Gerhard Baudy

Gerhard J. Baudy (born January 26, 1950 in Zweibrücken ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

From 1969 , Baudy studied Greek , Latin , German and religious studies at the Universities of Saarbrücken and Tübingen . He received his doctorate in 1977 in Tübingen with the dissertation Excommunication and Reintegration: On the Genesis and Cultural Function of Early Greek Attitudes to Death . In 1986 his book Adonis Gardens was published. Studies on ancient seed symbolism (therein: initiation motifs in Plato's “Phaedrus” ). He achieved his habilitation in 1989 in Kiel with the work The Fires of Rome: An Apocalyptic Motif in Ancient Historiography . In 1994 he was appointed to the chair for Greek literature at the University of Konstanz (succeeding Hans-Joachim Newiger ) . At the end of the 2015/16 winter semester, he retired, but continues to hold lectures.

Fonts (selection)

• Excommunication and reintegration. On the genesis and cultural function of early Greek attitudes towards death . Frankfurt am Main / Bern / Cirencester 1980, ISBN 978-3-8204-6782-6 (also dissertation, University of Tübingen).
• Adonis Gardens. Studies on ancient sperm symbolics . Frankfurt am Main 1986 (= contributions to classical philology 176), ISBN 978-3-445-02493-0 .
• The fires of Rome. An apocalyptic motif in ancient historiography . Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 1991 (= Spudasmata 50), ISBN 978-3-487-09480-9 .

literature

• Gerhard Baudy . In: Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . Founded by Joseph Kürschner . 20th edition. KG Saur Verlag, Munich [ua] 2005, ISBN 3-598-23612-3 , p. 144 ( degruyter.com - constantly updated, restricted-access online edition).

Web links

• Literature by Gerhard Baudy in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gerhard Baudy at the University of Konstanz