John Scheid (born 1946 in Luxembourg under the first name Jean) is a French historian. A specialist of

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, he has been a professor at the

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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 The University of Strasbourg (french: Université de Strasbourg, Unistra) is a public research university located in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, with over 52,000 students and 3,300 researchers. The French university traces its history to the ea ...

and then in Paris, where he was a pupil of

Hans-Georg Pflaum Hans-Georg Pflaum (3 June 1902, Berlin – 26 December 1979, Linz) was a German-born French historian. Life Pflaum, who came from a Jewish family of industrialists, at first studied law in Breslau and Heidelberg, afterwards taking a position i ...

. He obtained a 3rd cycle thesis scholarship that he led under the direction of Robert Schilling and which he supported in 1972 in Strasbourg. (''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 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 (and afterwards in 1997–98). From 1977 to 1983, he was an assistant at the University of Lille-3, then became director of studies at the

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(EPHE), 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'' (‘Romulus and his brothers: The worship of the Arval Brethren, a model of public worship in imperial Rome’). Since 2001, he has been a professor at the

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, in charge of a chair ''Religion, institutions et société de la Rome antique'' (‘Religion, institutions, and society of ancient Rome’). 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 Ravenna ( , , also ; rgn, Ravèna) is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy. It was the capital city of the Western Roman Empire from 408 until its collapse in 476. It then served as the c ...

, 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'' (Teubner, Stuttgart-Leipzig), ''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".Que lisez-vous, entretien Jean-Louis Voisin, '' La Nouvelle Revue d'Histoire'', n° 69, November–December 2013, p. 7.

Honours and awards

Honours

* 2013 : Knight of the

Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleo ...

(

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) * 2016 : Officier of the

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) * 2020 : Grand Officier of the

Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg The Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (French: ''Ordre de Mérite du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg'') is an order of merit of Luxembourg, instituted on 23 January 1961 by Grand Duchess Charlotte. Grand Master of the order is the Grand ...

* 2021 : Commander of the

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Awards

* 2020 :

Prix Saintour The Prix Saintour is a series of prizes awarded annually by each of the five institutions making up the Institut de France since 1835. It is an annual literary prize, created in by the Académie française and awarded from 1893 to 1989 The Acad� ...

* 2015 : Emile Girardeau Prize of the

Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosop ...

* 2016 : Medal of the

Acknowledgement

* Member of the

Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions (epigr ...

* Member of the

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* Corresponding member of the

Grand Ducal Institute Grand Ducal Institute () is the national academy of Luxembourg. It is based in Luxembourg City, in the south of the country. The Institute incorporates six subsections, each dedicated to a separate field of academic research: * History (''Sectio ...

* Corresponding fellow of the

British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars s ...

Honorary degrees

* 2006 :

University of Erfurt The University of Erfurt (german: Universität Erfurt) is a public university located in Erfurt, the capital city of the German state of Thuringia. It was founded in 1379, and closed in 1816. It was re-established in 1994, three years after Germ ...

* 2013 :

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

Publications

Books

*1972 : ''Les frères arvales. Recrutement et origine sociale sous les Julio-Claudiens'', Paris, ed. Presses Universitaires de France. *1983 : ''Religion et piété à Rome'', Paris, ed. La Découverte, 1985, 158 p. . (First published in Italian under the title ''La religione a Roma'', Bari, Laterza). *1990 : ''Romulus et ses frères Le collège des frères arvales, modèle du culte public dans la Rome des empereurs'', Rome, ed. Bibliothèque des Écoles Françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, vol. 275, 806 p. . *1990 : ''Le collège des frères arvales. Étude prosopographique du recrutement (69-304)'', Rome, ed. Écoles Françaises de Rome. *1998 : ''Commentarii fratrum arvalium qui supersunt. Les copies épigraphiques des protocoles annuels de la confrérie arvale (21 av.-304 ap. J.-C.)'', Rome, ed. Écoles Françaises de Rome. *2001 : ''Religion et piété dans la Rome antique'', Paris, ed. Éditions

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, 2001, 192 p. . *2001 : ''Chaire de religion, institutions et société de la Rome antique'', Paris, ed. Collège de France, series "Leçon inaugurale". . *2002 : ''La religion des Romains'', Paris, ed. Armand Colin, 2002, 176 p. *2005 : ''Quand faire, c'est croire'', Paris, ed. Aubier, « Collection historique ». *2007 : ''Res Gestae Diui Augusti. Hauts Faits du Divin Auguste'', Paris, ed. Les Belles Lettres. *2011 : ''Pouvoir et religion à Rome'', Paris, ed. Pluriel. *2012 : ''À Rome sur les pas de Plutarque'', Paris, ed. Vuibert. *2015 : ''Les Dieux, l'État et l'individu. Réflexions sur la religion civique à Rome'', Paris, ed. Seuil. *2017 : ''La religion romaine en perspective'', Paris, ed. Collège de France. *2018 : ''Tra epigrafia e religione romana. Scritti scelti, editi e inediti, tradotti e aggiornati'', Roma, ed. Quasar. *2019 : ''Ad Deam Diam. Ein heiliger Hain in Roms Suburbium'', Stuttgart, ed. Steiner Verlag, 2019. *2019 : ''Rites et religion à Rome'', Paris, ed. CNRS. *2020 : ''Infographie de la Rome antique'' (with Nicolas Guillerat), Paris, ed. Passés Composés.

Collective works

*1992: *1995: *1998: John Scheid, Paola Tassini, Jörg Rüpke, ''Recherches archéologiques à la Magliana : Commentarii fratrum arvalium qui supersunt. Les copies épigraphiques des protocoles annuels de la confrérie arvale (21 av.–304 ap. J.-C.)'', École française, Rome, . *2002: *John Scheid, Henri Broise, Le balneum des frères arvales, École française, Roma, 1987, . *2003: *2009:

Jörg Rüpke Jörg Rüpke (born 27 December 1962 in Herford, West Germany) is a German scholar of comparative religion and classical philology, recipient of the Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize in 2008, and of the Advanced Grant of the European Research Council in 2011 ...

, John Scheid, ''Bestattungsrituale und Totenkult in der römischen Kaiserzeit/Rites funéraires et culte des morts aux temps impériales'' (Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 27), Stuttgart: Steiner. *2010:

Articles

See a detailed list on the site of ANHIMA. * John Scheid
"Politique et religion dans la Rome antique. Quelle place pour la liberté de culte dans une religion d’État ?"
''La Vie des idées'', 28 June 2011.

References

External links

Biographie

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