Bernhard Herzhoff

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Bernhard Herzhoff (born July 15, 1944 in Dattenfeld ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

Herzhoff studied Classical Philology , Catholic Theology and Biology at the Universities of Bonn and Freiburg in Switzerland from 1964 to 1973 , including the state examinations in Latin, Greek and biology as well as a doctorate in Classical Philology with Hartmut Erbse . In 1973 he took up the state school service at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Trier with classes in Latin, Greek and biology. In 1984/1985 there was a change as senior student adviser to the university and finally as academic director at the University of Trier ; there he taught classical philology until he retired on December 1, 2007. For several years he has been working on the translation and commentary on De Plantis for the Berlin academy edition of Aristotle .

From 1994 to 2007 Herzhoff was co-editor of the series Ancient Science and its Reception (AKAN). He wrote several articles on plant species for the specialist encyclopedia “ Der Neue Pauly ”.

Fonts (selection)

• Two Gnostic Psalms. Interpretation and investigation of Hippolytus, Refutatio V 10.2 and VI 37.7 (dissertation), Bonn 1973.
• with Heinrich Schnitzler: The subalpine birch-rhododendron forests in the Dagwan Valley / West Himalaya, in: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Dendrologische Gesellschaft 72 (1981), pages 171–186.
• The Easter homily of Melito of Sardis. Early Christianity in the dichotomy of appropriation and demarcation, in: Der Altsprachliche Studium XXV 1 (1982), pp. 42–54, and text supplement pp. 68–78.
• Lotus. Botanical observations on a Homeric plant name, in: Hermes. Journal of Classical Philology 112 (1984), pages 257-271.
• To identify ancient plant names, in: Döring, Klaus / Georg Wöhrle (eds.): Lectures of the first symposium of the Bamberg working group 'Ancient Science and Their Reception' (AKAN), Wiesbaden 1990, pages 9–32 (Gratia 21).
• Phegos: To identify a controversial tree name, in: Hermes. Journal of Classical Philology 118 (1990), pages 257-272 and pages 385-404.
• Botanical appendix for the identification of aromatic plants, in: Theophrast, De odoribus. Edited, translated and commented on by Ulrich Eigler and Georg Wöhrle, Stuttgart 1993, pages 78-95 (contributions to antiquity 37).
• Warrior head and poppy flower - a misunderstood parable of Homer (Iliad 8,306-308), in: Hermes. Journal of Classical Philology 122 (1994), pages 385-403.
• The awakening of biological thinking among the Greeks, in: Georg Wöhrle (Hrsg.): History of mathematics and natural sciences in antiquity I: Biologie, Stuttgart 1999, 13–49.
• Homer's Bird Kymindis, in: Hermes. Journal of Classical Philology 128 (2000), pages 275-294.
• Orient in the Occident: Citrus fruits in Virgil’s Georgica (2, 126–135), in: Sabine Harwardt / Johannes Schwind (eds.): Corona Coronaria. Festschrift for Hans-Otto Kröner on his 75th birthday, Hildesheim 2005, pages 163–187 (Spudasmata 102).
• Is the writing 'De plantis' by Aristotle? In: Ancient Science and its Reception (AKAN), ed. by Jochen Althoff / Bernhard Herzhoff / Georg Wöhrle, Volume XVI, Trier 2006, pages 69-108.
• The river catalog of the Iliad (M 20–23), the oldest literary example of geometric spatial mapping? In: Ancient Science and its Reception (AKAN), ed. by JochenAlthoff / Sabine Föllinger / Georg Wöhrle, Volume XVIII, Trier 2008, pages 101-138.
• The Battlefield of the Trojan War. A New Philological and Geographical Analysis, in: Studia Troica, Volume 19, Tübingen 2011, pages 219-254.
• Who was the Peripatetic Nikolaos, the author of the compendium of the philosophy of Aristotle and editor of his work on plants? In: Ancient Science and its Reception (AKAN), ed. by Jochen Althoff / Sabine Föllinger / Georg Wöhrle, Volume XXVI, Trier 2016, pages 135–187.
• "What remains to be examined ...": Lotus - Botanical Observations on a Controversial Plant Name, in: Ancient natural science and their reception (AKAN), ed. by Jochen Althoff / Sabine Föllinger / Georg Wöhrle, Volume XXVII, Trier 2017, pages 9–32.