Kurt Raaflaub

Kurt Arnold Raaflaub (born February 15, 1941 in Buea ) is a Swiss ancient historian .

Kurt Raaflaub grew up in Basel and Cameroon and is the older brother of the conductor Beat Raaflaub . Raaflaub studied history and classical philology at the Universities of Basel and Hamburg . In Basel he received his doctorate from Christian Meier on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey . From 1972 to 1978 he was assistant professor at the Free University of Berlin . In 1979 he completed his habilitation there. Raaflaub taught from 1978 until his retirement in 2009 as Professor of Ancient History at Brown University . In 1989/1990 he was a research fellow at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich and dealt with the beginnings of political thought among the Greeks. From 1992 to 2000 he was director of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC together with Deborah Boedeker. Raaflaub has been a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute since 1995 .

His main research interests are the Roman Republic , the history of archaic and classical Greece, the political and social environment of Homeric poetry, Athenian democracy, war and peace in antiquity.

Fonts

Monographs

• Political Thought and Crisis of the Polis. Athens in the Constitutional Conflict of the late 5th century BC Chr. (= Writings of the Historical College. Lectures. Vol. 27). Historisches Kolleg Foundation, Munich 1992 ( digitized version ).
• The discovery of freedom. On the historical semantics and social history of a basic political concept of the Greeks (= Vestigia. Contributions to ancient history. Vol. 37). Beck, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-406-30552-0 .
• Dignitatis contentio. Studies on motivation and political tactics in the civil war between Caesar and Pompeius (= Vestigia. Contributions to ancient history. Vol. 20). Beck, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-406-04790-4 .

Editorships

• Beginnings of political thought in antiquity. The Middle Eastern cultures and the Greeks (= writings of the Historical College. Colloquia. Vol. 24). With the assistance of Elisabeth Müller-Luckner. Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55993-1 ( digitized ).
• with Mark Toher: Between Republic an Empire. Interpretations of Augustus and his Principate. University of California Press, Berkeley 1990, ISBN 0-520-06676-6
• with Ian Morris : Democracy 2500? Questions and Challenges. Dubuque, Iowa 1998, ISBN 0-7872-4466-X .

literature

• Ernst Baltrusch : History of Ancient History at the Free University. In: Karol Kubicki, Siegward Lönnendonker (ed.): The historical sciences at the Free University of Berlin (= contributions to the history of science of the Free University of Berlin. Vol. 2). V & R unipress, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89971-475-3 , pp. 11-40, here: p. 37.

Web links

• Literature by and about Kurt Raaflaub in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Kurt Raaflaub at the Center for Hellenic Studies
• Page from Kurt Raaflaub at Brown University
• Family tree entry