Klaus Alpers

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Klaus Alpers (born September 27, 1935 in Lüneburg ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

After graduating from high school at the Johanneum in Lüneburg, Klaus Alpers studied classical philology, ancient history and philosophy at the University of Hamburg since 1956 . From 1960 to 1964 he was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . In 1964 he was awarded the dissertation Theognostos: Peri orthographias. Tradition, sources and text of canons 1–84 received his doctorate from Hartmut Erbse . From 1964 he worked at the Hamburg Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (first on the Hippocrates Index, then on the Lexicon of the Early Greek Epic and finally until 1989, alongside Volkmar Schmidt , as editor of the Index Hippocraticus ). In 1971 he was appointed Scientific Councilor at the University of Hamburg. His habilitation took place in 1977 with the work Das Attizistische Lexikon des Oros. Examination and critical edition of the fragments (Berlin 1981). In 1984 he was appointed university professor in Hamburg. He retired in 2000.

Alpers has been a member of the Danish Academy of Sciences since 1985 , whose commission for the Corpus Lexicographorum Graecorum he has been a member of since 1970, and of the Braunschweig Scientific Society (since 1999). In 2006 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Theognostos: "Peri orthographias". Tradition, sources and text of canons 1–84. Dissertation Hamburg 1964.
  • Report on the status and method of the edition of the Etymologicum genuinum. Munksgaard, København 1969.
  • The attic lexicon of oros. De Gruyter, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-11-006549-5 .
  • Classical philologists in Hamburg from the 17th to the 20th century. Bautz, Herzberg 1990, ISBN 3-88309-028-X .
  • Investigations on Johannes Sardianos and his commentary on the progymnasmata of aphthonios. Treatises of the Braunschweig Scientific Society. Vol. 62. Cramer, Braunschweig 2009, ISBN 978-3-934656-27-7 (2nd, revised and improved edition, University Library Braunschweig 2013, ISBN 978-3-927115-70-5 , digitized [1] ).
  • Lüneburg and antiquity. Studies on the reception of ancient materials in humanism of the 16th century in Lüneburg . Museum Association for the Principality of Lüneburg, Lüneburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-922616-20-7 .

Editorships (selection)

  • together with H. Erbse and A. Kleinlogel; since 2007 with Ian C. Cunningham: Collection of Greek and Latin grammarians. De Gruyter, Berlin 1974–
  • together with D. Harlfinger and DR Reinsch; since 2008 also with Christian Brockmann: Serta Graeca. Reichert, Wiesbaden 1992–
  • together with E. Michael and U. Plath: Lüneburger Blätter. Museum Association for the Principality of Lüneburg, Lüneburg 2010–

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2009 . Volume 1, Saur, Munich 2009, p. 43.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Vogel : Greeting on the farewell to Prof. Dr. Klaus Alpers will retire on November 7th at 6 p.m. in the Warburg House . Hamburg 2000.
personal data
SURNAME Alpers, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg