John Scheid


John Scheid is a French historian. 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 Scheid came to France in 1966 in order to study history and classical letters first at the University of Strasbourg and 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.
Wishing to go to Rome as part of the École française de Rome, he had to pass the agrégation. He obtained the necessary French naturalization in January 1973, in time to enroll in the competition of that year. He was received at the agrégation de grammaire. He left for Rome in 1974 and in 1975 began excavations in the district of La Magliana, carried out regularly until 1988.
From 1977 to 1983, he was an assistant at the University of Lille-3, then became director of studies at the École pratique des Hautes Études, section of religious sciences.
In 1987, he defended his doctoral thesis, Romulus et ses frères : Le culte des frères arvales, modèle du culte public dans la Rome des empereurs.
Since 2001, he has been 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 Classe 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 journals: Archives des sciences sociales des religions, Archiv für Religionsgeschichte, Potsdamer Althistorische Beiträge, , 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".

Publications

Books

See a detailed list on the site of ANHIMA.