Helmut Gugel

Helmut Gugel (born May 12, 1942 in Graz ; † November 5, 1972 ibid) was an Austrian classical philologist .

Life

Helmut Gugel studied from 1960 classical philology and German at the University of Graz , where he was particularly influenced by Karl Vretska . He turned his interest to Roman rhetoric, which Gugel had already dealt with in his dissertation (1964). His doctoral thesis, Investigations on the Style and Structure of the Tacitus Speaker's Dialogue , appeared in 1969 as the 20th volume in the Commentationes Aenipontanae series . In the same year Gugel published an annotated, bilingual edition of the Dialogus de oratoribus in the Reclam publishing house.

In addition to Tacitus, Gugel also dealt with the historian Suetonius , on whose writing technique he wrote his habilitation thesis (completed in 1971). In 1971 he was appointed university lecturer. He died on November 5, 1972 at the age of 30. His habilitation thesis was published in 1977 from the estate of Helmuth Vretska . Another unfinished project, the Index verborum to the Oratorum Romanorum Fragmenta , was published in 1979 by his teacher Karl Vretska.

From 1970 Gugel Life was a member of the American Philological Association .

literature

• Enrica Malcovati : † Helmut Gugel . In: Athenaeum , Volume 51 (1973), pp. 484-485
• Karl Vretska: Univ.-Doz. Dr. Helmut Gugel † . In: Anzeiger für die Altertumswwissenschaft , Volume 25 (1972), pp. 127f. ISSN  0003-6293

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmut Gugel in the catalog of the German National Library