Hermann Funke (classical philologist)

Hermann Funke (born January 20, 1938 in Cologne , † February 11, 2015 in Heidelberg ) was a German classical philologist .

Hermann Funke studied classical philology at the University of Cologne and was there in 1963 with a thesis on the so-called tragic guilt: study on the idea of law in Greek tragedy doctorate . From 1964 to 1968 he worked at the Franz Joseph Dölger Institute at the University of Bonn , then as an assistant at the University of Mannheim . After a research stay at the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University (1971/1972) , he completed his habilitation in 1974 with the work Allegory and Poet's Declaration: Studies on Poetic Hermeneutics in Antiquity (unpublished). In 1978 he was appointed adjunct professor. He had been retired since 2003. In addition to his academic work, Funke was also politically active for many years in various parties and non-attached. In 1980 he was elected to the Heidelberg municipal council via the Green List , which he left soon after to join the municipal council as a non-attached party. In October 1993 Funke took over the leadership of the Heidelberg-Rhein-Neckar district association of the party The Republicans and ran for the party in the Heidelberg local elections on their second place on the list.

Individual evidence

1. ^ See right-wing ideology on the municipal elections in Heidelberg. , UNiMUT - newspaper (at) the University of Heidelberg. No. 84 of June 8, 1994

literature

• From the “green crosshead” to the board member of the Heidelberg “Republicans” . In: Frankfurter Rundschau of July 29, 1994, p. 7.
• Aristotle: fate of a tradition: from manuscript to editio princeps , Frankfurt am Main: Kaiser, 1997.
• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , Edition 2007, Volume 1, p. 959

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Funke in the catalog of the German National Library