Felix Stähelin (also spelled Staehelin, 28 December 1873 – 20 February 1952) was a Swiss historian of

Basel Basel ( ; ), also known as Basle ( ), ; ; ; . is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine (at the transition from the High Rhine, High to the Upper Rhine). Basel is Switzerland's List of cities in Switzerland, third-most-populo ...

. He studied

ancient history Ancient history is a time period from the History of writing, beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the development of Sumerian language, ...

and

classical philology Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek and Roman literature and their original languages, ...

Bonn Bonn () is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This ...

and

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, completing a doctorate on the

Galatia Galatia (; , ''Galatía'') was an ancient area in the highlands of central Anatolia, roughly corresponding to the provinces of Ankara and Eskişehir in modern Turkey. Galatia was named after the Gauls from Thrace (cf. Tylis), who settled here ...

ns in 1897. He worked as a school teacher from 1902–1907, and as a lecturer at Basel from 1907, receiving tenure as professor of Ancient History in 1931, retiring in 1937. He published works about the history of the

Roman Empire The Roman Empire ruled the Mediterranean and much of Europe, Western Asia and North Africa. The Roman people, Romans conquered most of this during the Roman Republic, Republic, and it was ruled by emperors following Octavian's assumption of ...

and of

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. He is best known for his 1927 work on

Switzerland in the Roman era The territory of modern Switzerland was a part of the Roman Republic and Empire An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outpost (military), outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided ...

. During 1929–1934 he also co-edited the collected works of

Jacob Burckhardt Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (; ; 25 May 1818 – 8 August 1897) was a Swiss historian of art and culture and an influential figure in the historiography of both fields. His best known work is '' The Civilization of the Renaissance in ...

Bibliography

*1897 ''Geschichte der Kleinasiatischen Galater bis zur Errichtung der römischen Provinz Asia'' * 1903 ''Geschichte der Basler Familie Stehelin und Stähelin '' * 1927 ''Die Schweiz in römischer Zeit'' *1956 (ed. Wilhelm Abt) ''Reden und Vorträge''

References

* Eberhard Zellweger: ''Zur Erinnerung an Professor Dr. Felix Staehelin-Schwarz, geboren den 28. Dezember 1873, gestorben den 20. Februar 1952''. Privatdruck, Basel 1952 * Rudolf Laur-Belart: "Worte der Erinnerung an Prof. Dr. Felix Stähelin (1873–1952)". In: ''Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde''. Band 51 (1952), S. 5–8 * ''"''Felix Staehelin 1873–1952". In: ''Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte''. Band 2 (1953), S. 264–267 * Jochen Bleicken,

Martin Staehelin Martin Staehelin (born 25 September 1937) is a Swiss musicologist and university lecturer. Life Born in Basel, Staehelin first studied ancient languages, history, school music and flute. In 1967, he received his doctorate in musicology and anci ...

: "Ein unbekannter Brief von Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff an Felix Staehelin über die 'Geschichte der kleinasiatischen Galater'". In: ''Klio''. volume 76 (1994), (Jochen Bleicken: ''Gesammelte Schriften''. Stuttgart 1998, ) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Stahelin, Felix 20th-century Swiss historians Swiss male writers Academic staff of the University of Basel 1873 births 1952 deaths Members of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin Swiss expatriates in the German Empire