Leonhard Schumacher

Leonhard Schumacher (born April 13, 1944 in Sigmaringen ) is a German ancient historian .

Leonhard Schumacher did his Abitur in Gladbeck in 1963 and then did his military service until 1965. From 1965 to 1973 he studied history , classical philology , classical archeology and Byzantine studies . In 1973 he received his doctorate in Mainz with the dissertation Prosopographic Investigations on the occupation of the four high Roman priests colleges in the age of the Antonine and Severan (96–235 AD) . Until 1981 he continued to work at the University of Mainz as a research assistant. There he completed his habilitation in 1982 with the work Servus Index. Slave interrogation and complaint in republican and imperial Rome . Schumacher taught as a private lecturer, later a C2 professor, in Mainz until 1984, then switched to a C3 professorship at the University of Kiel and in 1987 a C4 professorship at the University of Duisburg . From 1991 to 1994 he was Vice Rector for Teaching and Studies there. In 1994 he returned to Mainz as a professor and taught there until 2009. In Mainz, from 2003 to 2005, he was Dean of the Department of History. Since 1988 he has been an expert at the Academy of Sciences and Literature . One of his academic students was Sven Günther .

Schumacher's main research interests are ancient social (especially the history of slavery) and economic history , legal history , ancient religious history , epigraphy , numismatics and the history of the reception of ancient times. He is editor of the Mainz Ancient History Studies . He was the sub-project leader of Project A.3: State and Urban Cults in the Field of Tension between East and West. Cult development, ritual and sociological framework conditions in view and centers and peripheries (from Phoenician colonization to the beginning of late antiquity) and B.4: Economic, technological and cultural contacts within the framework of the fertile crescent and adjacent areas. From Hellenism to the beginning of the Arab period in Collaborative Research Center 295: Cultural and Linguistic Contacts. Processes of change in historical areas of conflict in Northeast Africa / West Asia .

Fonts

• Prosopographical investigations into the occupation of the four high Roman priestly colleges in the age of the Antonine and Severer (96–235 AD). Dissertation, Mainz 1973.
• Roman emperor in Mainz in the age of the Principate (27 BC - 284 AD). Studienverlag Brockmeyer, Bochum 1982, ISBN 3-88339-230-8 .
• Hello index. Slavery interrogation and complaint in republican and imperial Rome (= research on ancient slavery. Volume 15). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1982, ISBN 3-515-03830-2 .
• Roman inscriptions. Latin, German. Reclam, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-15-008512-8 .
• (Ed.): Religion - Economy - Technology. Ancient historical contributions to the emergence of new cultural structural patterns in the historical area of ​​North Africa / Asia Minor / Syria (= Mainzer Ancient History Studies. Volume 1). Scripta-Mercaturae-Verlag, St. Katharinen 1999, ISBN 3-89590-066-4 .
• Slavery in ancient times. Everyday life and fate of the unfree (= Beck's archaeological library ). CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-46574-9 ( review by Nils Müller).
• with Oliver Stoll (ed.): Language and culture in the imperial province of Arabia. Ancient historical contributions to the study of acculturation phenomena in the Roman Middle East (= Mainz ancient historical studies. Volume 4). Scripta-Mercaturae-Verlag, St. Katharinen 1999, ISBN 3-89590-140-7 .
• Corpus of Roman legal sources on ancient slavery. Part 6: Position of the slave in sacred law (= research on ancient slavery. Volume 3,6). Steiner, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 3-515-08977-2 .

literature

• Leonhard Schumacher: Historical Realism. Small writings on ancient history. Edited by Frank Bernstein (= Studies on Ancient History. Volume 26). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-946317-24-1 , especially pp. 333–341 (list of publications).

Web links

• Literature by and about Leonhard Schumacher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Leonhard Schumacher at the University of Mainz