Fritz Wagner (philologist)

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Fritz Wagner (born July 14, 1934 in Herzogenrath ; † March 27, 2011 ) was a German Middle Latin and Classical philologist .

Life

After studying classical and Medieval Latin Philology, German , history and philosophy at the Universities of Cologne and Bonn , he was in Cologne with the 1962 dissertation Herder Homer Picture: Its roots and effects doctorate . He achieved his habilitation in 1967 with the work Prologemena for the Editio critica of the "Dialogus miraculorum" by Caesarius von Heisterbach . In 1970 he was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Cologne, at the same time as lecturer for palaeography and codicology at the Librarianship Institute of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . In the same year he also held a substitute professorship at Bonn University and moved to the Free University of Berlin as a full professor . Here he worked until his retirement in 2002 as full professor for Middle Latin Philology and as a lecturer at the HU Berlin . On the occasion of his retirement, the Festschrift Mittelalter und Renaissance in honorem Fritz Wagner (Munich / Leipzig 2004) was dedicated to him, which also contains a list of publications since 1960.

Fritz Wagner has received multiple honors for his services to research and teaching, including the Federal Cross of Merit and the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic . The universities of Sofia , Lecce and Siena awarded him their honorary doctorates . He received the title of honorary professor from the University of Bucharest .

His grave is on the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ FAZ, issue No. 84 of April 9, 2011, page 8
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Middle Latin and classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Herzogenrath
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2011