Gabriela Kompatscher-Gufler

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Gabriela Kompatscher-Gufler (born March 13, 1968 in Bressanone ) is an Italian classical philologist and professor of Greek and Latin studies at the University of Innsbruck .

Life

From 1987 to 1992 she studied Latin, history and archeology at the University of Innsbruck . From 1992 to 1994 she completed a doctoral degree in Latin at the University of Innsbruck and an academic training in 1994 in the department for special collections of the University Library Innsbruck . She worked at Wilten Abbey from 1994 to 1995 and at the Innsbruck University Library as part of a research project of the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research and the Austrian Academy of Sciences from 1995 to 1996 as a manuscript processor. Since November 1, 1996, she has been a university assistant at the Institute for Classical Philology at the University of Innsbruck. In 2003 she completed her habilitation in Innsbruck with a thesis on the Liber miraculorum by Herbert von Clairvaux and was appointed associate professor. In the autumn semester of 2008, she taught as a visiting professor at the Middle Latin Seminar at the University of Zurich . Since January 1, 2012 she has been working at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute in Innsbruck. On March 1, 2017, she was appointed head of the Institute for Languages ​​and Literatures at the University of Innsbruck.

Her work and research focuses on Middle Latin literature and language (especially late medieval entertainment literature), codicology (especially the development and analysis of Tyrolean manuscripts), relationships between humans and animals in antiquity and the Middle Ages and human-animal studies .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Gesta Romanorum manuscripts of the Innsbruck University Library Cod. 667, 509 and 433, their relationships to each other and to the other Gesta Romanorum manuscripts of the Innsbruck University Library (= Commentationes Aenipontanae. Volume 31 / Tirolensia Latina. Volume 1). Wagner, Innsbruck 1997, ISBN 3-7030-0246-8 (also dissertation, Innsbruck 1994).
  • Catalog of the manuscripts of the Innsbruck University Library. Part 3. Cod. 201 - 300. Register volume (= memoranda of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, philosophical-historical class. Volume 271). (= Publications of the Commission for Writing and Books of the Middle Ages. Series II, Volume 4.3). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2779-0 .
  • Herbert von Clairvaux and his Liber miraculorum. The short version of an anonymous Bavarian editor. Investigation, edition and commentary (= Latin language and literature of the Middle Ages. Volume 43). Lang, Bern et al. 2005, ISBN 3-03910-480-2 (also habilitation thesis, Innsbruck 2003).
  • as editor with Albrecht Classen and Peter Dinzelbacher : Animals as friends in the Middle Ages. An anthology . Scientific publishing house Bachmann, Badenweiler 2010, ISBN 978-3-940523-08-2 .
  • with Reinhard Pichler : Textbook and exercise book on Latin and Greek metrics (= Latin Forum. Volume 73/74). Association for the Promotion of Classroom Discussion, Innsbruck 2011, ISBN 978-3-9503242-0-4 .
  • with Daniela Mairhofer and Claudia Schretter : Catalog of the medieval manuscripts in the library of the Premonstratensian Canons' Monastery in Wilten (= memoranda of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, philosophical-historical class. Volume 425). (= Publications of the Commission for Writing and Books of the Middle Ages, Series II. Volume 10). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7001-7069-3 .
  • with Franz Römer and Sonja Schreiner : partners, friends and companions. Human-animal relationships in ancient, medieval and modern times in Latin texts . Holzhausen, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-902976-26-0 .
  • as editor with Reingard Spannring , Karin Schachinger and Alejandro Boucabeille : Disciplined animals? Perspectives of human-animal studies for the scientific disciplines (= human-animal studies ). Transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 3-8376-2518-4 .
  • as editor with Reinhard Heuberger , Reingard Spannring, Karin Schachinger, Andreas Oberprantacher and Alejandro Boucabeille: Animals, Texts, Transformations. Critical perspectives of human-animal studies (= human-animal studies . Volume 7). Transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 3-8376-2873-6 .
  • with Reingard Spannring and Karin Schachinger: Human-Animal Studies. An introduction (= UTB . Volume 4759). Waxmann, Münster / New York 2017, ISBN 3-8252-4759-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV on the homepage of the University of Innsbruck
personal data
SURNAME Kompatscher-Gufler, Gabriela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Brixen