Detlev Fehling

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Detlev Fehling (born June 10, 1929 in Berlin ; † March 15, 2008 in Heikendorf ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Fehling had lived in Kiel since 1946, where he also studied. He received his doctorate in 1955 from the University of Kiel under Hans Diller with a thesis on Marcus Terentius Varro . The habilitation , also in Kiel took place on July 1, 1964. Subsequently, he was first lecturer , from 1970 to 1994 then professor of classical philology at the University of Kiel.

Fehling published on both Latin and Greek literature of antiquity. Fehling became known, but at the same time very controversial, in classical studies primarily through his thesis put forward in 1971 that the sources cited by the ancient historian Herodotus are entirely based on his own invention and that Herodotus did not travel to the countries he described.

Fonts

  • Varro and the grammatical doctrine of analogy and inflection . Dissertation Kiel 1955.
  • The repetitive figures and their use by the Greeks before Gorgias . de Gruyter, Berlin 1969.
  • The sources in Herodotus. Studies in the narrative art of Herodotus . de Gruyter, Berlin 1971, ISBN 3-11-003634-7 (English translation: Herodotus and his 'Sources' . 1989).
  • Ethological considerations in the field of antiquity: phallic demonstration, distant vision, stoning . Beck, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-406-05151-0 .
  • Cupid and Psyche. The creation of Apuleius and its influence on the fairy tale. A criticism of the romantic fairy tale theory . Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-515-02710-6 .
  • The seven wise men and the early Greek chronology. A study of the history of tradition . Lang, Bern 1985, ISBN 3-261-04061-0 .
  • The original story of the fall of Troy, or: interpretations of the Troy story . Institute for Linguistics, Innsbruck 1991, ISBN 3-85124-151-7 .
  • Matter and World Structure in the Time of the Early Pre-Socratics: Reality and Tradition . Institute for Linguistics, Innsbruck 1994, ISBN 3-85124-170-3 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 22nd edition (2009), Vol. 4, p. 4797.
  2. ↑ personnel news in June 2008 , press release 63/2008 of 11 July 2008 Website of the University of Kiel, accessed on 17 December 2012 found.
  3. ↑ See, for example, W. Kendrick Pritchett : The Liar School of Herodotos . Gieben, Amsterdam 1993 ( review ); Jonah Lendering: Herodotus' Sources .
personal data
SURNAME Fehling, Detlev
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fehling, Jürgen Detlev (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 2008
Place of death Heikendorf