Friedmar Kühnert

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Friedmar Kühnert (born November 16, 1924 in Drei 30 , † September 18, 2002 in Jena ) was a German classical philologist .

Life and accomplishments

Friedmar Kühnert studied at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena , with which he was to be associated all his life. He received his doctorate there in 1951 with the work The tendency in Quintilians Institutio oratoria , the habilitation took place in 1957 with the work General Education and Specialized Education in Antiquity . In 1958 he became a university lecturer, in 1961 a professor with a teaching assignment and in 1963 a professor with a full teaching assignment, later professor with a chair. From 1961 Kühnert was also director of the Institute for Antiquity. He became a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in 1974. In 1981 he retired. His successor as director of the institute was the archaeologist Ernst Kluwe . Kühnert was married to Barbara Zuchold for the second time .

Kühnert made a particular contribution to the organization and maintenance of the Institute for Classical Studies , since the university reform in 1969, the Institute for Classical Studies at Jena University, and was seen as a largely honest personality. Scientifically, he was primarily concerned with education in the ancient world , as a Latinist especially in the Roman Empire . He worked on major projects in GDR antiquity such as the Lexicon of Antiquity or the Cultural History of Antiquity .

Fonts

  • General and specialist education in antiquity . Academy, Berlin 1961 (writings of the Section for Classical Studies, Volume 30).
  • Editor with Heinz Kreissig : Ancient forms of dependency in the Greek areas without a polis structure and the Roman provinces. Actes du Colloque sur l'Esclavage, Iéna, September 29 - October 2, 1981 . Akademie, Berlin 1985 (writings on the history and culture of antiquity, volume 25).
  • Volker Riedel (ed.): Education and rhetoric in antiquity. Small fonts . Friedrich Schiller University, Institute for Classical Studies, Jena 1994.

literature

  • Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1966. de Gruyter, Berlin 1966, p. 1323.
  • Detlef Lotze : The old history in Jena from 1945 to 1989 , In: Isolde Stark (Hrsg.): Elisabeth Charlotte Welskopf and the old history in the GDR. Contributions to the conference from November 21 to 23, 2002 in Halle / Saale . Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08457-6 , pp. 108-116.

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supporting documents

  1. Detlef Lotze: The old story in Jena from 1945 to 1989 , In: Isolde Stark (ed.): Elisabeth Charlotte Welskopf and the old story in the GDR , Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, pp. 110–113.