Lukas Thommen

Lukas Thommen (born May 23, 1958 in Basel ) is a Swiss ancient historian .

Lukas Thommen studied history , classical archeology and art history from 1978 to 1984 at the University of Basel and from 1985 to 1988 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy . In 1987 he received his doctorate in Basel with a thesis on "The People's Tribunate of the Late Roman Republic". He then worked as a research assistant at the Antikenmuseum Basel and the Ludwig Collection and as head of the Basel Sculpture Hall . From 1992 to 2000 Thommen was a research assistant at the Department of Ancient History at the University of Basel. In 1995/96 he worked as a Junior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC

In 1995 he completed his habilitation in Basel with the thesis “Lakedaimonion politeia. The emergence of the Spartan constitution ”. In 2002 he became a research assistant at the University of Mannheim . From 2002 to 2004 Thommen worked on the National Fund project "Sources for the History of the Parthian Empire".

Since 2004 he has been teaching at the History Department of the University of Zurich as a research assistant with the rank of professor. Guest teaching assignments led him to the University of Bern . Since 1996 he has also been a lecturer in Ancient History and in the context of the inter-faculty program “Man-Society-Environment” at the University of Basel.

Thommen's research focuses on the constitutional and social history of archaic and classical Greece - especially Sparta - as well as the Roman Republic , gender history ("body history"), environmental history and Hellenism in the Middle East .

Fonts

• The people's tribunate of the late Roman Republic , Steiner, Stuttgart 1989 ( Historia . Individual writings, Bd. 59) ISBN 3-515-05187-2 .
• Lakedaimonion politeia. The emergence of the Spartan constitution , Steiner, Stuttgart 1996 ( Historia . Individual writings, Bd. 103) ISBN 3-515-06918-6 .
• Sparta. Constitutional and social history of a Greek polis , Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2003 ISBN 3-476-01964-0 ( review at Sehepunkte by Jan Timmer (PDF; 42 kB), review in the Süddeutsche Zeitung by Karl Christ )
  • 2nd expanded edition. Stuttgart 2017.
• The early Sparta (ed. With Andreas Luther and Mischa Meier ), Steiner, Stuttgart 2006 ISBN 3-515-08635-8 .
• Ancient body history , UTB, Stuttgart 2007 ISBN 3-8252-2899-1 .
• Environmental history of antiquity , Beck, Munich 2009 ISBN 978-3-406-59197-6 .
• Archaic and Classical Greece , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2019 ISBN 978-3-17-031944-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Lukas Thommen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Portrait on the website of the University of Basel