Antonie Wlosok

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Antonie Marianne Elisabeth Wlosok (born November 17, 1930 in Rokietnica , Province of Posen , † February 7, 2013 in Mainz ) was a German classical philologist .

Antonie Wlosok was born the second of four children. After fleeing the war, she came across the border to Bavaria and then to Westphalia. She graduated from high school in 1950. She then studied Protestant theology at the Wuppertal Church University . Then she studied in Freiburg, among other things, the subjects of classical theology and German. In Freiburg, Karl Büchner aroused her interest in Latin studies. She began studying Classical Philology at the University of Heidelberg , where she received her doctorate on June 25, 1958 with the dissertation Laktanz and the philosophical Gnosis . She then worked as a research assistant in Heidelberg and completed her habilitation in 1964 with a thesis on the goddess Venus in Virgil's Aeneid . She turned down a call to the University of Mannheim for the winter semester 1967/1968. In the summer semester of 1968 she taught in the successor to Manfred Fuhrmann as a substitute professor for classical philology at the University of Kiel . From 1972 to 1973 she was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. From 1974 until her retirement in 1998 she taught as the successor to Willy Schetter as full professor for Latin studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . Along with Ilona Opelt (Düsseldorf), she was one of the first German women to hold a chair in Classical Philology. On the occasion of her retirement in 1998, she founded the Antonie Wlosok Foundation to promote research into late antiquity and the history of reception .

Wlosok's research focused on Roman literature of the Augustan period and on the relationship between paganism and Christianity in late antiquity. Her best-known writings include, in addition to her dissertation, which appeared in an expanded form in the treatises of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences in 1960 , among others The Goddess Venus in Virgil's Aeneid (Heidelberg 1967), Rome and the Christians (in the series The ancient language teaching , series 13, Supplement 1 [1970]) and Roman Imperial Cult (Darmstadt 1976). She also created editions on Laktanz, Catullus and Virgil . Your small writings appeared in 1990 under the title Res humanae - res divinae , edited by Eberhard Heck and Ernst A. Schmidt . Since 1985 she has been a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. From 1982 to 2010 she was a member of the Patristic Commission .

Fonts

  • The goddess Venus in Virgil's Aeneid (= library of classical antiquity . NF, 21). Winter, Heidelberg 1970 (at the same time: Heidelberg, University, habilitation paper, from July 15, 1964).
  • Rome and the Christians. On the conflict between Christianity and the Roman state. Klett, Stuttgart 1970.
  • Lactance and the Philosophical Gnosis. Investigations into the history and terminology of the Gnostic concept of salvation (= treatises of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class. Born 1960, treatise 2). Winter, Heidelberg 1960 (partly at the same time: Heidelberg, University, dissertation, 1957).

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  1. ↑ Wilfried Stroh: Antonie Wlosok † . In: Gnomon Vol. 85 (2013), pp. 761–767, she names p. 761 the first woman. However, Ilona Opelt had already been appointed to the newly founded chair at the University of Düsseldorf in the spring of 1968, see Kratylos . Volume 13 (1968), p. 222.
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SURNAME Wlosok, Antonie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wlosok, Antonie Marianne Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Rokietnica
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2013
Place of death Mainz