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Hadwig Hörner , also Hadwiga Hoerner (* June 29, 1927 - June 25, 2019 ) was a German classical philologist who taught at the University of Frankfurt am Main . The main focus of her work was the edition of the works of the Christian church teacher Gregor von Nyssa .

Life

Hadwig Hörner was born in 1927. No information is currently available about their childhood, youth or education.

There is evidence that Hörner lived in Frankfurt am Main in 1959 . From 1964 she worked there at the Institute for Classical Philology at the University of Frankfurt as an adjunct professor for Classical Philology. In 1992 she retired.

Hadwig Hörner was a specialist in Greek philosophy and Christian theology . Her main research area was the writings of Gregor von Nyssa , whose complete edition Gregorii Nysseni opera she was in charge of as the successor to Werner Jaeger and Hermann Langerbeck . She was the main editor of Volumes 9 (1967), 15 (1972) and 2.2 (1987). In preparation is De hominis opificio (November 2015).

literature

• Herbert Eisenberger (Ed.): Hermeneumata. Festschrift for Hadwig Hörner for his sixtieth birthday. Winter, Heidelberg 1990, ISBN 3-533-04154-9 ; ISBN 3-533-04155-7 .

See also

• List of classical philologists at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Homepage of the University of Frankfurt, Institute for Classical Philology, emeritus professors , accessed on November 6, 2015
2. ↑ Family ads . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 12, 2019, p. 36 .
3. ↑ Homepage of the University of Frankfurt, Institute for Classical Philology, current reports , accessed on September 24, 2019
4. ↑ Thanks to “Fräulein Hadwig Hörner in Frankfurt aM” in the foreword to: Werner Jaeger: Scripta minora. Volume 2, pp. Vii , Ed. di Storia e Letteratura, 1960. Retrieved from google.books on November 6, 2015