Jürgen Werner (Philologist)
Jürgen Werner (born July 14, 1931 in Dresden ) is a German classical philologist .
Jürgen Werner has been permanently associated with the University of Leipzig since studying Classical Philology. After completing his studies, he initially worked there as a lecturer and from 1976 (until 1990) as head of the Department of Ancient Literature / Neo-Greek Studies . His doctorate took place in 1957 with a dissertation on the subject of " Ancient Greek proverbs sorted according to subject groups ". He completed his habilitation in 1965 with a thesis on " Studies on the History of Aristophanes Germanization ". From 1990 until his retirement in 1996 he was director of the new Institute for Classical Philology.
Werner also emerged as a translator and editor of Greek authors, including Aristophanes . He was also head of a working group that rewrote the GDR's “ Modern Greek Textbook ” in 1981. Werner also dealt with specialist history and is an outspoken expert on the work of Franz Dornseiff . The Graecist Werner had been a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences since 1985 , as well as a member of the Mommsen Society and the German Association of Classical Philologists . From 1963 to 1990 he was editor of the Greek series in the library of antiquity project, which he co-founded .
Fonts (selection)
- The playwright and the midwife's son. Brecht and the Legacy: The Case of Socrates . Hirzel, Leipzig and Stuttgart 1998 (session reports of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class, vol. 136, no.1) ISBN 3-7776-0880-7 .
- "The world did not start with the Greeks". Franz Dornseiff (1888–1960) as a classical philologist and Germanist . Hirzel, Leipzig and Stuttgart 1999 (Treatises of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class, Vol. 76, H. 1) ISBN 3-7776-0959-5 .
literature
- Ekkehard strenght , Günther Steffen Henrich : honor colloquium for Jürgen Werner . In: Philologus , vol. 141 (1997), p. 171.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jürgen Werner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Jürgen Werner at the University of Leipzig
First chair (from 1985 Greek studies ): Johann Friedrich Christ (1739–1756) | Johann August Ernesti (1756–1770) | August Wilhelm Ernesti (1770–1801) | Gottfried Hermann (1803–1848) | Reinhold Klotz (1849–1870) | Ludwig Lange (1871–1885) | Kurt Wachsmuth (1886–1905) | Erich Bethe (1906–1931) | Jürgen Werner (1985–1996) | Kurt Sier (since 1996)
Second chair (since 1974 Latin studies ): Friedrich Wolfgang Reiz (1782–1785) | Christian Daniel Beck (1785-1819) | Friedrich August Wilhelm Spohn (1819–1824) | Christian Daniel Beck (1825-1832) | Anton Westermann (1834–1865) | Friedrich Ritschl (1865–1876) | Otto Ribbeck (1877–1898) | Friedrich Marx (1899–1906) | Richard Heinze (1906–1929) | Friedrich Klingner (1930–1947) | Franz Dornseiff (1948–1960) | Walter Hofmann (1974–1990) | Ekkehard Stark (1992-2001) | Marcus Deufert (since 2003)
Third chair: Otto Jahn (1847–1850) | Gregor Wilhelm Nitzsch (1852–1861) | Georg Curtius (1862-1885) | Erwin Rohde (1886)
Fourth chair: Justus Hermann Lipsius (1877–1914) | Bruno Keil (1914–1916) | Alfred Körte (1917–1934) | Wolfgang Schadewaldt (1934–1941) | Karl Reinhardt (1942–1946)
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| SURNAME | Werner, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |