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

Basel , french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...

. He studied

ancient history Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history to as far as late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the Sumerian cuneiform script. Ancient history cove ...

and

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

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...

and

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...

, completing a doctorate on the Galatians 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 ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Basileía tôn Rhōmaíōn) was the post- Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large territorial holdings around the Mediter ...

and of

Asia Minor Anatolia, tr, Anadolu Yarımadası), and the Anatolian plateau, also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula in Western Asia and the westernmost protrusion of the Asian continent. It constitutes the major part of modern-day Turkey. The re ...

. 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 for a period of about six centuries, beginning with the step-by-step conquest of the area by Roman armies from the 2nd century BC and ending with the Fall of the Wes ...

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

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