Klaus Thraede

Klaus Thraede (born March 6, 1930 in Lüneburg ; † January 25, 2013 in Bonn ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Klaus Thraede attended the Johanneum High School in Lüneburg from 1940 to 1949 . In addition to his Abitur, he completed an apprenticeship as a church musician from 1947 to 1949, which he completed with a church musician examination (C examination). He then completed an internship as an organist and went to the University of Göttingen , where he studied classical philology, Protestant theology and sociology . He spent the summer semester 1952 in Innsbruck , the winter semester 1952/1953 in Zurich and Basel (with Karl Barth ). He passed the state examination in philology in 1955 in Göttingen, followed by the first theological examination in 1956 at the Evangelical Church in Hanover. Parallel to his legal clerkship, he did his doctorate in classical philology with Albrecht Dihle in Göttingen , which he achieved in 1958 with the dissertation Contributions to Dating Commodians .

From autumn 1958 to spring 1960 Thraede worked as a study assistant at the Johanneum grammar school and at the Wilhelm Raabe school in Lüneburg. On April 1, 1960, he went to the Franz Joseph Dölger Institute in Bonn as a research assistant . In addition, he gave courses at the University of Cologne ; He submitted his research in 1962 under the title Studies on the Language and Style of Prudentius as a habilitation thesis (printed 1965, Hypomnemata 13). The combination of theological and philological content in his research brought him to an additional doctorate in Protestant theology. His dissertation Unity, Present, Conversation: On the Christianization of ancient letter topos he wrote from 1964 to 1966. It was printed in 1967 in Bonn.

On May 11, 1968, Thraede accepted the call of the newly founded University of Regensburg to the chair of Latin Studies , which he held until his retirement on March 31, 1998 at the age of 68. His long-standing colleague was the Graecist Ernst Heitsch , who had studied together with Thraede in Göttingen. From autumn 1999 Thraede lived in Bonn, where he worked as a visiting scholar at the Department of Ancient Church History and Patrology.

Thraede is the author of numerous monographs and essays on Christian Latin literature. He was co-editor of the yearbook for antiquity and Christianity (since 1968) and the real dictionary for antiquity and Christianity (since 1984).

Fonts (selection)

• Contributions to the dating of Commodians , Göttingen 1957
• Studies on the language and style of Prudentius , Göttingen 1965
• Unity, present, conversation: On the Christianization of ancient letter topos , Bonn 1967
• Basics of Greco-Roman letter topics , Munich 1970
• The hexameter in Rome: theory and statistics , Munich 1978

literature

• Manfred Wacht (Ed.): Panchaia: Festschrift for Klaus Thraede , Münster 1995

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Thraede in the catalog of the German National Library
• opac.regesta-imperii.de