Gyburg Uhlmann

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Gyburg Uhlmann , née Radke (born September 1975 in Marburg ), is a German classical philologist and scholar of antiquity. In 2006 she was the youngest recipient of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize .

Career

Gyburg Uhlmann's father is a professor of medieval studies , her mother Anna Elissa Radke a Latin teacher and neo-Latin poet. For the researcher interested in ancient languages, philology was in the foreground from an early age. She attended the Elisabeth School and the Philippinum in Marburg . After graduating from high school, she began studying classical philology and archeology in Marburg and Heidelberg . In 1999 she successfully passed her master's degree and shortly afterwards began studying for a doctorate. In January 2001 she received her doctorate and in December of the same year she received a scientific award for her dissertation.

From March 2002 to November 2003 she taught classical philology as a research assistant at the University of Marburg. As early as January 2003, her work “The ancient Plato lesson. The dialogues of the first curriculum “recognized as a habilitation thesis and Gyburg Uhlmann was appointed private lecturer .

From November 2003 to October 2004, Uhlmann conducted research at Harvard University on a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . From October 2004 she was a lecturer in Marburg and also held substitute lectures at other universities. In November 2006 she was offered the W3 professorship for Classical Philology and Greek Literature at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, which she did not follow. Instead, she accepted the professorship for Greek Philology at the Free University of Berlin in 2007 and has been a co-opted member of the Institute for Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin since February 2008.

She has been married to Sebastian Uhlmann since May 2008.

research

In her publications, Gyburg Uhlmann deals with both ancient Greek literary texts (especially Homer , Euripides , early Greek poetry ) and - heavily influenced by her teacher Arbogast Schmitt - with ancient philosophy (especially Plato , Aristotle and Platonism ). Uhlmann tries to build a bridge between the two areas by applying the methods and concepts gained from the interpretation of the ancient philosophers in a critical examination of modern literary theories on literary texts. She also worked for central authors of Latin literature (e.g. Virgil ). The jury of the Leibniz Prize particularly emphasized the interdisciplinary approach and the importance of their work for the history of reception.

Publications

  • Symbolic Aeneid Interpretations: Differences and Similarities in Modern Virgil Research . In: Antike und Abendland 49 (2003), pp. 90–112.
  • The theory of numbers in Platonism. - A systematic textbook (new version of your dissertation). A. Francke-Verlag, Tübingen / Basel 2003, ISBN 978-3772033438 .
  • Tragedy and Metatragic - Euripides' Bacchus and Modern Literary Studies . De Gruyter, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3110180220 .
  • Sappho, Fragment 31 (LP) - Approaches to a New Poetry Theory . Stuttgart 2005 (Treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz 2005.6).
  • The smile of Parmenides - Proclus' interpretations of the Platonic form of dialogue . De Gruyter, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3110190144 .
  • The poetic sovereignty of the Homeric narrator . In: Rheinisches Museum 150 (2007), pp. 8–66.
  • The childhood of myth - the invention of the history of literature in antiquity . CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-56333-1 .
  • Teaching and learning Plato . De Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3110181074 .
  • Rhetoric and Truth - A precarious relationship from Socrates to Trump. JBMetzler, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-476-04750-2

Awards

  • 2001: Science Prize from the Albert Osswald Foundation
  • 2004: William Calder Fellowship
  • 2006: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

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personal data
SURNAME Uhlmann, Gyburg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Radke, Gyburg (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg