Adolf Koehnken
Adolf Köhnken (born January 28, 1938 in Buxtehude ; † August 5, 2017 ) was a German classical philologist .
Adolf Köhnken studied classical philology at the University of Hamburg and received his doctorate in 1963 . His academic teacher was Hartmut Erbse . His dissertation on the Hellenistic poets Apollonios of Rhodes and Theocrites was published in 1965 in the Hypomnemata series . Investigations into antiquity and their afterlife . From 1966 to 1967 Köhnken worked as a research assistant at the Technical University of Berlin .
1969 Köhnken went as a research assistant at the University of Bonn , where he met with the Scriptures and in 1970 the function of myth in Pindar habilitated . In 1971 he was appointed adjunct professor, in 1973 as a university lecturer, and in 1980 as a professor. In 1982 he was visiting professor at Harvard University . In the winter semester 1992/93 Köhnken accepted a position at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster , where he worked until his retirement (2003).
Köhnken was co-editor of the magazine Hermes and the series of texts and comments . His main research interests were Greek poetry, especially poetry, epic poetry, Hellenistic poetry and Greco-Roman historiography. He also dealt with storytelling techniques, ancient literary criticism and Greek drama. Köhnken was a member of the Görres Society .
Fonts (selection)
- Apollonios Rhodios and Theocritus. The Hylas and Amykos stories of both poets and the question of priority . Göttingen 1965 ( Hypomnemata 12; dissertation, University of Hamburg)
- The function of the myth in Pindar. Interpretations of 6 Pindar poems . Berlin / New York 1971 (habilitation thesis, University of Bonn)
- Representation goals and narrative strategies in ancient texts . Berlin / New York 2006
literature
- Anja Bettenworth : Adolf Köhnken † In: Gnomon . Vol. 91 (2019), pp. 92-95.
Web links
- Literature by and about Adolf Köhnken in the catalog of the German National Library
Remarks
- ↑ Annual and conference report of the Görres Society 2017 , p. 81.
First chair: Hermann Ludwig Nadermann (1821–1853) | Ferdinand Deycks (1843–1867) | Peter Langen (1868–1897) | Peter Sonnenburg (1898–1928) | Franz Beckmann (1931–1963) | Hermann Tränkle (1963–1972) | Christian Gnilka (1972-2002) | Christine Schmitz (since 2002)
Second chair: Franz Winiewski (1838–1874) | Johann Matthias Stahl (1874–1906) | Wilhelm Kroll (1906–1913) | Richard Wünsch (1913–1915) | Hermann Schöne (1916–1935) | Walter Eberhardt (1937–1946) | Friedrich Mehmel (1947–1951) | Richard Harder (1952–1957) | Gerhard Müller (1958–1962) | Martin Sicherheitsl (1963–1982) | Wolfgang Huebner (1986-2004) | Alexander Arweiler (since 2004)
Third chair (until 1918 extraordinary): Franz Ignaz Schwerdt (1861–1868) | Adalbert Parmet (1869–1898) | Carl Hosius (1897–1906) | Ludwig Radermacher (1906–1909) | Karl Münscher (1909–1936) | Rudolf Güngerich (1951–1953) | Hermann Kleinknecht (1953–1960) | Heinrich Dörrie (1961–1980) | Hermann Wankel (1981–1991) | Adolf Köhnken (1992–2002) | Christian Pietsch (since 2003)
Fourth chair: Otto Hiltbrunner (1962–1979)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koehnken, Adolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Köhnken, Adolf Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buxtehude |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th August 2017 |