Karl Galinsky

Karl Galinsky (born February 7, 1942 in Strasbourg ) is an American classical philologist .

Galinsky, son of the Americanist Hans Galinsky , grew up in Alsace and Germany. He attended the humanistic high school in Mainz until he graduated from high school in 1961. Then he went to study in the USA. He received his Masters (1965) and PhD degrees (1966) from Princeton University .

Since 1966 he has taught at the University of Texas at Austin , where he has held the Floyd A. Cailloux Centennial Chair in Classical Studies since 1991.

In particular, he is a specialist in the Augustan era of Roman literature and history .

Awards (selection)

• 1979: Teaching Excellence Award from the American Philological Association
• 2009: Max Planck Research Award
• 2011: Honorary doctorate from the Ruhr University Bochum

Fonts (selection)

• Aeneas, Sicily, and Rome. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1969.
• The Heracles theme. The adaptations of the hero in literature from Homer to the twentieth century. Blackwell, Oxford 1972.
• Augustan culture. An interpretative introduction . Princeton University Press, Princeton 1996, ISBN 0-691-05890-3 .
• Augustus. Introduction to the life of an emperor. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012, ISBN 978-0-521-76797-2 .
  • German: Augustus. His life as an emperor. Translated by Cornelius Hartz . Zabern, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8053-4677-1 .

Web links

• Karl Galinsky. Department of Classics, University of Texas at Austin, 2012
• Homepage at the University of Texas