Jens Koehn

Jens Köhn (born March 21, 1948 ) is a former German historical and legal historian and today's lawyer.

Jens Köhn studied law with a focus on ancient legal history and received his doctorate in 1977 at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR with a thesis on the law of the colonies in Italy. (An investigation based on the Roman legal literature up to the beginning of the 3rd century) . At the instigation of Helga Köpstein , he became an employee of the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology (ZIAGA). Here Köhn was involved in several of the Central Institute's projects. Together with Klaus-Peter Johne and Volker Weber , he wrote The Colons in Italy and the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire, one of the few writings in ancient history in the GDR that received lasting international attention. Köhn was responsible for the legal historical parts of the script. Together with Joachim Herrmann , he published the then prestigious ZIAGA publication Family, State and Society Formation; together with Burkhard Rode the commemorative property as an honor for Werner Sellnow . Köhn also wrote three children's books. In the course of the political change he gave up his position at ZIAGA and became a lawyer.

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Specialist literature

• with Klaus-Peter Johne and Volker Weber: The Colons in Italy and the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire. A study of the literary, legal and epigraphic sources from the 2nd century BC to the Severans. (= Writings on the history and culture of antiquity , Volume 21) Academy, Berlin 1983.
• Editor with Burkhard Rode: Property. Contributions to its development in political societies. Werner Sellnow on his 70th birthday. Böhlau, Weimar 1987 ISBN 3-7400-0055-4 .
• Editor with Joachim Herrmann : Family, State and Social Formation. Basic problems of pre-capitalist epochs one hundred years after Friedrich Engels' work "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State". (= Publications of the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , Volume 16), Academy, Berlin 1988 ISBN 3-05-000353-7 .

Children's books

• The she-wolf of the Capitol. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1985.
• Gods, heroes, monsters. (= My little lexicon ), Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-358-00913-0 (also published in Braille in 1991).
• The Etruscans. Children of Tinia. (= Ancient cultures on the Mediterranean ), children's book publisher, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-358-01623-4 .