Dorothea Weber

Dorothea Weber (* 1957 in Vienna ) is an Austrian classical philologist .

Life

The study of classical philology and classical archeology at the University of Vienna , where they work , Aviens Phenomena, a Arat processing from the pagan late Antiquity doctorate was from 1975 to 1982, a joined to 1984 teaching degree Latin and Greek at. From 1984 to 1986 she taught Greek at a general secondary school. She then spent several years researching Augustine's works in manuscripts in Austrian libraries and worked on several edition projects in the areas of Latin patristics and theater history. From 1994 to 2012 she edited for the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum , interrupted by visiting professorships for Latin studies at the University of Graz (2003/2004) and the University of Salzburg (2011/2012). In 1998 she received her habilitation with the edition of Augustinus : De Genesi contra Manichaeos at the University of Vienna . Since 2012 she has held the professorship for Latin studies at the University of Salzburg and head of the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (CSEL).

Past and current research focuses on Latin late antiquity (especially the philological analysis and interpretation of texts from Latin late antiquity), edition philology (theory, methodology and practice of stemmatic editing), reception of ancient literature (in particular the Latin drama, the epicurean didactic poem of Lucretius as well as the Confessiones Augustins) and Latin didactic poem (positioning between specialist literature and epic, relationship of form to content).

Fonts (selection)

• Aviens Phaenomena, an Arat arrangement from pagan late antiquity (= dissertations from the University of Vienna . Volume 173). Association of Austrian Scientific Societies, Vienna 1986 (= dissertation University of Vienna 1982), ISBN 3-85369-622-8 .
• with Kurt Smolak , with the assistance of Viktor Böhm : Römische Philosophie . (2 volumes) (= Orbis Latinus . Volume 12). Wallstein Verlag, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-486-13422-1 .
• The handwritten tradition of the works of Saint Augustine (= Austrian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-Historical Class. Meeting reports . Volume 601) (= The handwritten tradition of the works of Saint Augustine ; Volume 6,1 / 6,2 {Austria}) (= Publications of the Commission for the Publication of the Corpus of the Latin Church Fathers ; Volume 11). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1993. ISBN 3-7001-2009-5 .
• (Ed.): Augustinus, De Genesi contra Manichaeos (= Austrian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-Historical Class. Meeting reports . Volume 674). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1998. (= Habilitation thesis University of Vienna 1998), ISBN 978-3-7001-2713-0 .
• (Ed.): Augustinus Conversus. A drama by Jakob Gretser. Introduction, text, translation and commentary (= Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum . Volume 91). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2000. ISBN 3-7001-2878-9 .
• with Hildegund Müller and Clemens Weidmann (eds.) with contributions by Hanns Christof Brennecke , Hermann Reichert and Konrad Vössing : Collatio Augustini cum Pascentio. Introduction, text, translation (= Austrian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-Historical Class. Meeting reports . Volume 779) (= Publications of the Commission for the Editing of the Corpus of the Latin Church Fathers ; Volume 24). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2008. ISBN 978-3-7001-6054-0 .
• with Roland J. Teske (ed.): Prosper, De vocatione omnium gentium (= Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum . Volume 97). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2009. ISBN 978-3-7001-6611-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Dorothea Weber in the catalog of the German National Library
• CV and list of publications at the University of Salzburg