Arne Søby Christensen

Arne Søby Christensen (born 1945) is a Danish historian. He is an associate professor in history at the University of Copenhagen.

Biography Arne Søby Christensen was born in Copenhagen in 1945. He received a cand.mag. in history from the University of Copenhagen in 1975. His book Lactantius the Historian was published in 1980. From 1989 to 1998, Christensen was a member of the Danish Historical Society.

Christensen received his PhD in history from the University of Copenhagen in June 2002. His disputation was supervised by Ian N. Wood and Niels Lund. It was praised by Walter Goffart as a useful work. Anthropologist Peter S. Wells considered it a significant contribution to the study of ancient peoples of northern Europe. Ian N. Wood considered it an interesting work, although he thought Christensen went too far in denying Gothic elements in the texts. Sigbjørn Sønnesyn considered Christensen's theories suspiciously similar to circular reasoning. Michael Whitby dismissed Christensen's work as extreme and a mere footnote to what has already been written on the subject. Dick Harrison considered Christensen's book interesting, although he criticized its rejection of archaeological evidence and refusal to respond to the views of dissenting scholars.

Selected works Kristenforfølgelserne i Rom indtil år 250, 1977 Lactantius the Historian. An Analysis of the De Mortibus Persecutorum., 1980 Cassiodorus, Jordanes and the History of the Goths: Studies in a Migration Myth, 2002