Jochen Althoff
Jochen Althoff (born February 20, 1962 in Bad Oeynhausen ) is a German classical philologist .
Life
Althoff attended the Immanuel-Kant-Gymnasium in his hometown from 1972 to 1981 . He acquired the Graecum in a voluntary additional examination for the Abitur. From the summer semester of 1982 he studied Latin, Greek and philosophy at the University of Freiburg to become a teacher. In the spring of 1984 he became a research assistant at the Freiburg Seminar for Classical Philology. From September to December 1985 he studied at the University of Pittsburgh . In 1986 he returned to Freiburg, where he passed the first state examination in Latin and Greek on May 29, 1987. Subsequently, he supervised the Latin courses as a semi-official research assistant and was a semi-official personal assistant to Wolfgang Kullmann . On December 8, 1989, he received his dissertation “Warm, cold, liquid and solid” from Aristotle . The elementary qualities in the zoological writings ”with the grade“ summa cum laude ”.
From 1990 to 1991 he received a habilitation grant from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation in Essen. In 1991 he was appointed scientific assistant to Wolfgang Kullmann's Greek chair. On December 11, 1995, Althoff completed his habilitation with the text "Studies on the Beginnings of Scientific Literature among the Greeks". In the summer semester 1996 he took the chair of the retired Kullmann, in the winter semester 1996/97 the Greek chair at the University of Mainz , in the summer semester 1997 the Greek chair at the University of Regensburg , in the winter semester 1997/98 the Latin chair at the University of Trier , and again in the summer semester 1998 Greek chair in Mainz. On September 10, 1998, he was appointed full professor for Classical Philology / Greek Studies in Mainz .
Since 1999, Althoff has succeeded Klaus Döring as co-editor of the series Ancient Science and Its Reception (AKAN).
Web links
- Literature by Jochen Althoff in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jochen Althoff at the University of Mainz
Greek Studies: Franz Dirlmeier (1946–1951) | Walter Marg (1953–1975) | Joachim Latacz (1978–1981) | Arbogast Schmitt (1981-1991) | Christoph Riedweg (1993–1996) | Jochen Althoff (since 1998)
Latin Studies I: Wilhelm Süß (1946–1950) | Andreas Thierfelder (1950–1971) | Jürgen Blänsdorf (1971–2004) | Christine Walde (since 2005)
Latin Studies II: Erich Reitzenstein (1960–1965) | Willy Schetter (1965–1972) | Antonie Wlosok (1973–1998) | Wilhelm Blümer (since 2001)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Althoff, Jochen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Oeynhausen |