Jan Stenger
Jan Stenger (born November 30, 1972 in Hamburg ) is a German classical philologist who teaches ancient Greek as a professor at the University of Würzburg .
After graduating from Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium in Darmstadt, Stenger studied classical philology and history (state examination) at the universities of Heidelberg and Tübingen from 1993 to 2000 . He then worked until 2008 as a research assistant to Lutz Käppel at the chair for Classical Philology ( Greek Studies ) at Kiel University . In 2003 he received his doctorate there with a thesis on gnomics in the Epinics of Bakchylides . For this work, Stenger was awarded the sponsorship prize of the Hamburg Dr. Helmut and Hannelore Greve Foundation for Science and Culture. In 2008 he completed his habilitation in Kiel with a thesis on Hellenic identity in late antiquity .
He then worked as a junior professor at the Institute for Greek and Latin Philology at the Free University of Berlin and at the same time at the Cluster of Excellence 264 TOPOI . In the winter semester 2009/10 he was a professor at the Institute for Classical Studies at the University of Cologne . In 2012, Stenger was offered the MacDowell Chair in Ancient Greek at the University of Glasgow , which he accepted on October 1, 2012. On January 1, 2020, he switched to the Chair of Greek Studies at the University of Würzburg .
Jan Stenger's research interests include classical Greek choral poetry ( Bakchylides ), Greek literature of late antiquity ( Libanios , Themistios , Julian , Prokopios von Gaza ) and the representation of emotions in Greek literature. He has also published on Latin authors such as Suetonius and Ammianus Marcellinus .
From summer 2017 to summer 2018 Jan Stenger was a visiting scholar at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) in Uppsala .
Publications
Monographs
- Poetic reasoning. The function of gnomics in the epinicias of Bakchylides . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2004
- Hellenic Identity in Late Antiquity: Pagan Authors and Their Discomfort with Their Own Time . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2009
- John Chrysostom and the Christianization of the Polis: "So that the cities become cities". Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2019
Important essays
- Narrative indeterminacy in the Odyssey. A contribution to the conventions of Homeric epic . In: Luther, A. (ed.): History and fiction in the Homeric Odyssey . Munich 2006, pp. 217-238
- Apophthegma, Gnome and Chrie. On the relationship between three small literary forms , in: Philologus 150 (2006), pp. 203–221.
- Pindarum quisquis studies aemulari. Himerios' 38th speech and the epinic poetry , in: Hermes 136 (2008), pp. 348–367.
- Dion of Prusa and the semiosis of the idol , in: Millennium 6 (2009), pp. 39–60.
- Chorikios and the Ekphrasis of St. Stephen's Church in Gaza: Education and Christianity in an Urban Context , in: Yearbook for Ancient and Christianity 53 (2010), pp. 81-103.
- Stay seated or get up? Caesar's symbolic communication on the stage of the Forum Iulium (Suet. Iul. 78) , in: Mundt, F. (ed.): Spaces of communication in Rome during the imperial period. Berlin 2012, pp. 143–168.
- Libanios and public opinion in Antioch , in: Kuhn, CT (ed.): Political communication and public opinion in the ancient world. Franz Steiner: Stuttgart 2012, pp. 231-254.
- Body, cognition, culture: body part designations in Greek , in: Müller, K. and Wagner, A. (Ed.): Synthetic body conception in Hebrew and the languages of neighboring cultures. Ugarit Verlag: Münster 2014, pp. 163-183. ISBN 9783868351088
- "I am the boundary of the agora." On the cognitive cityscape of the Athenians in classical times , in: May, NM and Steinert, U. (ed.): The Fabric of Cities: Aspects of Urbanism, Urban Topography and Society in Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome. Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands 2014, pp. 203-228. ISBN 9789004262331
- On the use and abuse of philosophy for life: John Chrysostom's paradoxical view of knowledge , in: Geus, K. and Geller, M. (eds.): Esoteric Knowledge in Antiquity. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: Berlin 2014, pp. 85-105.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from May 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from July 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.swedishcollegium.se/subfolders/Fellows/Invited_Fellows/2017-18/stenger.html
Web link
First chair: Bonaventura Andres (1783–1809) | Ferdinand Blümm (1809–1821) | Peter von Richarz (1821–1835; previously since 1817 associate professor) | Ernst von Lasaulx (1837–1844; previously since 1835 associate professor) | Franz Josef Hermann Reuter (1844–1867) | Wilhelm Studemund (1869–1870; previously since 1868 associate professor) | Martin Schanz (1874–1912; previously since 1870 associate professor) | Carl Hosius (1913–1933) | Josef Martin (1933–1952) | Rudolf Güngerich (1953–1968) | Carl Joachim Classen (1969–1973) | Udo W. Scholz (1974-2007) | Thomas Baier (since 2008)
Second chair (until 1899 also for classical archeology, 1900–1919 extraordinary professorship): Ludwig von Urlichs (1855–1889) | Karl Sittl (1889–1899) | Thomas Stangl (1900–1921)
Third chair: Franz Boll (1903–1908) | Otto Stählin (1908–1913) | Engelbert Drerup (1913–1923) | Friedrich Pfister (1924–1951) | Franz Dirlmeier (1951–1959) | Ernst Siegmann (1960–1981) | Thomas A. Szlezák (1983–1990) | Michael Erler (1991–2019) | Jan Stenger (since 2020)
Professorship for Classical Philology: Bernd Manuwald (1981–1983) | Ludwig Braun (1985-2008) | Christian Tornau (since 2009)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Stenger, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |