Bernd Seidensticker
Bernd Seidensticker (born February 16, 1939 in Hirschberg ) is a German classical philologist .
Live and act
After graduating from high school in 1959 at the Athenaeum in Stade , he studied Classical Philology and German at the Universities of Tübingen and Hamburg . He attended events and a. with Hartmut Erbse , Wolfgang Schadewaldt and Bruno Snell and was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . In 1965 he passed the state examination and became a research assistant in Hamburg. In 1968 he received his doctorate with the dissertation The Condensed Conversation in Seneca's Tragedies , 1973-74 he was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC In 1978 he completed his habilitation in Hamburg with the work Palintonos Harmonia: Studies on comical elements in of the Greek tragedy and was appointed private lecturer, 1980 professor. In 1987 he moved to the Free University of Berlin .
In 1989 he was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton . Since 1993 he has been a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , where he is chairman of the Commission for Classical Studies. 1995–97 he was chairman, 1997–99 vice chairman of the Mommsen Society . In 1999 he was appointed a corresponding member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society .
Together with Widu-Wolfgang Ehlers , he was the managing editor of Philologus for many years .
Seidensticker has held numerous visiting professorships: in Austin (1974–75, 1976–77, 1980, 1986, 1990), Berkeley (1981), Harvard (1986) and Ann Arbor (1992).
Editing
- with Wilfried Nippel : Theodor Mommsen's long shadow. Roman constitutional law as a permanent challenge for research (= Spudasmata . Vol. 107). Olms, Hildesheim et al. 2005, ISBN 3-487-13086-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Bernd Seidensticker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bernd Seidensticker at the Free University of Berlin
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SURNAME | Seidensticker, Bernd |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1939 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hirschberg |