjunct lecturer, Dept. of Ancient History, Historical Institute, Univ. Stuttgart
2022Master of Arts in History (with a focus on Ancient History
2020 – 2023Student assistant, faculty of Ancient History (Prof. Dr. Horster), Historical Seminar, JGU Mainz (Collaboration on the project EDEp – Edition Tools for Digital Epigraphy)
2016 – 2022Student assistant in the Department of Ancient History (Prof. Dr. Scholz), Historical Institute, Univ. Stuttgart. Leading the tutorials for epigraphy, archeology and Latin as well as the ancient historical Latin reading circle
2015 – 2022Studied History and Philosophy at the Universität Stuttgart with a semester abroad at the Universidad de Sevilla
  • International Research Community Epigraphy.info, member since February 2020.
  • Association of Friends of the Historical Institute of the Universität Stuttgart e.V., member since June 2017.
  • Bürkert University Prize of the Christian Bürkert Stiftung for final theses at faculty 9 of the Universität Stuttgart for the year 2022/2023 for the master’s thesis “Rome, the Latins and the Goddess Diana: Investigation of the political-federal function of a (pan-)Latin deity” (supervised by Prof. Dr. Peter Scholz and Apl.-Prof. Dr. Holger Sonnabend).
  • Wilhelm Zimmermann Prize of the Association of Friends of the Historical Institute of the Universität Stuttgart e.V. for the best master’s thesis completed at the Historical Institute in 2022/2023 (title: “Rome, the Latins and the Goddess Diana: Investigation of the political-federal function of a (pan-)Latin deity”, supervised by Prof. Dr. Peter Scholz and Apl.-Prof. Dr. Holger Sonnabend).
  • Collaboration on the DFG project “Edition Tools for Digital Epigraphy (EDEp)“
  • Supervisor of the coin collection of the research unit Ancient History
  • Member of the Steering Committee and the Communication & Outreach Working Group of Epigraphy.info (Co-organization of the VIII. Epigraphy.info Workshops in Berlin 2024 and the IX. Epigraphy.info Workshops 2025 in Aarhus)
19.-26.08.2024Epigraphic Summer School “Saxa loquuntur: Roman written monuments from Friuli”, Aquileia (UD), Società Friulana di Archeologia / Institut für Geschichte, Karl Franzens-Universität Graz / Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici e del Patrimonio Culturale, Università degli Studi di Udine / Dipartimento di Culture e Civiltà, Università di Verona / Seminar für Geschichte, Europa-Universität Flensburg / Lehrstuhl für Alte Geschichte, Universität Regensburg.
07.-12.07.2024Venice Summer School in Digital and Public Humanities, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia.
03.-05.04.2024Participation in trainings in Digital Epigraphy (“Digital epigraphy and archaeology – toolbox presentation”, Prof. Eleni Bozia; “Epigraf Tool: Digital Editions of Latin and German Inscriptions”, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Jakob Jünger et al.; “Using SPARQL on epigraphic RDF”, Dr. Imran Asif et al.) as part of the VIII. Epigraphy.info Workshop, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften / Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
19.-21.10.2023Subject-specific course “Gymnasion and Polis between Hellenism and Imperial Period”, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, Munich.
21.-25.02.2022Introduction to TEI for scholarly texts, School of Advanced Study, London (Institute of Classical Studies, Institute of English Studies, Digital Humanities Research Hub).
14.-17.02.2022ENCODE Winterschool “Papyrology for non-specialists”, Universität Würzburg.
21.-25.06.2021International Summer School “Epigraphy for the Study of the Latin Language” (Online), Centre for Classical Studies, University of Lisbon.
17.-19.02.2020EpiDoc XML Training as part of the IV. Epigraphy.info Workshop, Universität Hamburg.
27.08.-05.09.2019Summer School in Latin Epigraphy MMXIX, Department of History and Department of Classical Philology, University of Zadar.
19.-24.08.2019Epigraphic Summer School “Saxa loquuntur: Monumenti iscritti Romani dal Friuli”, Aquileia (UD), Società Friulana di Archeologia / Institut für Geschichte, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz / Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici e del Patrimonio Culturale, Università degli Studi di Udine / Europa-Universität Flensburg.
  • Eibeck, David Philipp: Massinissa, the ‘civilizer of Numidia’, between literary topoi and archaeological findings, in: FeRA 47 (2022), pp. 1-30.
  • Magnani, Stefano/Heil, Heidi/Spera, Valentina/Bergen, Caroline/Eibeck, David: Frammenti epigrafici inediti da Aquileia – 1, in: Quaderni Friulani di Archeologia XXX,1 (2020), 97-110.
  • Eibeck, David: Soul and origin in Apuleius of Madauros, in: Rundbrief des Vereins der Freunde des Historischen Instituts der Universität Stuttgart No. 60 (March 2023), pp. 5-10.
  • Eibeck, David: The literary portrait of Iugurtha in Sallust’s Bellum Iugurthinum, in: Rundbrief des Vereins der Freunde des Historischen Instituts der Universität Stuttgart No. 57 (August 2021), pp. 31-36.
  • Eibeck, David: The ‘Civilization’ of Numidia by King Massinissa, in: Rundbrief des Vereins der Freunde des Historischen Instituts der Universität Stuttgart No. 55 (August 2020), pp. 51-54.
  • 07/17/2025: A ‚Hybrid Latin Colony‘? Ariminum’s Early Bronze Coinage as an Indicator for Tensions Between Different Social (and Ethnic?) Groups. 16th Celtic Conference in Classics, Panel 32: Rethinking Colonization in Ancient Italy and the Western Mediterranean (500–250 BC), Coimbra, 07/15–18/2025.
  • 04/01/2025: Bruttium between Pyrrhus, Hannibal and Rome. Emerging and developing local conflicts in a phase of loss of autonomy (280-202 BC). 11th Darmstadt Discussions, 03/31-04/02/2025.
  • 01/20/2025: The Digitalization of ‘Traditional’ Epigraphic Editions with the EDEp-Frontend: The Inscriptions of Signia (Latium) for the Ephemeris Epigraphica Electronica. Warsaw Seminar in Epigraphy and Papyrology, Winter Semester 2024/2025.
  • 09/21/2024: Poster presentation of the project Edition Tools for Digital Epigraphy (EDEp). Conference Digital History & Citizen Science, Halle (Saale).
  • 05/29/2024: The Coinage of A. Postumius Albinus: A Case Study on Historiographical Reconstruction Through Numismatic Iconography. Oxford University Numismatics Society Cross-Institution Graduate Colloquium.
  • 01/30/2024: “He who once groomed mules is now made consul!” The amazing career of Publius Ventidius Bassus: From prisoner of war to high official. Lecture series Spoken Antiquity (Department of Ancient History, Historical Institute, Universität Stuttgart / Landesmuseum Württemberg / Akademie für Gesprochenes Wort Stuttgart).
  • 12/07/2023: Ancient coins as bearers of political values. As part of “Think break! Guided tours through the scientific collections of the JGU at noon”, showcase of the university collections of the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
  • 02/07/2023: “For I am not only defending myself, but also Philosophy” – Apuleius’ Apology against the accusation of magic. Lecture series Spoken Antiquity (Department of Ancient History, Historical Institute, Universität Stuttgart / Landesmuseum Württemberg / Akademie für Gesprochenes Wort Stuttgart).
  • 11/10/2022: Rhetor and Psyche: On the doctrine of the soul of Apuleius of Madauros. 16th Young Academics* Conference “You only learn to speak by speaking”, Universität Graz, Institute for Antiquity.
  • 07/27/2022: Presentation of the master’s thesis “Rome, the Latins and the Cult of the Goddess Diana” at the Fourteenth Post-Semester Academy of the Association of Friends of the Historical Institute of the Universität Stuttgart e.V.
  • 12/14/2021: Land of nomads and elephants – Roman North Africa. Lecture series Spoken Antiquity (Department of Ancient History, Historical Institute, Universität Stuttgart / Landesmuseum Württemberg / Akademie für Gesprochenes Wort Stuttgart).
  • 01/29/2019: Presentation of the bachelor’s thesis “The development of the city of Forum Sempronii. Reconstruction of a local history based on the archaeological findings” in the graduate seminar/colloquium of the Department of Ancient History, Historical Institute, Universität Stuttgart (university-internal public).
  • 07/26/2018: Augustan ideology and the Romanization of Italy using selected examples. Student contribution to the Twelfth Post-Semester Academy of the Association of Friends of the Historical Institute of the Universität Stuttgart e.V.
  • Rome and Italy in the Middle Republic → Doctoral dissertation project: “Social Tensions in Southern Italy between the Pyrrhic and Hannibalic Wars” (working title)
  • Latin Epigraphy, esp. digitization → Collaboration on the DFG project ‘Edition Tools for Digital Epigraphy’ (EDEp)
  • Religious and cultural identity(ies) in Republican times (esp. distribution and political instrumentalization of deities and cults)
  • Numidia in Republican times