Christian Orth

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Christian Orth (born August 19, 1977 in Munich ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

He attended a primary school in Münster (1984–1988), the Schillergymnasium Münster (until October 1988) and the Wilhelm-Dörpfeld-Gymnasium in Wuppertal (1988–1997). He then did his community service (1997–1998) in care for the elderly at the Evangelical Church Community of Elberfeld-Südstadt. From 1998 to 2004 he studied Classical Philology and Italian Studies at the Universities of Freiburg im Breisgau and Basel . From April to September 2000 and from 2001 to 2004 he was a research assistant at the Department of Classical Philology at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In Rome he had a stay abroad (2000-2001) as part of the Erasmus program at the University of La Sapienza . He passed the state exams in Greek and Latin (November 2004) and Italian (2007). From November 2004 to September 2010 he was a research assistant at the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Freiburg, where he started his work Die Komödien des Strattis in August 2008 . A commentary on the fragments was PhD . Since January 2011 he has been a research assistant at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences in the project Commenting on Fragments of Greek Comedy . After his habilitation in July 2015, he was awarded the Venia legendi in Classical Philology at the University of Freiburg.

His research interests are Greek comedy, fragments and indirect transmission, Greek and Latin metrics, Greek geography, the elegiac Properz , neo-Latin poetry and the composer and cellist Luigi Boccherini .

Fonts (selection)

  • Strattis. The fragments. A commentary (= Studia Comica. Volume 2). Verlag Antike, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-938032-32-9 (also dissertation, Freiburg 2008).
  • Alkaius - Apollophanes. Introduction, translation, commentary (= Fragmenta Comica. Volume 9.1). Verlag Antike, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-938032-63-3 .
  • Aristomenes - Metagenes. Introduction, translation, commentary (= Fragmenta Comica. Volume 9.2). Verlag Antike, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-938032-70-1 .
  • Nikochares - Xenophon. Introduction, translation, commentary (= Fragmenta Comica. Volume 9.3). Verlag Antike, Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 3-938032-94-4 .
  • as editor with Stylianos Chronopoulos : Fragments of a History of Greek Comedy (= Studia Comica. Volume 5). Verlag Antike, Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-938032-64-0 .

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