Eckart Schäfer

This article deals with the classical philologist Eckart Schäfer. For the clergy see Eckhard Schaefer .

Eckart Schäfer (born December 21, 1939 in Eschwege ; † March 17, 2018 ) was a German classical philologist .

After studying classical philology at the University of Freiburg Shepherd was in 1965 Karl Buchner with a thesis on the relationship between experience and art form in Catullus doctorate , as the 18th booklet in the series Hermes. Individual fonts appeared. In the following years he worked as an assistant at the Freiburg Seminar for Classical Philology, where he was appointed private lecturer after his habilitation in 1974. In 1977 he switched to the school service, from which he left in 1999. Until 2005 he held lectures as an adjunct professor at the Freiburg Seminar for Classical Philology.

Schäfer's research focus was Roman poetry from the pre-Augustan and Augustan times and their reception. He was particularly interested in the work of the poets Catullus and Horace . His most famous writing, Deutscher Horaz (Wiesbaden 1976), emerged from his habilitation thesis.

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , 20th Edition (2005), p. 2967.

Web links

• Literature by and about Eckart Schäfer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page by Eckart Schäfer at the University of Freiburg