Karin Alt

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Karin Alt (born May 7, 1928 in Klotzsche near Dresden ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

Alt studied classical philology, German and philosophy at the University of Tübingen . She received her doctorate from the tragic poet Euripides in 1953 in Frankfurt am Main under Karl Reinhardt's work on the choir , and in the same year she passed the state examination in Greek, Latin and German. In 1955 she passed the assessor examination. In the following years (1956–58) she worked in Munich with the creation of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae . She has been teaching at the Free University of Berlin since October 1958 , where she completed her habilitation in 1970 and became a professor in 1971. She has been retired since October 1, 1993, but continues to teach.

Alt's main research interests are Greek tragedy and the philosophy of Plato, including Middle and Neoplatonism .

Karin Alt is Manfred Kyber's granddaughter .

Publications (selection)

  • Studies on the choir with Euripides, Diss. Phil. Frankfurt 1953
  • Euripides, Helena (Teubner), Leipzig 1964
  • The persuasion of Ananke , Hermes 106.3 (1978)
  • Philosophy versus gnosis. Plotin's polemics in his writing II 9 (AAWM 1990 No. 7), Stuttgart 1990
  • World flight and world affirmation. On the question of dualism in Plutarch, Numenios, Plotin (AAWM 1993 No. 8), Stuttgart 1993
  • God, gods and soul in Alcinous (AAWM 1996 No. 3), Stuttgart 1996
  • Hippolytos as a speaker of Platonic teachings , in: Yearbook for Antike and Christianity 40 (1997), pp. 78-105
  • Socratic search for traces into the 21st century , Verlag Humboldt Society for Science, Art and Education, Mannheim 1998
  • Mens agitat molem: From the formative spirit of the sciences. Treatises , Verlag Humboldt Society for Science, Art and Education, Mannheim 2003
  • Plotinus , Fascination Philosophy series, Buchner, Bamberg 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nelli Nickel: Listen to Kyber in the silence. In: Voices.de. March 10, 2008, accessed December 1, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Old, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Klotzsche near Dresden