Bernd Manuwald

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Bernd Manuwald (born March 19, 1942 in Pforzheim ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

Manuwald graduated from high school in Pforzheim in 1961 and studied Greek, Latin and history for teaching at the universities of Freiburg , Vienna , Marburg and Saarbrücken from 1961 to 1969 . In 1966 he passed the first state examination in Latin and Greek in Marburg and then went to Saarbrücken as an assistant, where he received his doctorate in 1969. In 1972 he was appointed assistant professor and research assistant at Saarland University. In 1981 he took over a C3 professorship at the University of Würzburg , and in 1984 a C4 professorship in Düsseldorf . In 1992 he accepted an appointment at the University of Cologne , where he held a C4 professorship for Greek studies until his retirement in 2008 (as the successor to Rudolf Kassel ). Since 1997 Manuwald has been the responsible editor of the Rheinisches Museum für Philologie magazine .

Manuwald is married to the classical philologist Anke Manuwald and has two daughters. The elder, Gesine Manuwald , is currently Senior Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature at University College London. The younger daughter, Henrike Manuwald , has been Professor of German Medieval Studies / Older German Literature and Language at the University of Göttingen since 2016 , after she was junior professor for German Medieval Studies at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .

Manuwald deals with ancient historiography, philosophy and Greek tragedy.

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