Anja Wolkenhauer

Anja Wolkenhauer (born August 7, 1967 in Hamburg ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

Anja Wolkenhauer completed an apprenticeship as an antiquarian bookseller in Hamburg from 1986 to 1989 and then worked in Hamburg and Berlin while studying. Her field of work was manuscripts, early prints and prints. From 1989 to 1996 she studied classical philology, art history and the history of the natural sciences at the universities of Hamburg and Florence as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . Starting in 1996, she received her doctorate from the Graduate School on Greek and Byzantine Text Transmission, History of Science, Research on Humanism and New Latin in Hamburg, temporarily interrupted by research grants from the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani .

Wolkenhauer wrote her doctoral thesis on the reception of Greek and Roman literature and culture in printer characters of the 15th and 16th centuries. For her dissertation, completed in 2000, she was awarded the Helmut and Hannelore Greve Foundation for Science and Culture in 2001 at the suggestion of the Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences . From 2001 to 2002, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the graduate school The Commentary in Antiquity and the Middle Ages at the Ruhr University in Bochum . From 2002 to 2010 she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Greek and Latin Philology at the University of Hamburg, where, among other things, she carried out the third-party funded project Introduction to Ancient Roman Culture - What Benefits Does Blended Learning Bring ? performed. In 2006 she was elected to the board of the Hamburg section of the German Classical Philology Association.

Her habilitation thesis dealt with the order of times in the literature of Roman antiquity. It was completed in 2008 with the support of the Kalkhof Rose Scholarship from the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature and was published in print in 2011. In February 2009, Wolkenhauer received the venia legendi for the subjects Classical Philology and Neo-Latin Philology. In the summer semester 2009 she accepted the invitation to a TEA visiting professorship at the University of Tübingen . On April 1, 2010, she was appointed to the chair for Latin studies at the University of Tübingen (W3 professorship). In her research she deals with historical research on time (social time systems, time measurement , literary and cultural drafts of sleep and night ), natural knowledge as an object of Latin literature, the concepts of invention and transmission (tradition), the history of the effects of hieroglyphics as one 'other antiquity' as well as the historical processing of the v. a. orally transmitted Latin memorabilia . Building on her many years of activity as an antiquarian, she also conducts research in the field of premodern media history (history of reading, text and image, emblematics , humanism and early book printing).

Anja Wolkenhauer is married and has two children.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Too difficult for Apollo. Antiquity in humanistic printer's marks of the 16th century . Wiesbaden 2002 (= Wolfenbütteler Schriften zur Geschichte des Buchwesen 35; also dissertation, University of Hamburg), ISBN 3-447-04717-8 .
• Sun and moon, calendar and clock. Studies on the representation and poetic reflection of the order of time in Roman literature . Berlin / New York 2010 (= Studies on Ancient Literature and History 103; also habilitation thesis, University of Hamburg), ISBN 978-3-11-024712-1 .

Editorships

• with Bernhard F. Scholz: Typographorum emblemata. The Printer's Mark in the Context of Early Modern Culture . Berlin / New York 2018 (= Schriftmedien 4 ), ISBN 978-3-11-043027-1 .
• with Irmgard Männlein-Robert: Spudasmata . Studies in classical philology and its border areas.
• with Marc Föcking, Jürgen Leonhardt, Ulrich Pfisterer: Wolfenbüttler Renaissance Mitteilungen (WRM).
• with Dorothee Gall : Laocoon in literature and art . Writings of the symposium “Laocoon in Literature and Art” 2006, Berlin / New York 2009 (= contributions to antiquity 254), ISBN 978-3-11-021037-8 .
• with Antje Theise: Emblemata Hamburgensia. Emblem books and applied emblematics in early modern Hamburg . With an inventory catalog of the emblem books in the SUB. Catalog for the exhibition in the SUB Carl von Ossietzky, Kiel 2009; ISBN 978-3-937719-92-4 .
• with Michaela Scheibe: Signa vides . Researching and recording printers' devices. Papers presented on 17-18 March 2015 at the CERL Workshop, hosted by the National Library of Austria, Vienna, London 2015 (= CERL Studies)

Web links

• Literature by and about Anja Wolkenhauer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Anja Wolkenhauer at the University of Tübingen