Jean-Jacques Aubert

Jean-Jacques Aubert (born March 19, 1958 in Neuchâtel NE ) is a Swiss ancient historian .

Life

From 1976 to 1981 he studied Greek , Latin , Medieval French and Roman law at the University of Neuchâtel . As a postgraduate at New York University (1981–1982) and at the Graduate School at Columbia University (1984–1991) and as an exchange scholar at Harvard University (1987–1989) and Stanford University (1989), he received his degrees MA (1986), MPhil (1987) and Ph.D. (1991). He was a lecturer at the Universities of Neuchâtel (1992–1993), Freiburg (1993–1996) and Lausanne (1993–1994). Since 1996 he has been a professor of Classical Philology and Ancient History at the University of Neuchâtel . In the USA he taught as a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa (2004–2005, 2008) and at the University of Berkeley (2013).

Aubert's research focuses on Roman law, economic, social, legal, religious and cultural life in the Roman world, papyrology , and Latin epigraphy . He is married.

He has been President of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences since 2016 .

Fonts

• Business managers in ancient Rome. A social and economic study of institores, 200 BC - AD 250 (= Columbia studies in the classical tradition Volume 21). Brill, Leiden et al. 1994, ISBN 90-04-10038-5 (also dissertation, Columbia 1991).
• as editor with Roger S. Bagnall and Dirk Obbink : Columbia papyri X . Amer Society of Papyrologists, Atlanta 1996, ISBN 0-7885-0275-1 .
• as editor with Folker Siegert and Jacques De Roulet: Prédications synagogales, Pseudo-Philon (= Sources chrétiennes Volume 435). Édition du Cerf, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-204-06262-6 .
• as editor with Adriaan Johan Boudewijn Sirks: Speculum iuris. Roman Law as a Reflection of Economic and Social Life . Univ. of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2002, ISBN 0-472-11251-1 .
• as editor with Pierre Cochand, Pascal Singy and Christian Verdon: Identité plurielle, pluralité des identités. Conférences et débats du colloque scientifique et universitaire du 12 June 2002 (= Recueil de travaux Volume 52). Univ. de Neuchâtel, Genève 2003, ISBN 2-600-00937-X .
• as editor with Zsuzsanna Várhelyi: A Tall Order. Writing the Social History of the Ancient World. Essays in Honor of William V. Harris (= Contributions to Antiquity, Volume 216). KG Saur, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-598-77828-7 .

Web links

• Page at the University of Neuchâtel