Fidel Rädle

Fidel Rädle (born September 4, 1935 in Hermannsdorf, today in Burladingen ) is a German Middle Latin philologist . He is professor emeritus for Latin Philology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times at the University of Göttingen .

Life

After graduating from high school in Sigmaringen in 1956, Rädle studied German and Classical Philology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In 1957 he moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he also studied Middle Latin philology with Bernhard Bischoff . After graduating from 1964 to 1965, he was Franz Brunhölzl's research assistant at the newly founded Middle Latin seminar at the University of Erlangen . In 1965 he followed Brunhölzl to Marburg to found the Middle Latin seminar. In 1967 he received his doctorate with the dissertation Studies on emerald by Saint-Mihiel .

From 1972 to 1976 Rädle was a lecturer and senior academic councilor in Marburg. In 1976 he completed his habilitation with his studies on the Latin religious drama of the 16th and 17th centuries. In 1981 he was appointed to a C3 professorship for Latin Philology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times at the University of Göttingen, and in 1991 he was promoted to C4 professor. Since 1993 Rädle has been a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . In 2000 he was retired. His successor was his student Thomas Haye in 2002 .

Rädle deals with Middle and Neo-Latin literature, especially the Carolingian period , the late Middle Ages and the early modern period . One focus is the Latin drama of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation . Rädle also emerged as a neo-Latin poet and has published a collection of poems. In his poems he does not adhere to the ancient metrics, but rather follows the accenthythmic principle of Middle Latin poetry.

He is part of the commission for the publication of the Middle Latin dictionary at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

• Stress in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht [u. a.], Göttingen 2000.
• The Order of Time by the Creator in Patristics and in the early Latin hymns. In: rhythm and seasonality. Congress files of the 5th Symposium of the Medievalist Association in Göttingen 1993. Ed. By Peter Dilg , Gundolf Keil and Dietz-Rüdiger Moser, Sigmaringen 1995, pp. 51–61.
• De condicione bestiali vel humana. Carmina Latina. Of animals and people. Latin poems with German translations. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1993, ISBN 3-7995-4236-1 .
• Studies on emerald by Saint-Mihiel (= Medium aevum. Volume 29). Fink, Munich 1974 (at the same time: University of Munich, Philosophical Faculty, dissertation, 1967).

Web links

• Literature by and about Fidel Rädle in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Fidel Rädle in the OPAC of the Regesta imperii
• Members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen: Fidel Rädle. Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, accessed on August 16, 2016 .