Dennis Package

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Dennis Pausch (born April 7, 1976 in Wetzlar ) is a German classical philologist .

After studying classical philology and history at the University of Giessen , he passed the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools in May 2000 ( Latin and history) and November 2001 (Greek). From 2000 to 2005 he was a research assistant in the Giessen Collaborative Research Center on Cultures of Remembrance and at the Chair of Latin Philology ( Helmut Krasser ). In December 2003 he started working on Biography and Educational Culture. Form and function of personal representations with Pliny the Younger, Gellius and Suetonius , who was awarded the 2004 dissertation prize of the Justus Liebig University in Giessen.

From 2006 to 2012 he was a temporary academic advisor at the Institute for Classical Studies at the University of Giessen, interrupted by a research stay in Edinburgh as a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and a teaching professorship for Classical Philology (Latin) at the University of Regensburg (2011/12). His habilitation thesis in Classical Philology ( Livy and the Reader. Narrative Structures in ab urbe condita ) was awarded the Bruno Snell Prize . In 2012 he took over the teaching professorship for Classical Philology (Latin) at the University of Regensburg. Since February 2014 he has been Redacteur en litterature latine for Latomus . Revue d'études latines and membre adhérent of the Société d'Études Latines de Bruxelles .

In October 2014, Dennis Pausch took over the chair for Classical Philology (Latin) at the Technical University of Dresden .

Since July 2017 he has been a sub-project manager in the Dresden Collaborative Research Center 1285: “Invectivity. Constellations and dynamics of degradation ”.

Since 2018 there has been a cooperation with the Scottish Graecist Douglas Cairns , a 2018 Anneliese Maier Research Award winner.

Previous and current research focuses on biographical and autobiographical literature, ancient historiography, the interpretation of history and culture of remembrance, literature in the context of the educational culture of the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, literature from the Augustan period, invectivity and interdisciplinarity in ancient studies and beyond .

Fonts (selection)

  • Biography and educational culture. Representations of people in Pliny the Younger, Gellius and Suetonius (= Millennium Studies. Studies on Culture and History of the First Millennium AD. Volume 4). de Gruyter, Berlin 2004 (= dissertation University of Gießen 2003), ISBN 3-11-018247-5 .
  • With Helmut Krasser and Ivana Petrovic (eds.): Triplici invectus triumpho. The Roman triumph in Augustan times. Publication of an interdisciplinary conference in Erfurt (March 17-18, 2005) (= Potsdam Classical Studies . Volume 25). Steiner, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 3-515-09249-8 .
  • (Ed.): Voices of History. Functions of speeches in ancient historiography. Publication of an international conference in Rauischholzhausen (September 25-27, 2008) (= contributions to antiquity . Volume 284). De Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-022417-7 .
  • Livy and the Reader. Narrative structures in ab urbe condita (= Zetemata . Volume 140). Beck, Munich 2011. (= Habilitation thesis Universität Gießen 2010), ISBN 3-406-62188-0 .
  • With Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser and Meike Rühl (eds.): Kultur der Antike. Transdisciplinary work in classical studies . Verlag Antike, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-938032-41-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Page of subproject B: “Invective Staging. Verbal degradation in Roman society in the 1st century BC Between literary tradition and fictitious orality ”of the SFB 1285. Retrieved on April 10, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Cooperation with Prof. Dr. Douglas Cairns (Edinburgh). Retrieved April 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Package, Dennis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzlar