Karin Metzler

Karin Metzler (born March 29, 1956 in Berlin ) is a German Byzantinist .

Life

Karin Metzler studied Classical Philology ( Greek Studies ) and German Philology in Berlin , Tübingen and Zurich from 1975 to 1982 . From 1982 to 1984 she completed her training at the seminar for school education (grammar schools) in Esslingen (Greek, German, Latin ; 1991 additional examination in Protestant religious teaching). From 1985 to 1994 she worked as a research assistant at the Patristic Laboratory in Bochum of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences with Martin Tetz . After graduationIn 1990, in Classical Philology at the University of Zurich , she was a research assistant at the Byzantine-Modern Greek Seminar at the Free University of Berlin with Diether Roderich Reinsch from 1994 to 1999 . From 2001 to 2006 she was a research assistant on the Leibniz project of Christoph Markschies : Edition of the Genesis Commentaries of Origen and Prokop of Gaza for the Greek Christian writers of the first centuries (2001-2004 at the University of Heidelberg , 2004-2006 at the Humboldt University Berlin ). Since 2004 she has been teaching as a private lecturer in Byzantine Studies at the Free University of Berlin (Department of Philosophy and Humanities, Institute for Greek and Latin Philology). Since 2006 she has been a research assistant in the long-term project of the DFG under the direction of Christoph Markschies: Edition of the Genesis, Exodus and Leviticus Commentaries by Prokop of Gaza (from the so-called Oktateuchkatene ).

Her research interests are Greek language, literature and tradition (ancient and medieval), edition and translation of Greek texts from patristic and Byzantine studies, Byzantine literature and Greek palaeography.

Fonts (selection)

• The Greek term of forgiveness. Examined on the word stem syngnome from the first evidence up to the fourth century AD (= Scientific investigations on the New Testament 2nd row. Volume 44). JCB Mohr, Tübingen 1991, ISBN 3-16-145671-8 (also dissertation, Zurich 1990).
• with Frank Simon: Ariana et Athanasiana. Studies on the tradition and philological problems of the works of Athanasius of Alexandria (= treatises of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences. Volume 83). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1991, ISBN 3-531-05100-8 .
• What Bible text did Athanasius use in exile? On the origin of the biblical quotations in the Arian speeches compared to ep. ad epp. Aeg. (= Treatises of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences. Volume 96). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1997, ISBN 3-531-05116-4 .
• Eustathios of Thessalonica and monasticism. Studies and commentary on the text "De emendanda vita monachica" (= Supplementa Byzantina. Volume 9). De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2006, ISBN 3-11-018905-4 (also habilitation thesis, HU Berlin 2004).

Web links

• Metzler, Karin .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
• Free University of Berlin
• Theological Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin