Joachim Dalfen
Joachim Dalfen (born November 4, 1936 in Hindenburg (Upper Silesia) ; † March 4, 2017 in Puch near Hallein ) was an Austrian classical philologist of German origin.
Joachim Dalfen and his family came to Munich as a refugee in 1946 and attended the Theresien-Gymnasium until 1953 . He received his doctorate in 1966 in Munich with the dissertation Research into the History of Forms on the Self- Contemplations of Marcus Aurelius and was then employed as a lecturer for Greek and Latin style exercises. In 1971 he achieved his habilitation as a university lecturer in Salzburg with the font Polis and Poiesis: The Confrontation with Poetry in Plato and his contemporaries . In 1972 Dalfen was appointed full professor with a focus on Greek studies. From 1981 to 1983 Dalfen was dean of the humanities faculty, from 1985 to 1987 rector of the university. From 1987 he was co-editor of the Graz contributions . In the summer semester of 2005, Dalfen retired. He gave his farewell lecture on the subject of 'Don't hope in Plato's state. Encounters between a philologist and Emperor Marc Aurel ' . His successor was Thomas Schirren in the 2007 summer semester . Dalfen was a corresponding member of the philosophical-historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . There he headed the Commission for Ancient Literature and Latin Tradition. He was also a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences .
His main focus was on Plato and Marc Aurel research. His text edition by Marcus Aurelius on Ad se ipsum libri XII, published in 1972 in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana, is the authoritative text edition to this day. He has also dealt with ancient European literature and culture in numerous publications, especially Greek tragedy and philosophy, but also on Latin authors such as Cicero and Caesar .
Fonts (selection)
Monographs
- Formal historical investigations into the self-contemplation of Marcus Aurelius. Habelt, Bonn 1967.
- Changes in an ancient interpretation of human existence (= Salzburg University Speeches. Vol. 52). Pustet, Salzburg 1974
- Polis and Poiesis. The examination of poetry by Plato and his contemporaries. Fink, Munich 1974.
- Parmenides - Protagoras - Plato - Marc Aurel. Small writings on Greek philosophy, politics, religion and science. Steiner, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 9783515102117 .
literature
- Dalfen, Joachim. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists. Volume 1: A - G. 30th edition. De Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-051766-8 , p. 559.
- Wolfgang Speyer: Joachim Dalfen † . In: Gnomon , Vol. 91, 2019, Issue 5, pp. 478-480.
Web links
- Literature by and about Joachim Dalfen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Press release of the University of Salzburg: Encounters between a philologist and Kaiser Marc Aurel - farewell lecture by Joachim Dalfen , October 21, 2005.
Remarks
Focus on Latin Studies : Georg Pfligersdorffer (1964–1986) | Gerhard Petersmann (1986-2010) | Dorothea Weber (since 2012)
Focus on Greek studies : Erenbert Josef Schächer (1965–1971) | Joachim Dalfen (1972–2005) | Thomas Schirren (since 2007)
Egon Lendl (1964–1965) | Carl Holböck (1965–1966) | René Marcic (1966–1967) | Stefan Rehrl (1967–1968) | Wolfgang Waldstein (1968–1969) | Rudolf Baehr (1969–1970) | Stefan Rehrl (1970–1971) | Friedrich Koja (1971–1972) | Ingo Reiffenstein (1972–1973) | Franz Nikolasch (1973–1974) | Franz Matscher (1974–1975) | Hans Wagner (1975–1977) | Wilhelm Josef Revers (1977–1979) | Wolfgang Beilner (1979–1983) | Friedrich Koja (1983–1985) | Joachim Dalfen (1985–1987) | Fritz Schweiger (1987–1989) | Theodor Wolfram Köhler (1989–1991) | Alfred Kyrer (1991–1993) | Edgar Morscher (1993–1995) | Adolf Haslinger (1995-2001) | Heinrich Schmidinger (2001–2019) | Hendrik Lehnert (since 2019)
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| SURNAME | Dalfen, Joachim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian classical philologist of German origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hindenburg (Upper Silesia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th March 2017 |
| Place of death | Puch near Hallein |