Christina Meckelnborg

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Christina Meckelnborg (born Lucke , born June 17, 1956 in Berlin ) is a German classical philologist ( Latinist ).

Life

From 1979 to 1983 she was a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin , where she received her doctorate in 1982 with the dissertation P. Ovidius Naso Remedia amoris: Commentary on verse 397-814 under Franco Munari . 1983 to 1985 research assistant at the University of Münster. From 1985 to 1987 she completed her traineeship at the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage and was then a research assistant in the manuscript department of the Berlin State Library until 1988. From 1988 to 1991 she was a research assistant (DFG) in the main state archive in Koblenz.

After her habilitation in 1991, she was appointed professor of Classical Philology and Medieval Latin at the University of Osnabrück , initially at its location in Vechta . She retired in 2016.

Meckelnborg is known as the author of outstanding papyrological, codicological and exegetical writings. In addition, she created a new edition of Carl Meißner's Latin Phraseology , which was first published by the Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft in 2004 and had five new editions by 2015. In 2015, Meckelnborg presented a new edition of the oldest Brandenburg chronicle, the Tractatus de urbe Brandenburg . Enno Bünz writes: "New editions of narrative sources often lead to texts that have been improved in places, but rarely have such fundamental consequences as in this case."

literature

  • Vademecum of History , Volume 2004/2005, p. 478.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Enno Bünz: Review by Christina Meckelnborg: Tractatus de urbe Brandenburg. 2015. In: "New archive for Saxon history." Vol. 87, 2016, pp. 306-307, here p. 307.
personal data
SURNAME Meckelnborg, Christina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lucke, Christina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin