Christian Tornau
Christian Tornau (born October 2, 1967 in Remscheid ) is a German classical philologist .
Life
After graduating from high school in 1987, Tornau studied Latin and Ancient Greek from 1988 to 1993 for teaching at the University of Göttingen . After the exam he worked from 1994 to 1999 as a research assistant at the University of Jena and received his doctorate in 1997 with Carl Joachim Classen in Göttingen with a commentary on the sixth book The Enneades of Plotinus . From 1999 to 2005 he was a research assistant at Meinolf Vielberg in Jena. In 2004 he completed his habilitation in Jena with the text Between Rhetoric and Philosophy: Augustin's Argumentation Technique in De civitate Dei and its educational history background . In 2007 he received the Bruno Snell Prize of the Mommsen Society for this font . On June 16, 2005 he was appointed junior professor in Jena. In the 2006 summer semester he was in the chair for Latin Studies at the University of Marburg . In the summer semester of 2009 he switched to a W2 professorship for classical philology at the University of Würzburg .
Publications (selection)
- Plotinus, Enneades VI 4-5 [22-23]. A commentary (= contributions to antiquity. Volume 113). Teubner, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1998.
- Plotinus: Selected Writings. Edited, translated and commented by Christian Tornau. Reclam, Stuttgart 2001.
- Between rhetoric and philosophy. Augustin's argumentation technique in De civitate Dei and its educational history background (= studies on ancient literature and history. Volume 82). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2006.
- The Shepherd of Hermas in Latin. Critical Edition of the Oldest Latin Translation 'Vulgata'. Edited by Christian Tornau and Paolo Cecconi (= texts and investigations. Volume 173). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2014.
Web links
- Literature by Christian Tornau in the catalog of the German National Library
- Christian Tornau at the University of Würzburg
- Christian Tornau on Academia.edu
First chair: Bonaventura Andres (1783–1809) | Ferdinand Blümm (1809–1821) | Peter von Richarz (1821–1835; previously since 1817 associate professor) | Ernst von Lasaulx (1837–1844; previously since 1835 associate professor) | Franz Josef Hermann Reuter (1844–1867) | Wilhelm Studemund (1869–1870; previously since 1868 associate professor) | Martin Schanz (1874–1912; previously since 1870 associate professor) | Carl Hosius (1913–1933) | Josef Martin (1933–1952) | Rudolf Güngerich (1953–1968) | Carl Joachim Classen (1969–1973) | Udo W. Scholz (1974-2007) | Thomas Baier (since 2008)
Second chair (until 1899 also for classical archeology, 1900–1919 extraordinary professorship): Ludwig von Urlichs (1855–1889) | Karl Sittl (1889–1899) | Thomas Stangl (1900–1921)
Third chair: Franz Boll (1903–1908) | Otto Stählin (1908–1913) | Engelbert Drerup (1913–1923) | Friedrich Pfister (1924–1951) | Franz Dirlmeier (1951–1959) | Ernst Siegmann (1960–1981) | Thomas A. Szlezák (1983–1990) | Michael Erler (1991–2019) | Jan Stenger (since 2020)
Professorship for Classical Philology: Bernd Manuwald (1981–1983) | Ludwig Braun (1985-2008) | Christian Tornau (since 2009)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tornau, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2nd, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Remscheid |