Gerrit Kloss

Gerrit Kloss (born September 19, 1961 in Braunschweig ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

Kloss studied Classical Philology, General and Indo-European Linguistics and Papyrology in Göttingen , Tübingen and Florence from 1982 to 1989 and passed his first state examination in Greek and Latin in Göttingen in 1989 . From 1989 to 1990 he worked on the Collaborative Research Center “Literary Translation” at the University of Göttingen. In 1992 he received his doctorate there; his dissertation was published in 1994 under the title Investigations on the word field “Desire / Desire” in the early Greek epic . Between 1990 and 2000 he worked at the Göttingen Seminar for Classical Philology as a research assistant and (from 1994 on) as a research assistant. In 1999 he completed his habilitation with the study of forms of comical speech with Aristophanes . After he held a position in Cologne from 2000 to 2002 and from 2002 to 2003 represented the chair of the late linguist Hubert Petersmann , he was succeeded in 2003 as full professor of classical philology (Latin and Greek linguistics) at the Ruprecht-Karls- University of Heidelberg appointed.

Gerrit Kloss is co-founder and editor of the Göttingen Forum for Classical Studies .

Research priorities

• Old Latin metrics , especially comedy verses ( Plautus , Terenz ) and Saturnians
• literary papyri , especially Hellenika Oxyrhynchia
• Priapeen ( Catullus , Carmina Priapea )
• Fictionality in ancient times

Publications

• On the problem of the Roman Saturnian. In: Glotta . (1993) 71: 81-107.
• Investigations on the word field "desire / desire" in the early Greek epic. Göttingen 1994 (= Hypomnemata 105).
• Critical and exegetical on the Carmina Priapea. In: Göttingen Forum for Classical Studies. 1 (1998), pp. 9-28 and 81-82.
• Catullus's bridge poem (c. 17). In: Hermes . 128: 58-79 (1998).
• Manifestations of comical speech in Aristophanes. Berlin / New York 2001 (= studies on ancient literature and history 59).
• Possibility and probability in the 9th chapter of the Aristotelian "Poetics". In: Rheinisches Museum. 146: 160-183 (2003).
• Considerations on the authorship and dating of the Carmina Priapea. In: Hermes. 133: 464-487 (2003).
• Myth and Reality: Paradoxical Fantasticism in Ancient Texts. In: Nicola Hömke, Manuel Baumbach (Ed.): Strange Realities: Literary Fantasticism and Ancient Literature. Heidelberg 2006, pp. 143-159.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerrit Kloss in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gerrit Kloss at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg