Alfons Weische

Alfons Weische (born January 17, 1932 in Menden im Sauerland ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

Alfons Weische first studied philosophy and theology in Rome . Then he switched to classical philology, which he studied at the universities of Münster and Marburg . After the state examination (1959) and his doctorate (1960) he worked as an assistant at the Institute for Classical Studies at the Westphalian Wilhelms University. He received a two-year scholarship from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation . In 1963 he was a student at the Collège de France in Paris. In 1969 he completed his habilitation in Classical Philology. In 1970 he was appointed adjunct professor.

After a substitute professor at the University of Munich , he was appointed Scientific Councilor and Professor of Classical Philology with special emphasis on the academic grammar of the Latin language at the University of Münster in 1974. In 1979/80 he was Dean of the Department of Ancient and Non-European Languages ​​and Cultures . For many years he headed the Latin Word Research Unit . In 1994 he retired.

Weisches research focus is ancient philosophy and rhetoric as well as Latin linguistics . At the center of his research are the writings of Cicero .

Weische also advocates Latin as a living language, u. a. by setting up a Circulus Monasteriensis, which is very popular due to the thematic diversity of the lectures and the liveliness of the discussions. He was a member of the Societas Latina in Saarbrücken and in 1987 co-founder of the Latinitati Vivae Provehendae Associatio (LVPA). For many years he wrote the Latin certificates for the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Münster for the award of the title 'doctor honoris causa', a. a. for Jean Claude Juncker , Wolfgang Thierse and Gerd Mak . As in these documents, his numerous Latin poems are primarily about portraying certain personalities.

Fonts (selection)

• Cicero and the New Academy. Investigations into the origin and history of ancient skepticism . Münster 1961. 2nd, unchanged edition 1975 (dissertation; Orbis antiquus 18)
• Studies on the political language of the Roman Republic . Münster 1966. 2nd, unchanged edition 1975 ( Orbis antiquus 24)
• "Philosophy grecque et politique romaine dans la partie finale du 'Pro Sestio'" (Bulletin de l'Association Guillaume Budé, 4e série, Lettres d'Humanité 29) 1970
• Cicero's imitation of the Attic orator . Heidelberg 1972 (habilitation thesis)
• "On the importance of Roman rhetoric" (Latin and Europe, Traditions and Renaissance) 1978
• "Pliny the Younger and Cicero. Studies on Roman Epistolography in the Republic and Imperial Era" (ANRW II 33.1) 1989
• "Rhetoric and philosophy in antiquity. Amplificatio - dilatatio and the stoic demand of brevitas" (rhetoric and philosophy) 1989
• Article 'Rhetorik, Redekunst' (Historical Dictionary of Philosophy 8) 1992
• Article 'Ambitio' (Augustinus-Lexikon 1) 1986-1994
• Article 'Arbor' (Augustinus-Lexikon 1) 1986-1994
• "A peculiar Latin and Ciceronian in Augustine as the basis for Anselm's proof of God" (Mus. Helv. 57) 2000
• "Emphasis through copia dicendi" (De lingua Latina novae quaestiones) 2001
• "Antonomy-supported metonymies for 'poor' and 'splendid' in Koine and Latin, especially in Petron" (Petroniana) 2003
• "Cur exercitationes Latinas diligam" (Altera Ratio) 2003
• "Notes on the Use of Prepositions in Classical Latin" (Papers on Grammar IX 2) 2005
• "Angelus Camillus Decembrio quomodo inter varias observationes demonstret substantiva officio poetico epithetorum fungi posse" (Alandae) 2005
• Article 'Hospitalitas, hospitium' (Augustinus-Lexikon 3) 2006
• "Congratulations to Carmen:" Guy Licoppe octo decies per annos ", in: Melissa , n ° 163, p. 16, Bruxellis, 2011

literature

• Beate Czapla (Ed.): Vir bonus dicendi peritus. Festschrift for Alfons Weische on his 65th birthday . Wiesbaden 1997

Web links

• Literature by and about Alfons Weische in the catalog of the German National Library
• Press release from the University of Münster on the occasion of Alfons Weische's 65th birthday ( memento from February 9, 2005 in the Internet Archive )