Albert Henrichs

Albert Maximinus Henrichs (born December 29, 1942 in Cologne , † April 16, 2017 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) was a German-American Graecist . He has taught as the Eliot Professor of Greek Literature at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts since 1984 . Henrichs' research focus was on Greek literature and mythology as well as literary papyrus fragments .

After graduating from the Dreikönigsgymnasium in Cologne in 1962, Henrichs studied at the University of Cologne , where he received his doctorate in 1966 and qualified as a professor in 1969 . After brief teaching at the University of Cologne, he went to the University of California, Berkeley as an Associate Professor in 1971 and to Harvard University in 1973, where he was initially Professor of Greek and Latin and from 1984 Eliot Professor of Greek Literature . At times he served as the editor of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology .

Henrichs made numerous contributions to papyrology, which were mainly published in the magazine for papyrology and epigraphy . He also wrote some articles (including Oidipus , Zeus ) in the New Pauly . In 1985 Henrichs was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and in 1998 to the American Philosophical Society .

Fonts

• Didymos the blind. Commentary on Job (Tura papyrus) . 2 volumes, Bonn 1968 (= papyrological texts and treatises 1–2)
• The Phoinikika des Lollianos: Fragments of a new Greek novel . Bonn 1972 (= Papyrological Texts and Treatises 14)
• with Karl Preisendanz : Papyri Graecae magicae. The Greek magic papyri . 2nd, improved edition. 2 volumes, Stuttgart 1973–1974
• Why should i dance? Dionysian in the chorus of Greek tragedy . Leipzig 1996 (= Lectio Teubneriana 4)

Web links

• CV and list of publications on Harvard.edu
• Harvard University death notice, April 19, 2017
• Kathleen M. Coleman : Albert Henrichs, professor of Greek literature, dies at 74 . In: Harvard Gazette . April 26, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Albert M. Henrichs 1942–2017. In: The Boston Globe . April 23, 2017, accessed April 21, 2017 .