Konrad Heldmann

Konrad Heldmann (born September 30, 1940 in Halle / Saale ) is a German classical philologist . From 1985 to 2005 he was Professor of Classical Philology at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

Life

After graduating from high school at the Friedrichsgymnasium Kassel, Heldmann studied classical philology, history and German at the universities of Marburg , Heidelberg and Freiburg im Breisgau . After graduating in the subjects of Latin, Greek and history, he was in Freiburg in 1972 with a thesis about the tragedies of Seneca doctorate . He then worked from 1972 to 1980 as a research assistant in Freiburg. After his habilitation (1980) he worked as an academic advisor and private lecturer in Freiburg and one semester in Basel .

In 1985 he accepted a professorship for Classical Philology with a focus on Latin Studies from Kiel University . He turned down an offer from the University of Giessen (1988). From 1994 to 1998 he was dean or vice dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Kiel, from 2001 to 2005 editor of the journal Christiana Albertina. Research and reports from the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . In 1998 he was made a full member of the Joachim-Jungius-Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Hamburg, after the founding of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg in 2005 he was appointed senior member. He has been retired since 2005.

Heldmann's research areas are in the area of ​​Roman and Greek literature. His research interests are Roman literary history, ancient rhetoric and literary criticism, ancient historiography, and classical and post-classical Roman poetry. In addition, he deals with the forms of representation of mythological narratives in Ovid and in the visual arts of modern times.

Fonts (selection)

• Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Oedipus. Latin and German. Translated and edited with an epilogue , Stuttgart 1974.
• Investigations into the tragedies of Seneca . Wiesbaden 1974 (Hermes individual fonts 31).
• Ancient theories on the development and decay of the art of speaking , Munich 1982 (Zetemata 77).
• Homer's defeat in the poetry contest with Hesiod , Göttingen 1982 (Hypomnemata 75).
• Sallust on the Roman world domination. A historical model in Catiline and its literary tradition , Stuttgart 1993 (contributions to antiquity 34).
• Poetry or love art? The mythological stories in Ovid's Ars amatoria , Göttingen 2001 (news from the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, philosophical-historical class, year 2001, issue 5).
• Sine ira et studio. The subjectivity principle of Roman historiography and the self-image of ancient historians , Munich 2011 (Zetemata 139).
• Europe and the bull or the robbery of Zeus: The kidnapping of Europe in the depictions of Greek and Roman antiquity , Göttingen 2016.

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , Edition 2003, Volume I, pp. 1231–1232.

Web links

• Literature by Konrad Heldmann in the catalog of the German National Library