John Scheid

For other uses, see Scheid (surname).

John Scheid (born 1946 in Luxembourg under the first name Jean) is a French historian.[1] A specialist of ancient Rome, he has been a professor at the Collège de France since 2001.

Biography

After his secondary studies in Luxembourg, John Sheid came to France in 1966 in order to study history and classical letters at the University of Strasbourg first, then in Paris where he was a pupil of Hans-Georg Pflaum. He obtained a 3rd cycle thesis scholarship that he led under the direction of Robert Schilling and which he supported in 1972 in Strasbourg.[2] (Les Frères arvales : recrutement et origine sociale sous les Julio-Claudiens)

Wishing to go to Rome as part of the École française de Rome, He must pass the agrégation; He obtained the necessary French naturalization in January 1973, in time to enroll in the competition of that year.[3] He was received at the agrégation de grammaire.[3] He left for Rome in 1974 and in 1975 began excavations in the district of "La Magliana", carried out regularly until 1988 (then in 1997–98).

From 1977 to 1983, he was assistant at the University of Lille-3, then became director of studies at the École pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), section of religious sciences.

In 1987, he supported his doctoral thesis, Romulus et ses frères. Le culte des frères arvales, modèle du culte public dans la Rome des empereurs.

Since 2001, he is a professor at the College de France, in charge of a chair Religion, institutions et société de la Rome antique. He is also co-director of the excavation of Djebel Oust in Tunisia, coordinator of the experimental excavation of a necropolis at Class, near Ravenna and coordinator of the Fana Templa Delubra. Corpus des lieux de culte dans l'Italie antique project.

He is codirector of the Revue d'histoire des religions and member of the board of editors of numerous magazines: Archives des sciences sociales des religions, Archiv für Religionsgeschichte (Teubner, Stuttgart-Leipzig), Potsdamer Althistorische Beiträge, Historia, Millenium and Mythos.

According to historian Jean-Louis Voisin, John Scheid "revolutionized [...] the study and approach of the Roman religion by insisting on the precise fulfillment of its rites and its civic character".[4]

Publications

Books

Collective works

Articles

See a detailled list on the site of ANHIMA.[5]

References

  1. (de Montrémy 2012) since he was naturalised in 1973
  2. Cf. notice SUDOC
  3. 1 2 (de Montrémy 2012)
  4. Que lisez-vous, entretien Jean-Louis Voisin, La Nouvelle Revue d'Histoire, n° 69, November–December 2013, p. 7.
  5. "SCHEID John". ANHIMA ANthropologie et HIstoire des Mondes Antiques (in French). Retrieved 12 November 2016.
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