Jens Holzhausen

Holzhausen in March 2018 in front of the Nestor cup he researched in the Museo Archeologico di Pithecusae on Ischia .

Jens Holzhausen (born June 22, 1963 in Berlin ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

Jens Holzhausen studied Classical Philology and Protestant Theology at the Free University of Berlin and at the University of Tübingen . In the winter semester 1992/93 he was at Karin Old and Carsten Colpe with the dissertation The myth of man 'in Hellenistic Egypt Dr. phil. PhD . For this typeface he received the Mommsen Society's 1995 Bruno Snell Prize . From 1995 to 2000, Holzhausen worked as a research assistant at the Department of Classical Philology at the Free University of Berlin. In 1999 he completed his habilitation with the study Farewell to Athens. A study on the Euripidean Orestes , which he published in two parts in 2000 and 2003.

After completing his habilitation, Holzhausen was a fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University from 2000 to 2001 . From 2002 to 2003 he was again employed as a senior assistant at the Free University of Berlin, from 2003 to 2004 he represented the Graecist chair at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . From 2004 to 2005 he completed the teaching traineeship in Erlangen and then taught Greek, Latin and Protestant religion at the Pegnitz grammar school . In 2008 he moved to the Gymnasium Fridericianum Erlangen . In the same year he took on a teaching position at the University of Bamberg , which appointed him extraordinary professor . In 2011 he received the German Teacher Award .

Holzhausen's main research interests include Greek tragedy , Platonism , Gnosis , Hermetics and early Christianity .

Fonts (selection)

• The 'Myth of Man' in Hellenistic Egypt. A study on "Poimandres" (= CH I), on Valentin and the Gnostic myth . Bodenheim 1993 (dissertation, Free University Berlin)
• Greek style exercises. An exercise and textbook on the Greek language . Munich 1995
• Eros and Aidos in Phaedra's monologue. Euripides Hippolytos 373-430 . Stuttgart 1995
• Corpus Hermeticum. Translated and commented by Jens Holzhausen, with introductions by Carsten Colpe , I – II, Stuttgart 1993
  • The Corpus Hermeticum German. Part 1: The Greek treatises and the Latin "Asclepius" . Stuttgart 1997
  • The Corpus Hermeticum German. Part 2: Excerpts, Nag Hammadi texts, testimony . Stuttgart 1997
• Paideía or Paidiá. Aristotle and Aristophanes on the Effect of Greek Tragedy . Stuttgart 2000 (partial print of the habilitation thesis)
• Euripides politicos. Law and vengeance in "Orestes" and "Bakchen" . Munich / Leipzig 2003 (partial print of the habilitation thesis)

Editing

• ΨΥΧΗ. Festschrift for Karin Alt on May 7, 1998 . Stuttgart / Leipzig 1998
• Bernd Seidensticker : About enjoying tragic objects. Studies on ancient drama . Munich / Leipzig 2005

Web links

• Literature by Jens Holzhausen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jens Holzhausen at the Institute for Classical Philology at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg