Bernhard Kytzler

Bernhard Kytzler (born August 16, 1929 in Hindenburg -Mathesdorf) is a German classical philologist .

Bernhard Kytzler was at the Free University of Berlin in 1956 with a thesis on the Thebais of Statius doctorate . In 1964/1965 he was a fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University . He completed his habilitation in 1970 at the Free University of Berlin and taught there as a professor from 1971 (retired in 1992). He was visiting professor at the Universities of Frankfurt (1966/1967), Fordham (1968/1969), Changchun (People's Republic of China, 1987 and 1995/1996 at the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations ) and since 1992 at the University of Natal in Durban , South Africa.

Kytzler deals with a wide range of topics within Classical Philology, in particular with Neo-Latin and the afterlife of antiquity. He has also published numerous translations of ancient authors. In 1965 he published the first Latin-German edition of Octavius ​​by Marcus Minucius Felix . He is a member of the Historical Commission for Silesia .

Works (selection)

• Ancient women. From Aspasia to Zenobia. Artemis & Winkler, 1994. New edition: (= Patmos Paperback ), Patmos Verlagsgruppe, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-491-69043-9 .
• Reclam's Lexicon of Greek and Roman Authors . Reclam, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-15-029618-8 . New edition: Reclam, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-15-017669-6 .
• Sermones Salisburgenses XII. Twelve lectures on classical texts and their afterlife (= In context . Volume 25). Verlag Mueller-Speiser, Anif / Salzburg 2004, ISBN 3-85145-091-4 .
• with Lutz Redemund: Our daily Latin: Lexicon of the Latin language heritage . 5th edition. Zabern, Mainz 2007, ISBN 978-3-8053-1301-8 .
• with Lutz Redemund, Nikolaus Eberl: Our daily Greek. Lexicon of the Greek Language Heritage. 3. Edition. Zabern, Mainz 2007, ISBN 978-3-8053-2816-6

Editorships

• Carmina Priapea : Poems to the garden god (= The Library of the Old World . Series of collections and anthologies ). Artemis-Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7608-3651-8 .
• In the realm of eros . 2 volumes. Winkler, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-538-05332-4 / ISBN 3-538-05333-2 .
• Eduard Norden (1868–1941). A German scholar of Jewish origin (= Palingenesia . Volume 49). Steiner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-515-06588-1 .
• Roman Poetry - Latin / German (selection and ed.), Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-15-008995-6
• (Ed. And transl.): Horace . All works . Improved and updated new edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 2006
• Plato : The allegory of the cave . All myths and parables (= Insel-Taschenbuch . No. 3428). Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-458-35128-3 .

literature

• Richard Faber , Bernd Seidensticker (Ed.): Words, Images, Sounds . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1996, ISBN 3-8260-1179-1 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernhard Kytzler in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

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