Karl August Neuhausen

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Karl August Neuhausen (born December 14, 1939 in Cologne ; † October 5, 2017 in Siegburg ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Karl August Neuhausen studied classical philology at the University of Bonn from 1959 to 1964 . After graduating in 1964, he was in 1965 when Wolfgang Schmid with a Latin written dissertation Dr. phil. PhD . He then worked as a lecturer at the University of Bonn. In 1970 he was appointed Academic Senior Councilor. In 2005 he retired.

Neuhausen dealt with the Latin literature of antiquity, the Middle Ages and modern times. His best-known work is a commentary on Cicero's dialogue Laelius de amicitia . Neuhausen has been the editor of the Neo-Latin Yearbook and the Noctes Neolatinae since 1999 . Neo-Latin Texts and Studies . In the tradition of his academic teacher Schmid, he advocated Latin as a living language.

Fonts

  • De voluntarii notione Platonica et Aristotelea . Wiesbaden 1967 (Classical philological studies, volume 34; = dissertation, Bonn 1965)
  • M. Tullius Cicero, Laelius. Introduction and commentary . Two volumes, Heidelberg 1981–1992
  • with Arnold Becker, Marc Laureys and Georg Rudinger: Theodosius Schoepffer's “Gerontologia seu Tractatus de jure senum”. Cultural studies on a forgotten treatise on the law of the elderly . Göttingen 2011, excerpts online

literature

  • Traditio Classicorum. On the way to founding the Center for the Classical Tradition. Speeches and contributions on the occasion of the termination of the teaching activity of Karl August Neuhausen at the University of Bonn, Bonn 2006. (Bonner academic speeches 90)
  • Who is who? 45th edition, 2006/2007, p. 954.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice Karl August Neuhausen , FAZ , October 11, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Neuhausen, Karl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 2017
Place of death Siegburg