Hans Jürgen Hillen

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Hans Jürgen Hillen (born August 10, 1927 in Mönchengladbach ) is a classical philologist and has emerged as a translator , editor and textbook author .

Life

Hans Jürgen Hillen attended the Catholic elementary school on Regentenstrasse at his place of birth from 1933 to 1937 and the monastery from 1937 to 1946. Humanistic grammar school, whose teachers also educated humanitas during the Nazi era . From February 1943 he was called up as an air force helper for military service.

After the end of the war he studied Classical Philology , German and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Cologne from 1946 to 1952 ; Even before the state examination in February 1952, he received his doctorate at the end of 1951 with a thesis on the poetic treatment of time in the Nibelungenlied .

After brief positions in Mönchengladbach, Krefeld , Langenberg and Essen , he worked as a grammar school teacher at the Theodor Schwann grammar school in Neuss from 1958 until his retirement in 1992 , and since 1975 as the principal's representative.

Hillen should be known to a wider public - after the initiator Josef Feix, who was responsible for the first two volumes published - as the editor and translator of the bilingual Livius edition in the Tusculum Collection (a total of 11 volumes between 1974 and 2000 with around 6750 pages) have become.

In the school context, his revision or new version of Max Krüger's Latin teaching work - the "VW among Latin books" - has been able to assert itself for almost four decades. This is not the case with the textbook-independent Latin grammar from 1971 - its innovative approach, in particular to overcome the sharp separation of form and sentence theory, has not really caught on.

Hans Jürgen Hillen lives with his wife in Neuss and continues to be primarily concerned with ancient history.

Publications

As an author

  • Latin grammar . Frankfurt am Main: Diesterweg 1971, ISBN 3-425-06834-2
  • From Aeneas to Romulus. The legends of the founding of Rome . With a Latin-German edition of the Origo gentis Romanae [= pp. 197–290]. Düsseldorf / Zurich: Artemis & Winkler 2003, ISBN 3-538-07156-X

As translator

  • Titus Livius: The Fall of the Macedonian Empire (Roman History, Book 39-45). Introduced, translated and explained by Hans Jürgen Hillen. With an afterword by Olof Gigon. (Library of the Old World) Zurich / Munich: Artemis 1972

As editor

  • Titus Livius: Roman History . Edited in Latin and German by Hans Jürgen Hillen. ( Tusculum collection or Tusculum library ; mostly with additional editions)
    • Book I-III. Munich / Zurich: Artemis 1987
    • Book IV-VI. Munich / Zurich: Artemis & Winkler 1991
    • Book VII-X. Fragments of the Second Decade. Zurich: Artemis & Winkler 1994
    • Book XXVII-XXX. Düsseldorf / Zurich: Artemis & Winkler 1997
    • Book XXXI-XXXIV. Munich: Heimeran 1978
    • Book XXXV-XXXVIII. Munich / Zurich: Artemis 1982
    • Book XXXIX-XLI. Munich / Zurich: Artemis 1983
    • Book XLII-XLIV. Munich / Zurich: Artemis 1988
    • Book XLV. Antique table of contents and fragments of the books XLVI-CXLII. Düsseldorf / Zurich: Artemis & Winkler 2000
  • The history of Rome. Roman and Greek historians report . Text selection by Hans Jürgen Hillen, with introductory texts by Gerhard Fink . Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf, Zurich, 2006, ISBN 978-3-538-07235-0

Remarks

  1. ↑ For his part, Hillen paid tribute to his colleagues Otto Veh (for Cassius Dio, Roman History) as well as Konrat Ziegler and Walter Wuhrmann (for Plutarch, Great Greeks and Romans) for new editions in the context of the Library of the Old World .
  2. ↑ Heribert Meurer and Gerd Schäfer contributed to the revision (1961/62 and later) and new version (1984/86 and later) of the 'Krüger'.
personal data
SURNAME Hillen, Hans Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION classical philologist, translator, editor and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchengladbach