Johannes Divjak
Johannes Divjak (* 1943 ) is an Austrian classical philologist .
Life
After graduation in 1960 and the study of classical philology at the University of Vienna , he was on 22 December 1966, Rudolf Hanslik with the work S. Aureli Augustini expositio quarundam propositionum ex epistola ad Romanos, expositio in epistolam ad Galatas, expositio ad Romanos inchoata Ph.D. .
As an employee of a project of the Austrian Academy of Sciences to catalog all manuscripts of the writings of Augustine ("The handwritten tradition of the works of St. Augustine") he discovered in 1975 in a manuscript of the Bibliothèque Municipale in Marseille 29 previously unknown letters of Augustine, which today often referred to as the "Divjak letters". In 1977 he was awarded the Cardinal Innitzer Prize for the Humanities .
Until his retirement in 2008 he was an associate professor at the Institute for Classical Philology, Middle and New Latin at the University of Vienna .
literature
- Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 20th edition (2005), p. 602
Web links
- Literature by and about Johannes Divjak in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Divjak, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1943 |