Karl AE Enenkel

Karl AE Enenkel (born March 31, 1959 in Vienna ), actually Karl Alfred Engelbert Enenkel , is an Austrian Middle and Neo-Latin philologist .

Karl AE Enenkel passed his Matura in Vienna in 1977 . From 1977 to 1979 he studied Classical Philology , Philosophy and Art History at the University of Vienna and from 1979 to 1985 Classical Philology, Middle and New Latin at the University of Leiden and the subject Middle Latin at the University of Amsterdam . From 1983 to 1985 he was a research assistant, from 1985 to 1989 research assistant at the University of Leiden. There he received his doctorate in 1990. This was followed by substitute professorships at the University of Leiden (1991/92) and at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (1992/93). From 1995 to 2004 he was a full university lecturer and from 2004 to 2010 an associate professor for Neo-Latin literature in Leiden. In 2008 he became a full member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences . Since 2010 Enenkel has been teaching as professor for Latin Philology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

His main research interests are neo-Latin literature, the reception of antiquity, the organization of knowledge in the early modern period , emblematics and ideology in Roman literature .

Fonts (selection)

• The invention of man. The autobiography of early modern humanism from Petrarch to Lipsius. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019352-7 .
• Culture Optimism and Culture Pessimism in the Renaissance. Study of Jacobus Canter's Dyalogus de solitudine. With a critical text edition and German translation (= early modern studies. 3). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1995, ISBN 3-631-48847-5 .
• Francesco Petrarca, De vita solitaria, Book I. Critical text edition and commentary on the history of ideas (= Leidse romanistic reeks van de Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden. 24). Brill et al., Leiden et al. 1990, ISBN 90-04-09333-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl AE Enenkel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page at the University of Münster