Hans-Jürgen Horn

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Hans-Jürgen Horn (born February 20, 1936 in Düren ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

Hans-Juergen Horn studied from summer semester 1956 first school music at the Cologne University of Music , but joined the Classics and in 1964 with a thesis Hippias maior : Studies on the authenticity question of dialogue doctorate . Horn then worked as a research assistant for classical philology at the University of Cologne . On May 13, 1970 he achieved his habilitation with the work The Aristotelian Understanding of Metaphor on the theory of metaphor in New Criticism . In 1975 he moved to the University of Mannheim as a full professor , where he was active in teaching and research until his retirement (2001).

Hans-Jürgen Horn's research interests include Greek philosophy and the history of the ancient world.

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , Edition 2007, Volume 1, p. 1516

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