Thomas Baier
Thomas Baier (* 1967 in Gernsbach ) is a German classical philologist .
Life
After graduating from high school in 1986 and completing his military service, he began studying Latin , Greek , history and Latin philology of the Middle Ages at the Universities of Freiburg , Munich , Pittsburgh (1991, Marshall Fellowship for Classics) and Rome ( 1991) as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation 1991/1992, Borsa del ministero italiano degli affari esteri). In 1993 he passed the first state examination for Latin and history in Freiburg, and in 1994 for Greek. He became a research assistant in Freiburg and received his doctorate in 1995 with the dissertation Work and Effects of Varros in the Mirror of His Contemporaries . From 1998 to 1999 he received a postdoctoral fellowship from the German Research Foundation for a research stay in Paris. In 1998 and 2000 he also worked as part of a lecturer exchange at the Istituto di Filologia classica of the University of Palermo . After his habilitation (1999), he represented the chair for Latin Philology at the University of Leipzig from 2001 to 2002 . In September 2002 he accepted a call to the University of Bamberg as a full professor. He turned down an offer from the University of Vienna in 2003 . In 2004 and 2016 he was visiting professor at the École normal supérieure (Paris) . In the 2008/2009 winter semester, he accepted a professorship for Classical Philology II (with a focus on Latin Studies) at the University of Würzburg .
Baier is co-editor of the Zetemata and edition antike series as well as the Würzburg yearbooks for classical studies. His main research interests include ancient historiography, the Roman epic and neo-Latin literature.
Web links
- Literature by Thomas Baier in the catalog of the German National Library
- Thomas Baier at the University of Würzburg
Latin Studies: Rudolf Rieks (1978–2002) | Thomas Baier (2003-2008) | Markus Schauer (since 2009)
Greek Studies: Klaus Döring (1981–2003) | Sabine Föllinger (2003–2011) | Sabine Vogt (since 2012)
First chair: Bonaventura Andres (1783–1809) | Ferdinand Blümm (1809–1821) | Peter von Richarz (1821–1835; previously since 1817 associate professor) | Ernst von Lasaulx (1837–1844; previously since 1835 associate professor) | Franz Josef Hermann Reuter (1844–1867) | Wilhelm Studemund (1869–1870; previously since 1868 associate professor) | Martin Schanz (1874–1912; previously since 1870 associate professor) | Carl Hosius (1913–1933) | Josef Martin (1933–1952) | Rudolf Güngerich (1953–1968) | Carl Joachim Classen (1969–1973) | Udo W. Scholz (1974-2007) | Thomas Baier (since 2008)
Second chair (until 1899 also for classical archeology, 1900–1919 extraordinary professorship): Ludwig von Urlichs (1855–1889) | Karl Sittl (1889–1899) | Thomas Stangl (1900–1921)
Third chair: Franz Boll (1903–1908) | Otto Stählin (1908–1913) | Engelbert Drerup (1913–1923) | Friedrich Pfister (1924–1951) | Franz Dirlmeier (1951–1959) | Ernst Siegmann (1960–1981) | Thomas A. Szlezák (1983–1990) | Michael Erler (1991–2019) | Jan Stenger (since 2020)
Professorship for Classical Philology: Bernd Manuwald (1981–1983) | Ludwig Braun (1985-2008) | Christian Tornau (since 2009)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baier, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gernsbach |