Farouk Grewing

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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

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