Farouk Grewing
Farouk F. Grewing (born August 22, 1968 in Lübeck ) is a German classical philologist .
Life
After studying classical philology and German in Göttingen and from 1992 to 1993 in Oxford as a research fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service , he received his doctorate in 1996 in Göttingen . In 1997 he received the Bruno Snell Prize for his dissertation . He then became a research assistant at the Institute for Classical Studies at the University of Cologne .
A Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enabled him to stay as a visiting lecturer at the Department of the Classics at Harvard University and as a visiting assistant professor at Boston University . In 2004 he became Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan . After his return in 2005 he became a teacher at a private grammar school in Bonn and from August 2007 to the 2014 summer semester was Professor of Classical Philology (Latin Studies) at the Institute for Classical Philology, Middle and New Latin at the University of Vienna . He has been working at the University of Leipzig since 2016 , where he is preparing an edition of Carmina Priapea including interpretive commentary.
His main research interests are Roman poetry of the imperial era, Greek and Roman epigrammatics, poetics, ancient linguistics and literary theory in classical philology.
Fonts
- As an author
- Martial, Book VI: A Commentary (= Hypomnemata. H. 115). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1997, ISBN 3-525-25212-9 (dissertation, University of Göttingen, 1996).
- Latin grammar and style in the Renaissance: On Adriano Castellesi, De sermone Latino et modis Latine loquendi (= Bochum Classical Studies Colloquium. Vol. 45). Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Trier 1999, ISBN 3-88476-373-3 .
- As editor
- Toto notus in orbe: Perspectives of the Martial Interpretation (= Palingenesia. Vol. 65). Steiner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-07381-7 (volume of articles; review by Hans Peter Obermayer, Munich 2000 ).
- with Benjamin Acosta-Hughes , Alexander Kirichenko: The Door Ajar. False Closure in Greek and Roman Literature and Art (= Library of Classical Classical Studies . 2nd Series, New Series, Vol. 132). Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-5697-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Farouk Grewing in the catalog of the German National Library
- Presentation in the online newspaper of the University of Vienna ( Memento from April 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Grewing, Farouk |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grewing, Farouk F. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 22nd August 1968 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |