Klaus Sallmann

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Klaus Günther Sallmann (born September 24, 1934 in Thakhek in Laos ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

Sallmann was born as the son of the mining engineer Karl-Heinz Sallmann and his wife Ruth. Sallmann born. He attended elementary school in Cologne and after the first year at grammar school he moved to Marburg , where he attended grammar school Philippinum . He passed his Abitur at Easter 1954 at the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium in Aachen . He spent his first year of study in Tübingen , the second in Basel , the third again in Tübingen, the last two in Cologne . He attended events with, among others, Wolfgang Schadewaldt , Hans Krahe , Otto Friedrich Bollnow , Karl Jaspers , Josef Kroll , Andreas Rumpf , Hellfried Dahlmann , Hans Herter and Albrecht Dihle . His dissertation, supervised by Dihle and Dahlmann, Nature at Lucretius , which he defended on December 19, 1959, appeared in the Archive for Conceptual History in 1961 .

In 1968 Sallmann completed his habilitation in Mainz . In 1971 he became a scientific councilor and professor, in 1973 an adjunct professor at the University of Mainz , where he retired in 1999. From 1981 to 1983 Sallmann was dean of the Philology III faculty at the University of Mainz. From 1976 he was a member of the Academia Latinitati Fovendae and from 1992 of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt .

Sallmann has dealt with Lucretius , the Augustan poetry ( Horace , Ovid ), the older Pliny and Censorinus , among others . He also takes care of promoting Latin as a living language .

Fonts (selection)

  • The nature at Lucretius. Natura and the concept of nature . In: Archive for the history of concepts . Volume 7 (1961). (= Diss. Cologne 1959)
  • Censorinus, De die natali. Considerations on the day of birth . Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3322004554 .
  • with Udo Reinhardt : Musa iocosa. Works on humor and wit, comedy and comedy of antiquity. Andreas Thierfelder on his 70th birthday on June 15, 1973. Hildesheim 1974, ISBN 3487051184
  • Classical authors of antiquity. Frankfurt 1992.
  • Small encyclopedia of ancient authors. Literary portraits from Homer to Boethius. Frankfurt 1996, ISBN 3458335560
  • The literature of upheaval. From Roman to Christian literature. 117–283 AD (= HLL 4) Munich 1997, ISBN 978-3-406-39020-3

literature

  • Jürgen Blänsdorf (Ed.): Loquela vivida. Donum natalicium Nicolao Sallmann sexagesimum quintum annum agenti a fautoribus linguae Latinae vivae oblatum . Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 1999, ISBN 3-8260-1721-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Sallmann, Klaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sallmann, Klaus Günther (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Thakhek , Laos