A. N. Sherwin-White

Adrian Nicholas Sherwin- White ( born August 10, 1911 in Brentford, † November 1, 1993 in Fyfield ) was a British historian.

The son of a lawyer in 1930 to Oxford at the St John 's College to study Literae Humaniores ( studying with classical content, ancient history and philosophy). He earned his doctorate at Hugh load with a work that was published in 1939 under the title The Roman Citizenship. In 1936 he became a Fellow, as the load took over the venerable Camden Chair of Ancient History at Oxford. In 1937 he obtained a Master. During the Second World War he was freed because of his eyes weakness from military service. 1956 Sherwin -White was elected Fellow of the British Academy. In the following years the other major works Ancient Rome (1959 ), Roman Society and Roman Law New Testament (1963 ) published in the on the reflection of Roman law and the Roman society in the New Testament and Racial Prejudice in Ancient Rome ( 1967) on racial prejudice in imperial Rome. However, his major work was the historical commentary on the letters of Pliny the Younger. From 1966 to 1979 he was Reader in Ancient History at Oxford University. Sherwin- White was 1974-1977 president of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, and since 1977 member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

His research focus was mainly the area of the Roman constitutional and social history. His work The Roman Citizenship of the Roman civil law is one of the standard works on Roman constitutional history. He also wrote a large number of articles and reviews in the Journal of Roman Studies.

Writings

• Roman foreign policy in the East, 168 B.C. to A.D. 1 London 1984, ISBN 0-7156-1682- X.
• The Roman citizenship. 2nd edition, Oxford 1973, ISBN 0-19-814813-5.
• Racial Prejudice in Imperial Rome. Cambridge in 1970, Repr d ed v. 1967, ISBN 0-521-06438-4.
• The letters of Pliny. A historical and social commentary. Oxford 1966.