Fritz Fajen

Fritz Fajen (born November 7, 1934 in Rotenburg in Hanover ) is a German classical philologist . He is the authoritative editor of the Halieutika of the Greek teacher Oppian .

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From 1957 Fajen studied Classical Philology and Indo-European Studies at the Universities of Göttingen and Zurich . In Göttingen he received his doctorate in 1965 under Ernst Heitsch and Günter Neumann ; He then attended the Scuola vaticana di paleografia e diplomatica in Rome and graduated as a Palaeographus vaticanus. Since 1967 at the University of Regensburg (Heitsch chair), first as an assistant, later as academic director, he taught Greek and Latin (and Italian) until 1999.

Publications

Articles, monographs, editions, etc.

• Studies in the history of tradition on the Halieutika of Oppian , Contributions to Classical Philology 32, Meisenheim 1969.
• Tempus in Greek. Comments on a book by Harald Weinrich , Glotta 49, 1971, 34–41.
• The “Irrealis” in Greek. Comments on a book by Harald Weinrich , Gymnasium 78, 1971, 442–446.
• Thoughts on so-called Latin classes for students from all faculties at the university , Gymnasium 81, 1974, 90–92.
• On the history of transmission of the Halieutika des Oppian , Hermes 107, 1979, 286-310.
• Handwritten tradition and so-called Euteknios paraphrase of the Halieutika of Oppian , AAWM 1979, no.4.
• Tense and mode in the temporal clauses of the Halieutika des Oppian , Glotta 59, 1981, 208-228 (Corrigenda Glotta 60, 1982, 136).
• Notes for the handwritten transmission of the Oppian Halieutika , AAWM 1995, No. 2.
• Oppianus, Halieutika / Oppian, Der Fischfang , ed.Fritz Fajen, Stuttgart-Leipzig 1999.
• Oppianus Ciliciensis 1930-1999 , Lustrum 41, 1999, 75-104.

Concordances, collections of texts, grammars

• Concordantia Oppianea / Concordance to the Halieutika of Oppian from Cilicia (ed. Fritz Fajen), compiled by Fritz Fajen and Manfred Wacht, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2002.
• Concordantia Colluthi / Concordance on the “Rape of Helena” by Kolluthos (ed. Otto Schönberger), compiled by Fritz Fajen and Manfred Wacht, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2003.
• Concordantia Triphiodori / Concordance on the “Capture of Troy” by Triphiodorus (ed. Uwe Dubielzig), compiled by Fritz Fajen and Manfred Wacht, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2003.
• Concordantia Orphei Argonauticorum / Concordance to the Orphic Argonautics (ed. Francis Vian), compiled by Fritz Fajen and Manfred Wacht, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2004.
• Concordantia Orphei Lithicorum / Concordance to the Orphic Lithika ( ed.Georgios N. Giannakis), compiled by Fritz Fajen and Manfred Wacht, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2005.
• Concordantia Nonni Dionysiacorum / Concordance to the Dionysiacs of Nonnos (ed. Rudolf Keydell), compiled by Fritz Fajen and Manfred Wacht, 5 vols., Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2008.
• Sapientia Romanorum, Wisdoms from Ancient Rome , Stuttgart 2008.
• Latin grammar. A revision course with special consideration of the verb , Stuttgart 2010, 2017 (revised edition).

Reviews

• Antonio Capizzi, La porta di Parmenide. Due saggi per una nuova lettura del poema , Filologia e Critica 14, Rome 1975 in Gymnasium 84, 1977, 39-41.
• Ἀνωνύμου παράφρασις εἰς τὰ Ὀππιανοῦ Ἁλιευτικά. Ἐκδίδει Μανόλης Παπαθωμόπουλος . Ἰωάννινα 1976 (Πανεπιστήμιον Ἰωαννίνων. Φιλοσοφικἡ Σχολή. Σειρὰ 'Πέλεια'. 4.) in Gnomon 50, 1978, 776-778.