Helmut Rahn (philologist)

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Helmut Rahn (born September 16, 1919 in Frankfurt am Main ; † June 29, 2007 ) was a German classical scholar .

The son of the pharmacist Heinrich Rahn and his wife Johanna Lübbars studied philology and oriental languages at the universities of Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main. Due to his handicap from the consequences of spinal polio, Rahn was exempt from military service. In 1943 he obtained his doctorate and in 1952 his habilitation in Frankfurt am Main. With his habilitation in 1952 he obtained the license to teach and from 1959 he was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main . There he taught classical philology at the Philosophical Faculty until his retirement in 1984.

Helmut Rahn is buried in the Bockenheim cemetery.

Fonts

  • Plato and Dion of Prusa . 1944.
  • Ovid's elegiac epistle. In: Antiquity and the Occident. 7, 1958, pp. 105-120.
  • Cicero and the rhetoric. 1959.
  • Demosthenes and Cicero: On the question of the spiritual unity of antiquity. In: Atti del I congresso internazionale di studi ciceroniani. 2 volumes. Rome 1961.
  • The rhetorical culture of antiquity. In: The ancient language teaching. 10, 1967, pp. 23-49.
  • Animal and man in the Homeric conception of reality. Darmstadt 1968.
  • Morphology of Ancient Literature. An introduction. Darmstadt 1969.
  • (Ed.): Marcus Fabius Quintilianus: Institutionis oratoriae libri XII (training of the speaker). 2 volumes. Darmstadt 1972 and 1975.

literature

  • Walter Habel: Who is who? Berlin 1970.
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. 1992.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Bernfried Schlerath , The gift of life , Dettelach (JH Röll), 2000, ISBN 3-89754-165-3 , p. 81.