Eberhard Heck

Eberhard Heck (born November 7, 1937 in Tokyo ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

Eberhard Heck was born in Tokio-Omori as the son of industrial clerk Carl Heck. He attended the German School in Tokyo-Yokohama from January 1944 to September 1945 and received private tuition after the end of World War II until he was repatriated. From 1947 to 1950 he attended the Realgymnasium in Biedenkopf , then until 1954 the Oberrealschule in Amberg . In the winter semester of 1954/1955 he began studying classical philology and history at the University of Erlangen . In the summer semester of 1956 he moved to Tübingen , where Ernst Zinn , Hildebrecht Hommel and Wolfgang Schadewaldt took himshaped. After graduating, he was employed as a research assistant at the Tübingen Philological Seminar in the fall of 1961. In 1963 he was with the dissertation The testimony of Cicero magazine De re publica doctorate .

Since 1963, Heck worked as a research assistant at the University of Tübingen, interrupted by working at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae from 1965 to 1967 and several research semesters from 1983 to 2001. After his habilitation (1971), Heck received the title of adjunct professor in 1971 and became professor in 1976 appointed senior assistant and 1980 full-time professor. In 2003 he retired.

Heck's research interests include pagan and Christian Latin and Greek literature. He is particularly concerned with cicero and lactance . In 1988 he founded a department for patristic text editions at the University of Tübingen, where, in conjunction with other researchers, he prepared an edition of the Divinarum institutionum libri septem des Lactanz. Heck has been a member of the Mommsen Society since 1972 and a member of the CDU since 1979 , for which he works in various functions at the municipal level.

Web links

• Literature by and about Eberhard Heck in the catalog of the German National Library
• Curriculum vitae of Eberhard Heck at the Philological Department of the University of Tübingen