Geoffrey Ernest Maurice de Ste. Croix was a British historian who specialized in examining the classical era from a historical materialist perspective. De Ste. Croix was born in Macau and was educated at Clifton College, in Bristol. He left school at the age of 15 and become an articled clerk, which allowed him to train as a solicitor, without a degree in law. In 1926-40, De Ste. Croix practised as a solicitor.

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  • Geoffrey Ernest Maurice de Ste. Croix was a British historian who specialized in examining the classical era from a historical materialist perspective. De Ste. Croix was born in Macau and was educated at Clifton College, in Bristol. He left school at the age of 15 and become an articled clerk, which allowed him to train as a solicitor, without a degree in law. In 1926-40, De Ste. Croix practised as a solicitor. He had a strong physique and was a talented tennis player, who once defeated Fred Perry. De Ste. Croix competed at Wimbledon in 1929. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Air Force, and was stationed for a time in Egypt, where he had the opportunity to expand his knowledge of ancient languages. After the war ended, de Ste. Croix studied ancient history at University College, London. In 1950-53 he taught at the London School of Economics and Birkbeck College, before being appointed a fellow of New College, Oxford. He lived at Oxford for the rest of his life. Within the circles of classical scholarship, de Ste. Croix — as an exponent of a Marxian epistemological approach — was frequently involved in debate with Sir Moses Finley, an advocate of Weberian societal analysis. The two often exchanged letters and their disagreements were always civil. The two books for which de Ste. Croix is best known are The Origins of the Peloponnesian War (1972) and The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World from the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests (1982). He was also a noted contributor on the issue of Christian persecution between the reigns of the Roman Emperors Trajan and Diocletian. Of particular note in this regard are the articles written by de Ste. Croix and A. N. Sherwin-White, each challenging the opinions of the other. There were four in total, displaying just the sort of light-hearted banter evident also in de Ste. Croix's correspondence with Moses Finley.
  • Geoffrey Ernest Maurice de Sainte Croix war ein britischer Althistoriker. Er verließ schon im Alter von 15 Jahren die Schule, fing erst mit 37 Jahren an zu studieren und wurde 1950 am New College in Oxford Tutor, wo er bis zu seiner Pensionierung 1977 verblieb. In seinen stark von Karl Marx beeinflussten Werken bezog Geoffrey de Ste Croix konsequent die Seite der arbeitenden und unterdrückten Bevölkerungsschichten und rückte damit deutlich von der bis daher herrschenden Geschichtsauffassung (vor allem in den westlichen Industrienationen) ab, die eher den Standpunkt der Oberschicht widerspiegelte. Sein The Origins of the Peloponnesian War gilt als eines der Standardwerke zum Peloponnesischen Krieg. 1981 publizierte er The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World, das von der Archaischen Zeit bis in die Spätantike einen weiten Bogen spannt und mit einer Erklärung für den Fall und Untergang des römischen Reiches endet. Das Buch beginnt mit einer detaillierten Untersuchung von marxistischen Begriffen wie Klasse, Produktionsweise und Ausbeutung in Bezug auf die antike Welt und kommt dabei zu zahlreichen neuen und wichtigen Erkenntnissen.
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  • Geoffrey Ernest Maurice de Ste. Croix was a British historian who specialized in examining the classical era from a historical materialist perspective. De Ste. Croix was born in Macau and was educated at Clifton College, in Bristol. He left school at the age of 15 and become an articled clerk, which allowed him to train as a solicitor, without a degree in law. In 1926-40, De Ste. Croix practised as a solicitor.
  • Geoffrey Ernest Maurice de Sainte Croix war ein britischer Althistoriker. Er verließ schon im Alter von 15 Jahren die Schule, fing erst mit 37 Jahren an zu studieren und wurde 1950 am New College in Oxford Tutor, wo er bis zu seiner Pensionierung 1977 verblieb.
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  • G. E. M. de Ste. Croix
  • Geoffrey de Ste Croix
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