Jan Assmann is an egyptologist, cultural scientist and scientist of religions and has engaged in the topic of civic strength in ancient Egypt in numerous publications. Civic strength - which could be the translation of the ancient-egyptian concept of Ma'at - is the central topic of ancient-egyptian culture, which formed the first big state of history and which had to primarily care about the principles of social cohesion and the virtues of togetherness. Although the egyptian tradition of Ma'at may only be the possibly oldest and most explicit formulation of thoughts and motives which are spread in all cultures in the form of traditions of moral and wisdom. Jan Assmann has analyzed and unfolded this term in numerous books and articles.