Anton Bierl

Anton Harald F. Bierl (born March 11, 1960 in Munich ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

Bierl studied Classical Philology and Ancient History at the LMU Munich from 1980–86, and in Urbino from 1982–83 . In 1986 he passed the first state examination in Munich, and in 1987 he received his Magister Artium. From 1987–91 he completed a doctoral degree in Greek, Latin and Ancient History in Munich. His dissertation (1990) received the grade “ summa cum laude ”.

From September 1990 to August 1991 he was Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois , October 1991 to January 1994 research assistant at the Institute for Classical Philology at the University of Leipzig . As part of a post-doctoral fellowship sponsored by the German Research Foundation, he stayed from February 1994 to January 1996 as a visiting scientist at Harvard University . In February 1996 he continued his assistantship in Leipzig, which was completed by his habilitation in 1999.

In the winter semester 1999/2000 and in the summer semester 2000 he represented the chair of Greek studies at the University of Heidelberg . From April 2000 to September 2002 he was senior assistant at the Institute for Classical Philology at the University of Leipzig. Since October 2002, he has succeeded Joachim Latacz as Full Professor of Greek Philology at the University of Basel .

Bierl is a member of the American Philological Association , the Mommsen Society and the Swiss Association for Classical Studies .

Research focus and editing activities

Bierl deals with the connections between ancient religion, ancient myth and ancient literature, in particular with the poetics of ritual , with the genres drama, lyric and epic ( Homer ) and with the ancient novel. In addition, the Dionysus cult, the modern staging of ancient dramas and anthropological, cultural-scientific-comparative and literary-theoretical questions form a field of his work.

1993-94 Bierl was in a Festschrift for Hellmut Flashar a Band "Orchestra. Drama-Mythos-Bühne ”with 32 contributions from various colleagues. In 2002–03 he edited the collection “Ancient Literature in a New Interpretation” for Joachim Latacz, with 18 contributions from European and American researchers. In 2005 he founded the series “Basiliensia - MythosEikonPoiesis” and published in it in 2007 the text “Literature and Religion. Paths to a mythical-ritual poetics among the Greeks ”.

Web links

• Literature by and about Anton Bierl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Anton Bierl at the University of Basel
• academia.edu