Fritz-Heiner Mutschler

Fritz-Heiner Georg Mutschler (born January 4, 1946 in Heidelberg ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

Mutschler studied classical philology at the University of Heidelberg and the Free University of Berlin from 1965 to 1973 . In 1973 he received his doctorate in Berlin with a thesis on Caesar's commentaries . From 1973 to 1988 he worked as a research assistant, after his habilitation in 1982 as a temporary professor at the University of Heidelberg. From 1988 to 1992 he was visiting professor for Western Classics at the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations in Changchun and in Tianjin . In 1993 Mutschler was appointed to the newly established professorship for Classical Philology / Latin Studies at the Technical University of Dresden . On April 1, 2011, he retired. From September 2011 to 2014 he taught Western Classics as a visiting professor at Peking University .

Mutschler deals with Augustan poetry, ancient historiography from a comparative point of view, with social values and literary communication in ancient Rome and with Roman philosophy. Currently, he is mainly in charge of two temporary research projects: Reich and Welt. Constructions of the own and the foreign in the historical discourse of ancient empires: Rome and ancient China as examples and the Roman mos maiorum : order of values and literary communication .

Works

Monographs

Narrative style and propaganda in Caesar's commentaries. Winter, Heidelberg 1975, DNB 760119201 .
The poetic art of Tibullus. Structure and meaning of books 1 and 2 of the Corpus Tibullianum. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-820-45450-0 .

Editorships

with Maximilian Braun, Andreas Halthoff: Moribus antiquis res stat Romana. Roman values and literature in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC Chr. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-598-77683-7 .
with Andreas Halthoff, Andreas Heil : O tempora, o mores! Roman values and literature in the last decades of the republic. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-598-77720-5 .
with Andreas Halthoff, Andreas Heil: Roman values as an object of ancient studies. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-598-77839-2 .
with Andreas Halthoff, Andreas Heil: Roman values and Roman literature in the early principality. Berlin / New York 2011, ISBN 3-110-21298-6 .
The Homeric Epics and the Chinese Book of Songs: Foundational Texts Compared. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge 2018, ISBN 9781527504004 .

Web links

Literature by and about Fritz-Heiner Mutschler in the catalog of the German National Library
Personal homepage and complete list of publications on the TU Dresden website

literature

Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 668.

Individual evidence

↑ Beate Diederichs: Latin literature has to be read in the original. In: Dresdner UniversitätsJournal , No. 11/2011, June 21, 2011, p. 4 ( PDF; 2.6 MB ).

personal data
SURNAME	Mutschler, Fritz-Heiner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mutschler, Fritz-Heiner Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 4, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heidelberg

[1] Beate Diederichs: Latin literature has to be read in the original. In: Dresdner UniversitätsJournal , No. 11/2011, June 21, 2011, p. 4 ( PDF; 2.6 MB ).