Thomas Ernst Josef Wiedemann (14 May 1950 – 28 June 2001[1]) was a German-British historian.
His grandmother was Jewish[2] and his father Heinrich had the luck that he wasn't sent to a concentration camp in the East.
For his research, which would eventually lead to a book entitled 'Adults and Children in the Roman Empire' (1989), he would receive in the Croom Helm Ancient History Prize in 1987 as well as a doctorate from the University of Bristol (although he had not directly aspired to this).
He was to remain at this university for nineteen years, where he taught about the history of the Roman Empire from 1992 onwards.
In 1995, he made an unexpected move to University of Nottingham as Professor of Latin, where he would also be head of classical studies from 1997 onwards.