Hans-Peter Stahl

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Hans-Peter Stahl (born March 28, 1932 in Lübeck ) is an American classical philologist of German origin.

Life

Hans-Peter Stahl studied Classical Philology at the University of Kiel , where he received his PhD on December 15, 1956. phil. obtained his doctorate and in 1957 the first state examination in Latin and Greek. He then taught as a research assistant at the University of Münster . In 1961/1962 he was a Junior Fellow at the newly established Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University . In 1964 he completed his habilitation in Münster and was appointed university lecturer, in 1969 he was made an adjunct professor. In 1970 he went to Yale University as an Associate Professor of Greek and Latin . He later moved to the University of Pittsburgh as Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classics . In 1974/1975 he received the Guggenheim grant , which enabled him to stay at the Institute for Advanced Study . In 1980/1981 he was a visiting member there for the second time, this time with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). In 1988 he was visiting professor at Ohio State University .

Stahl's main research interests are Greek and Roman historiography as well as Augustan poetry. His habilitation thesis on the position of humans in the historical process of Thucydides attracted particular attention . In it, Stahl dealt with the question of how Thucydides's historical work on the Peloponnesian War should be evaluated in its composition and overall statement. Contrary to the prevailing opinion at the time, which Eduard Schwartz had justified, Stahl did not see any layers of composition in the historical work that showed the author's development towards a defender of the politics of Pericles against the background of the course of the war. Rather, he evaluated Thucydides as an interpreter of human destiny, especially the discrepancy between intention and effect. With this thesis, Stahl placed the general human aspects of the Thucydideic history in the foreground. Hartmut Erbse , for example, raised an objection , who emphasized that Thucydides considers politics to be difficult to implement, but not impossible. Stahl's study found numerous imitators, particularly in the United States. The revised English edition of the Thucydides book (2003) was recognized as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice magazine in 2004.

Fonts

  • Interpretations of Plato's hypothesis method: Menon, Phaedo, State . Kiel 1956 (dissertation)
    • abridged English edition, 1971
  • Thucydides: The position of man in the historical process . Munich 1966 ( Zetemata 40; habilitation thesis)
    • extended English edition: Thucydides: man's place in history . Swansea 2003
  • Properties: 'Love' and 'War'. Individual and State under Augustus . Berkeley / Los Angeles / London 1985
  • Virgil's Aeneid: Augustan Epic and Political Context . London 1998. ISBN 0-7156-2808-9

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SURNAME Stahl, Hans-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American classical philologist of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck