Friedhelm Mann

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Friedhelm Mann (born May 1, 1942 in Schweidnitz ) is a German classical philologist , especially a Graecist .

Life

Mann attended high school in Meppen from 1953 to 1962 . After studying Classical Philology in Münster, he received his doctorate from the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster in 1975 with a dissertation on the Christmas sermon of Gregory von Nyssa (tradition and text edition) supervised by Heinrich Dörrie . He then worked as a research assistant at the Gregor von Nyssa research center at the Westphalian Wilhelms University , headed by the theologian Wolf-Dieter Hauschild after the death of the philologist Dörrie and then by Holger Strutwolf .

In addition to historical lore work supervised man the critical edition of the complete works of the Cappadocian Church Father and carried himself to the edition of the sermons (sermons) on. Apart from a comprehensive bibliography that he created with Margarete Altenburger, he published numerous small papers of his own. However, the Lexicon Gregorianum is to be regarded as his life's work, which claims to be a dictionary of the writings of Gregory of Nyssa, but which is recommended as an authoritative dictionary of late ancient Greek due to its lexicographical detail . Even after his retirement, Mann continued to work as a freelancer at the research center.

Fonts (selection)

  • Gregory of Nyssa's Christmas sermon. Tradition and text. Dissertation Münster 1975.
  • with Horst-Dieter Blume (ed.): Platonism and Christianity. Festschrift for Heinrich Dörrie . Münster 1983. 2nd edition 1985
  • with Margarete Altenburger: Bibliography on Gregor von Nyssa , Leiden 1988.
  • Gregorii Nysseni Opera. Ed. Werner Jaeger et al. Weidmann, Berlin 1921–1925; Brill, Leiden 1952ff., Therein Vol. 10.2: Sermones. Edd. Friedhelm Mann, Ernst Rhein, Günter Heil. Leiden 1996.
  • Lexicon Gregorianum . Edited by Friedhelm Mann. Published by the Gregor von Nyssa Research Center at the Westphalian Wilhelms University under the direction of Wolf-Dieter Hauschild (nine volumes and one volume of nomina propria ). Leiden, Boston, Cologne: Brill 1999–2013.

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SURNAME Man, Friedhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist, especially a Graecist
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweidnitz