Hans Bernsdorff

Hans Bernsdorff (full name Hans Dorian Bernsdorff , born April 11, 1965 in Bad Oeynhausen ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

Hans Bernsdorff grew up as the son of the general practitioner practicing there in the Exter district of the Westphalian city of Vlotho. He attended the Friedrichs-Gymnasium Herford and, after high school and military service, studied classical philology and philosophy at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from 1985 , where he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . His dissertation, entitled On the Role of Appearance in the Homeric Image of Man , was supervised by Carl Joachim Classen . From 1990 Bernsdorff worked as an assistant at the Göttingen Seminar for Classical Philology. in 1992/93 he was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge . After completing his habilitation in Göttingen in 1997, he was appointed senior assistant. In the summer semester of 2000 he represented the Göttingen Chair for Greek Studies and in the summer semester 2001 a professorship for Latin Studies at the University of Kiel . On April 1, 2002, Bernsdorff received a Heisenberg grant .

In the 2002/03 winter semester, Bernsdorff accepted an offer from Kiel University as C3 professor for Latin Philology. After just one semester, he left Kiel and moved to the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main as a C4 professorship for Classical Philology (focus on Latin Studies) , where he has been active in teaching and research ever since. In winter 2010/11 he was Keeley Visiting Fellow at Wadham College of Oxford University , in the summer semester 2014 Visiting Fellow at the city's All Souls College .

Bernsdorff's research includes large parts of Greek and Latin literature. He mainly deals with archaic and Hellenistic Greek poetry as well as the Greek literature of the imperial era . Special research interests are the effects of Hellenistic poetry on Roman literature, Greek bucolic , the ancient Roman and Greek poetry. Bernsdorff always includes papyrological evidence in his investigations. His habilitation thesis, which he published in two parts, contained a critical edition with a commentary on the Fragmentum bucolicum Vindobonense , an anonymous bucolic poem from the Papyrus Collection and Papyrus Museum Vienna (P. Vindob. Rainer 29801). Bernsdorff is currently preparing a commentary on the archaic poet Anakreon for Oxford University Press .

literature

• Christiana Albertina . Volume 56/57 (2002/03), pp. 109f.

Fonts (selection)

• On the role of appearance in the Homeric image of man . Göttingen 1992 ( Hypomnemata 97; dissertation)
• The fragmentum bucolicum Vindobonense (P. Vindob. Rainer 29801). Introduction, text and commentary . Göttingen 1999 ( Hypomnemata 123; part of the habilitation thesis)
• Works of art and transformations. Four studies on their representation in Ovid's work . Frankfurt am Main 2000 ( Studies in Classical Philology 117)
• The representation of shepherds in the non-bucolic poetry of Hellenism . Stuttgart 2001 ( Palingenesia 72; part of the habilitation thesis)

Web links

• Literature by Hans Bernsdorff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hans Bernsdorff at the University of Frankfurt am Main