Wolfgang Bernard

Wolfgang Heinrich Edgar Bernard (born April 23, 1960 in Ingelheim am Rhein ) is a German classical philologist and has been Professor of Greek Studies at the University of Rostock since 1994 .

Life

Wolfgang Bernard studied at the University of Mainz , where he received his doctorate in 1984 with Aristotle's dissertation Receptivity and Spontaneity of Perception . He then stayed for a year as a postdoctoral candidate at the Institute of Classical Studies in London. After his return he conducted research in Mainz with DFG scholarships. After his habilitation on the topic: “ Late antique poetry theories. Studies on Proklos, Herakleitos and Plutarch . ”(1992) he switched to the University of Marburg as a private lecturer . In 1994 he was appointed professor of Greek studies at the University of Rostockhe accepted. Bernard has been director of the Heinrich Schliemann Institute for Classical Studies at the University of Rostock since 2007; he already held this position from 1995–2002. Bernard has been a board member of the Society of Sponsors of the University of Rostock since 2006. He is also a member of the Mommsen Society and the Society for Ancient Philosophy . Bernard's main research interests are ancient philosophy including its reception, Attic tragedy and Homer . Bernard is the grandson of the Basel economist Edgar Salin .

Publications (selection)

• Plato, Kriton , translation and commentary, Vandenhoeck & R., Göttingen 2016
• The end of Oedipus with Sophocles. Study on the interpretation of the "Oedipus on Colonos" , Munich 2001 (Zetemata 107).
• Preliminary considerations for a reinterpretation of the Platonic State Theory , in: Barbara Bauer & Wolfgang Müller (Eds.), State Theoretical Discourses in the Mirror of National Literature from 1500 to 1800 , Wiesbaden 1998 (Wolfenbütteler Forschungen 79), 23–39.
• Homer , in: Metzler Lexikon Antique Authors , ed. v. Oliver Schütze, Stuttgart / Weimar 1997.
• Late antique poetry theories. Investigations on Proklos, Herakleitos and Plutarch , Stuttgart 1990 (contributions to antiquity, vol. 3).
• Receptivity and spontaneity of perception in Aristotle. Attempt to determine the spontaneous cognitive performance of perception in Aristotle in contrast to the receptive interpretation of sensuality in Descartes and Kant , Baden-Baden 1988 (Saecula Spiritalia, Vol. 19).

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2009 . tape 1 . Saur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23629-7 , pp. 551 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Bernard in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Wolfgang Bernard in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
• Literature about Wolfgang Bernard in the state bibliography MV
• altertum.uni-rostock.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.gfur.de/ Homepage of the Society of Patrons of the University of Rostock eV