Florian Hurka

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Florian Hurka (born May 17, 1973 in Stuttgart ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1992 and doing civilian service in 1992/1993, he studied Latin, Greek, history and Protestant theology in Osnabrück , Bristol and Freiburg im Breisgau from 1993 to 2001 . In 2001 and 2003 he passed the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools in his subjects. The Baden-Württemberg state graduate support funded him in 2001 and 2002 with a doctoral scholarship. He received his doctorate in 2002 on text-critical problems with Valerius Flaccus in Freiburg im Breisgau . From 2002 to 2003 he was a research assistant at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , and from 2003 to 2004 at the University of Mainz . In 2003, his dissertation was awarded the Günter Wöhrle Prize of the Baden-Württemberg State Foundation. The Kalkhof Rose Foundation of the Mainz Academy of Sciences sponsored him in 2005 with a habilitation grant. From 2005 to 2006 he represented the Latin professorship at the University of Hamburg . He stayed at the University of Texas at Austin for three months in 2006 on a research grant from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation .

After completing his school internship in Hamburg from 2006 to 2007, he passed the second state examination and then worked in Hamburg for specialist didactic teacher training (Latin). From 2007 to 2008 he was a teacher in Hamburg. In 2007 he completed his habilitation in Classical Philology in Mainz with a thesis on the Asinaria des Plautus . Since 2007 he has been a research assistant at the University of Kiel . In 2008 he represented the Latin professorship at the University of Wuppertal , where he received 3rd place on the list for the W3 professorship in Classical Philology / Latin. In 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 he was a lecturer in the didactic teacher training in Schleswig-Holstein (Latin).

His main research interests are republican drama, neo-Latin literature, reception history, and textual criticism / tradition.

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