Jürgen Mau

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Jürgen Mau (born September 26, 1916 in Strasbourg ; † December 4, 2007 in Göttingen ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Jürgen Mau is a great-grandson of the Holstein theologian and politician Johann August Mau . After completing his secondary school leaving certificate, he studied classical philology, but had to drop out when the Second World War broke out . After the end of the war he returned to Germany seriously wounded and began his studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he received his doctorate in 1949 with the dissertation Studies on the Epistemological Basis of Atomic Science in Antiquity . Mau dealt with the atomists in a few other writings. From 1947 to 1954, Mau was a research assistant at the Institute for Hellenistic-Roman Philosophy at the German Academy of Sciences in East Berlin, where he carried out work on Epicurus . After receiving his doctorate, Mau taught as a research assistant at Humboldt University, where he completed his habilitation in 1959 with a critical and exegetical commentary including a translation on Galen's Introduction to Logic . In the same year he was appointed academic professor.

Mau had his residence in Berlin-Zehlendorf . After the Wall was built , he gave up his job in East Berlin and moved to the Georg-August University in Göttingen . Here he expanded his research area to include the use of IT in philology. As part of annual interdisciplinary colloquia, he dealt with the possible uses of computer technology in editing and lexicography. In 1970 he was promoted to the Academic Council . His students include the Romance studies and LDV specialist Ursula Klenk and the classical scholars Christopher K. Callanan , Dietmar Najock and Otta Wenskus .

Mau also supplied numerous articles for Little Pauly , including the Lemmata Apollonios von Perge , Milky Way and Water Clock . His editions of the writings Adversus mathematicos by Sextus Empiricus (Leipzig 1954. Leipzig ² 1962) and Moralia by Plutarch (Leipzig 1971) received much attention.

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , Vol. 2, 2003, p. 2117.
  • Ursula Klenk: Jürgen Mau † . In: Gnomon Volume 80 (2008), pp. 478-479

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Academy of Sciences in Berlin: Yearbook of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin 1950–1951 . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1951, p. 143
  2. ^ German Academy of Sciences in Berlin: Yearbook of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin 1954 . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1956, pp. 276–278.

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personal data
SURNAME Mau, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 2007
Place of death Goettingen