Jürgen Leonhardt

Jürgen Leonhardt (born August 12, 1957 in Lahr / Black Forest ) is a German classical philologist .

After studying musicology and classical philology at the universities of Tübingen and Munich from 1976 to 1982, he worked as a research assistant in Munich until 1993. In 1985 the doctorate took place there, in 1994 the habilitation. In the same year Leonhardt was appointed full professor at the University of Rostock . In 1997 he moved to the University of Marburg , and in 2004 to Tübingen to the chair for Latin Philology II. Leonhardt has been a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 2006 and was deputy chairman of the German Association of Classical Philology from 2001 to 2005 .

From 2008 Leonhard acted as dean of the Faculty of Cultural Studies. After he was elected merger commissioner in July 2009, he prepared to merge this faculty with two others to form a new faculty of philosophy. As a result, he resigned as dean of the previous Faculty of Cultural Studies in January 2010 and was elected full-time dean of the new Philosophical Faculty in July 2010. He took office on October 1, 2010. Robert Kirstein has represented his chair for Latin Philology since 2011 .

Leonhardt's main research interests include Latin and Greek literature from ancient times to the early modern period . He wrote monographs on Latin verse theory from late antiquity to the early Renaissance , on the origin of Greek drama and on Cicero's criticism of the schools of philosophy. His nonfiction book on the history of Latin, first published in 2009, was published in French in 2010 and in English in 2013. Further research interests of Leonhardt are the meaning and reception of the Latin language in Europe, the educational history of the early modern period and the neo-Latin literature. In addition, he has also emerged as the editor of choral music ( Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach : Die alte Litanei ).

Leonhardt is married and has three children.

Fonts (selection)

• Dimensio syllabarum. Studies of Latin prosody and verse theory from late antiquity to the early renaissance. With a detailed list of sources up to 1600 . Göttingen 1989 (= Hypomnemata 92; also dissertation, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich), ISBN 3-525-25191-2 .
• Phalloslied and Dithyrambos. Aristotle on the origin of the Greek drama . Heidelberg 1991 (= treatises of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class 1991.4) ISBN 3-533-04353-3 .
• Cicero's Critique of Philosophy Schools . Munich 1999 (= Zetemata 103; also habilitation thesis, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich), ISBN 3-406-44729-5 .
• Latin. History of a world language . Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-56898-5 .
  • French translation by Bertrand Vacher: La grande histoire du latin . Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-271-06962-7 . New edition 2015, ISBN 978-2-271-08694-5 .
  • English translation by Kenneth Kronenberg: Latin. Story of a World Language . Cambridge, Massachusetts / London 2013, ISBN 978-0-674-05807-1 .

Editing

• Melanchthon and the 16th Century Textbook. Accompanying volume for the exhibition in the Rostock Cultural History Museum, April 25 to July 13, 1997 . Rostock 1997, ISBN 3-86009-118-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürgen Leonhardt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jürgen Leonhardt at the University of Tübingen
• Entry on Jürgen Leonhardt in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium