Axel Schönberger

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Axel Schönberger (* 1963 in Frankfurt am Main ; pseudonym: Axelius Pulchrimontanus ) is a German linguist .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1981 at the humanistic Lessing-Gymnasium (Frankfurt am Main) he studied classical and Romance philology ( Latin , Greek , French , Italian , Hispanic , Lusitan and Catalan studies ) at the universities of Mainz , Rome and Frankfurt am Main from 1982 to 1988 the fellow studienstiftung and German Academic exchange service (between civilian 1986-1987). In 1988 he completed his Magister Artium in Latin Philology , Greek Philology , Hispanic Literature, Languages ​​and Cultures at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. After completing his doctorate in philosophy in 1993 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main for French literary studies and his habilitation in 1998 for Romance philology at the University of Bremen , he was awarded the Augsburg University Prize for Spanish, Portugal and Latin American Studies by the Albert- Leimer Foundation awarded. Since 2003 he has been teaching as a professor in Bremen (Romance Philology). He is co-editor of the magazine Lusorama - magazine for Lusitanistics . Since the 2004/2005 winter semester, he has been holding regular Latinist courses at Faculty 9 of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. In the winter semester 2007/2008 and in the summer semester 2008 he was a full professor for Spanish, Hispanic American, Portuguese and Brazilian linguistics at the University of Leipzig . Many years of experience on the board of several Romance specialist associations (German Hispanic Association, German Catalan Association, German Lusitanist Association).

His main research interests are Latin linguistics, Latin teaching materials and methods, ancient and medieval grammars of Latin and Greek, the Latin tradition of the Romance grammars of the Middle Ages and the early modern period, Neo-Latin literature from the Romance countries, and Romance linguistics and literary studies.

Since 2017 he has been teaching Trivium at the Humboldt School in Wiesbaden .

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