Klaus Bartels (classical philologist)

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Klaus Bartels (born February 19, 1936 in Hanover ; † April 2, 2020 in Kilchberg ZH ) was a German-Swiss classical philologist .

Life

Klaus Bartels studied classical philology and philosophy in Tübingen , Munich and London . In Tübingen he was a student and employee of his doctoral supervisor Wolfgang Schadewaldt . From 1963 he edited the Lexicon of the Old World for Artemis Verlag in Zurich and published the series Lebendige Antike and Dialog mit der Antike . From 1972 he taught Latin , Greek and philosophy at the Zurich Cantonal Schools Hohe Promenade, Literargymnasium Rämibühl and Zürcher Oberland ( Wetzikon ). Study trips with school classes and private vacations took him to Rome again and again . Some of what he acquired there over many years he finally published in Rome's Talking Stones .

The father of three and grandfather of seven lived with his wife in Kilchberg near Zurich, had been a German-Swiss citizen since 2006, and since his retirement he devoted himself entirely to his journalistic activities, which he had been doing since 1972.

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As a columnist in various daily newspapers in Switzerland , Germany and Austria (especially NZZ , Stuttgarter Zeitung , Die Presse ), Bartels created essentially two literary genres of his own, the highlights from antiquity and the word stories with which he explored antiquity and classical philology brought closer to a wide audience. Many of his contributions are in book form.

With the volume Veni vidi vici , first published in 1966, he created a handy collection of the winged words from Greek and Latin, translated and explained. This book has been continuously expanded and supplemented by the author and was published in the 15th edition in 2016.

With the work Rome's speaking stones , published in 2000 , Bartels presented an extensive bilingual collection of inscriptions from the city of Rome from two millennia, with which the often claused Latin inscriptions are made accessible to a wider audience.

honors and awards

  • 2018 Award of the Pegasus Needle by the German Association of Classical Philology
  • 2017 Appointment as Guest of Honor of the Central Library Zurich
  • 2004 Award of the annual prize of the “ Foundation for Occidental Reflection ” (Zurich) together with the Germanist Rainer Kunze. In his laudation, the publisher Michael Klett formulated : The texts of this author give a knowledge that seems remote, new strength and color, give words that are said thoughtlessly, back the meaning that has evaporated.

Fonts (in selection)

  • Winged words from ancient times. Where do they come from and what they mean . Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8053-4637-5 .
  • Veni vidi vici, Winged words from Greek and Latin (15th, revised and supplemented edition 2016), ISBN 978-3-8053-4998-7 .
  • Rome's speaking stones, inscriptions from two millennia (3rd, reviewed and supplemented edition 2004), ISBN 3-8053-2690-4 .
  • Millennium words - spoken in the present. Selected, translated and presented by Klaus Bartels. (2011, 2nd, revised and supplemented edition, Rombach Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 2019).
  • Winged words from ancient times - where they come from and what they mean. Darmstadt / Mainz 2013.
  • Klaus Bartels and Niklaus Peter, Nicholas sermons in the Fraumünster. Ancient and biblical texts in dialogue. Theological Publishing House, Zurich 2017.
  • From the life of words. Word stories from the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung". Rombach Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 2019.

Word stories (anthologies)

  • How the amphora became a traffic light (1987)
  • How Berenike came to the vernissage (1996; 3rd, reviewed edition 2004)
  • How the Helmsman Landed in Cyberspace (1998)
  • How the marmots learned to mumble (2001)
  • Truffle pigs in the potato field (2003)
  • The pig in the china shop (2008), ISBN 978-3-8053-3914-8

Grazing lights from antiquity (anthologies)

  • Owls from Athens (1988)
  • Homeric Allotria (1993)
  • Socrates in the supermarket (3rd edition 1997)
  • Internet à la Scipio (2004)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituaries of Klaus Bartels | trauer.nzz.ch. Accessed April 8, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ Hartmut Loos: Pegasus needle for Prof. Dr. Klaus Bartels and Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Happy. In: Forum Classicum. Number 2, 2018, p. 109 ( PDF ).
  3. ↑ Annual report 2017 of the Zurich Central Library , accessed on April 6, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Bartels, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover , Germany
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 2020
Place of death Kilchberg ZH , Switzerland