Thomas Späth

Thomas Späth (born February 4, 1956 in Schaffhausen ) is a Swiss ancient historian .

Thomas Späth studied history, French and sociology from 1975 to 1978 and from 1980 to 1985 at the University of Basel and from 1978 to 1980 history and French at the Sorbonne (Paris III). In 1985 he completed his studies with a licentiate .

Between 1981 and 1987, Späth held a part-time position as a lecturer in history at the canton school in Schaffhausen . He was actively involved in student university policy and was a member of the University Policy Commission of the Association of Swiss Student Unions (VSS) from 1984 to 1987 and a delegate of the VSS in the committee and plenary assembly of the Swiss University Conference . For postgraduate studies , Späth stayed again between 1987 and 1991 in Paris, now at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales . He received his doctorate in 1991 in Basel with a dissertation on masculinity and femininity at Tacitus. On the construction of the sexes in the Roman Empire . From 1992 to 1997 Späth was a half-time secretary of the Education Union in Basel, and in 1996/97 he also worked as a research assistant ( Chercheur associé ) at the Center national de la recherche scientifique in Strasbourg . Between 1996 and 1998 Späth held teaching positions at the University of Basel and the University of Upper Alsace in Mulhouse . He was then a member of the Istituto Svizzero di Roma until 2000 . In 2000 he became an assistant at the Department of Ancient History at the University of Basel, and between 2003 and 2005 he held teaching positions at the University of Zurich and the University of Bern . In 2005 he completed his habilitation in Basel. From 2005 to 2008, Späth had a teaching position for secondary teacher training at the history seminar of the University of Basel, from 2006 to 2008 he was head of the master’s course in Ancient Cultural Studies ( tri-national master in Classical Studies ) at the University’s Department of Classical and Oriental Studies. In 2007 he became an assistant professor of Roman history at the Université Marc Bloch in Strasbourg. Since September he has been a lecturer in ancient cultures and ancient constructions at the Center for Global Studies at the University of Bern and has also been an associated professor there since 2009.

Späth primarily conducts research on the gender history of antiquity, on theories and methods of historiography and practices of ancient historiography, on historical-anthropological questions on Greek and Roman antiquity, and on the imagery of antiquity in popular culture of the 20th century. His book Frauenwelten in der Antike, edited with Beate Wagner-Hasel . Gender order and female life practice has already seen several editions.

Fonts

• Masculinity and femininity in Tacitus. On the construction of the sexes in the Roman Empire. Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1994, ISBN 3-593-35193-5 ( History and Gender. Vol. 9).
• Thomas Späth, Beate Wagner-Hasel (ed.): Women's worlds in antiquity. Gender order and female life practice. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-476-01677-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Späth in the catalog of the German National Library
• Late on the website of the University of Bern