Jürgen Blänsdorf

Jürgen Blänsdorf (born June 1, 1936 in Braunschweig ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

Blänsdorf, the son of an elementary school teacher, attended elementary schools in Braunschweig and Wolfshagen in the Harz Mountains , went to the Gaußschule in Braunschweig in 1947 and, after graduating from high school in 1956, began studying Latin, Greek and history at the University of Freiburg . After two semesters in Kiel (1958–1959), he passed the first state examination in Latin and history in 1962. He then worked as an assistant at the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Freiburg and received his doctorate in 1965 with the dissertation Archaic Thoughts in the Comedies of Plautus , which was published in an expanded form in 1967 in the series Hermes-Einzelschriften .

After completing his habilitation with Karl Büchner in 1971 with unpublished studies on the history of interpretation in Greek and Latin philology , he accepted an appointment at the University of Mainz in August of the same year , where he succeeded the retired Andreas Thierfelder . From 1973 to 1985 Blänsdorf was liaison professor of the German National Academic Foundation , from 1975 to 1977 dean of Faculty 15 - Philology and from 1975 to 1982 chairman of the university examinations commission of the joint committee of faculties 11-16 and 23. From 1987 to 2003 he was co-editor of the Hermes individual fonts . He retired on September 30, 2004.

Blänsdorf and his students staged many original Latin dramas and, in addition to performances in Freiburg and Mainz, also gave guest performances in Pavia, Saarbrücken, Tübingen and Wolfenbüttel.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürgen Blänsdorf in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jürgen Blänsdorf's website at jurgen-blansdorf-mainz.de
• Curriculum vitae and list of publications by Jürgen Blänsdorf at the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Mainz