Burkhart Cardauns
Burkhart Cardauns (born July 18, 1932 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German classical philologist .
Life
Burkhart Cardauns studied classical philology at the universities of Cologne and Munich . In 1958 he received his doctorate in Cologne with the dissertation Varros Logistoricus on the worship of gods (Curio de cultu deorum) , which appeared in 1960. He achieved his habilitation in 1967 at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg with the font M. Terentius Varro, Antiquitates rerum divinarum. Edition of the fragments and commentary . When the Faculty of Classical Philology was founded at the University of Mannheim in 1969, he was appointed Scientific Councilor there. In 1971 he was appointed adjunct professor.
Cardauns became a full professor and holder of the chair for Classical Philology II at the University of Mannheim in 1974. In February 2001 he retired .
Cardauns is one of the leading experts on the Roman polymath Marcus Terentius Varro . He has written several text editions and commentaries on various Varro's writings and is a member of the Centro di Studi Varroniani. He is also an expert at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz .
literature
- Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , Edition 2007, Volume 1, p. 501.
Web links
- Literature by and about Burkhart Cardauns in the catalog of the German National Library
First chair: Ernst Vogt (1967–1975) | Hans-Jürgen Horn (1975-2001)
Second chair (Councilor until 1974): Clemens Zintzen (1968–1969) | Burkhart Cardauns (1971-2001)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cardauns, Burkhart |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gelsenkirchen |