Joachim Dingel

Joachim Dingel (born February 7, 1938 in Gotha ) is a German classical philologist .

Joachim Limodore studied at the University of Tübingen , where he in 1965 with the thesis The prop in Greek tragedy doctorate was (published 1967). He then worked in Tübingen as a research assistant with a teaching position, after his habilitation (1972) as a private lecturer . In 1991 he was appointed university professor. In 1992 he moved to the University of Hamburg , where he worked until his retirement (2003).

His main research interests were Roman poetry and literary theory. Dingel is regarded as a distinguished Seneca and Quintilian connoisseur. He published, among other things, a book entitled Scholastica materia on Quintilian (1988), a commentary on the 9th book by Virgil's Aeneis (1997), an annotated bilingual edition of Seneca's poems (Heidelberg 2007) and the book The relative dating of Seneca's tragedies (2009).

Fonts (selection)

• The prop in Greek tragedy . Tübingen 1967 (dissertation)
• Seneca and the seal . Heidelberg 1974 (habilitation thesis)
• Scholastica materia. Studies on the Declamationes minores and the Institutio oratoria Quintilians . Berlin / New York 1988, ISBN 3-11-011462-3
• Commentary on Virgil's 9th Book of the Aeneid . Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-8253-0622-4
• Seneca's epigrams and other poems from the Anthologia Latina. Edition with translation and commentary . Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8253-5343-8
• The relative dating of Seneca's tragedies . Berlin / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-022574-7

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , 20th Edition (2005), p. 595
• Bianca-Jeanette and Jens-Peter Schröder (eds.): Studium declamatorium. Studies of school exercises and ceremonial speeches from antiquity to modern times. Joachim Dingel on his 65th birthday . Munich / Leipzig 2003 ( contributions to antiquity 176), ISBN 3-598-77725-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Joachim Dingel in the catalog of the German National Library