Joachim Adamietz

Joachim Adamietz (born November 25, 1934 in Schwientochlowitz , Upper Silesia ; † May 26, 1996 in Marburg ) was a German classical philologist who worked as a professor at the universities of Gießen (1971–1988) and Marburg (1988–1996). As a Latinist , he primarily dealt with Roman satire, rhetoric and the Roman epic.

Life

Joachim Adamietz, the son of the bank employee Karl Adamietz, grew up in Silesia and lived in Hildesheim after his family fled. There and in Giessen he attended high school. In the summer semester of 1954, he began studying philology and philosophy at the University of Marburg . From 1955 to 1956 he spent two semesters at the University of Tübingen , where he attended lectures and exercises with Walter Jens , Wolfgang Schadewaldt , Ernst Vogt , Otto Weinreich and Ernst Zinn . In Marburg he was particularly influenced by the Latinist Carl Becker , with whom Adamietz received his doctorate in 1960 . After graduating, he stayed in London for a year, where he began working at the Institutio oratoriae des Quintilian . Otto Skutsch and James A. Willis supported him .

After his return to Germany, Adamietz completed his legal clerkship at the Ludwigs-Gymnasium Gießen from 1961 to 1963. Vinzenz Buchheit then offered him a position as a lecturer at the University of Giessen , which Adamietz accepted in the summer of 1963. During this time he brought his annotated edition of the third book of the Institutio oratoriae to completion and prepared his habilitation , which he achieved in 1970 with a thesis on the satirist Juvenal . In 1971 he was appointed H2 professor. In the 1978 summer semester he held a chair at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . In the summer semester of 1988 he accepted a position at the University of Marburg, where he held a chair and professor of classical philology until his sudden death (1996).

Adamietz pursued various topics in his research. His main areas since his studies and the time in Giessen were Roman rhetoric, satire (especially Juvenal and Petron ) and the Argonaut epic by Valerius Flaccus . In addition, he also dealt extensively with Roman comedy, with the Platonic dialogue Parmenides and with Asian rhetoric.

Fonts (selection)

• Ciceros De inventione and the rhetoric ad Herennium . Marburg 1960
• MF Quintilianus / Institutionis oratoriae liber III. With a commentary published by JA Munich 1966 ( Studia et testimonia antiqua 2)
• Research on Juvenal . Wiesbaden 1972 ( Hermes individual fonts 26)
• On the composition of the Argonautica by Valerius Flaccus . Munich 1976 ( Zetemata 67)
• The Roman satire . Darmstadt 1986
• Marcus Tullius Cicero / Pro Murena. Edited with a comment by JA Darmstadt 1989. 2nd, unchanged edition, Darmstadt 1996 ( Texts on Research 55)
• Juvenal / Satires: Latin-German. Edited, translated and annotated by JA Munich / Zurich 1993

literature

• Walter Wimmel : Joachim Adamietz † . In: Gnomon . Volume 70 (1998), pp. 280-283

Web links

• Literature by Joachim Adamietz in the catalog of the German National Library