Prof. Dr. David Engels

Prof. Dr. David Engels

Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Prof. Dr. David Engels (1979) is chair of Roman History at the University of Brussels (ULB) and currently works as research professor at the Instytut Zachodni in Poznań, Poland. Author and editor of numerous scholarly books and papers on ancient history, reception history, the philosophy of history and modern conservatism, he is chiefly known through his monograph "Le déclin" (2013), where he compared the crisis of the EU to the decline and fall of the Roman Republic in the 1st c. B.C., and his two newest books, "Renovatio Europae" (2019) and "Was tun?" (2020).