Kurt Sier
Kurt Sier (born April 21, 1955 in Dudweiler ) is a German classical philologist .
Kurt Sier studied Classical Philology, German Philology , Philosophy and Indo-European Philology at the University of Saarland and the University of Zurich from 1974 to 1980 . From 1981 to 1987 he was a research assistant, after completing his doctorate in 1986 he became an academic councilor and senior councilor in 1987 (until 1994). After his habilitation in 1996, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Leipzig in the same year . Since 2000 he has been a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, where he has chaired the Commission for Classical Philology since 2004. Since 2002 he has been a member of the Commission for the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum / Latinorum of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .
Sier deals with ancient philosophy, Greek drama, Hellenistic poetry and ancient literary theory.
Fonts (selection)
- The lyric parts of the Choephores of Aeschylus. Text, translation, comment . Stuttgart 1988 (dissertation)
- The speech of Diotima. Investigations on the Platonic Symposium . Stuttgart / Leipzig 1997 (habilitation thesis)
Web links
- Literature by and about Kurt Sier in the catalog of the German National Library
- Page from Sier at the University of Leipzig
Remarks
First chair (from 1985 Greek studies ): Johann Friedrich Christ (1739–1756) | Johann August Ernesti (1756–1770) | August Wilhelm Ernesti (1770–1801) | Gottfried Hermann (1803–1848) | Reinhold Klotz (1849–1870) | Ludwig Lange (1871–1885) | Kurt Wachsmuth (1886–1905) | Erich Bethe (1906–1931) | Jürgen Werner (1985–1996) | Kurt Sier (since 1996)
Second chair (since 1974 Latin studies ): Friedrich Wolfgang Reiz (1782–1785) | Christian Daniel Beck (1785-1819) | Friedrich August Wilhelm Spohn (1819–1824) | Christian Daniel Beck (1825-1832) | Anton Westermann (1834–1865) | Friedrich Ritschl (1865–1876) | Otto Ribbeck (1877–1898) | Friedrich Marx (1899–1906) | Richard Heinze (1906–1929) | Friedrich Klingner (1930–1947) | Franz Dornseiff (1948–1960) | Walter Hofmann (1974–1990) | Ekkehard Stark (1992-2001) | Marcus Deufert (since 2003)
Third chair: Otto Jahn (1847–1850) | Gregor Wilhelm Nitzsch (1852–1861) | Georg Curtius (1862-1885) | Erwin Rohde (1886)
Fourth chair: Justus Hermann Lipsius (1877–1914) | Bruno Keil (1914–1916) | Alfred Körte (1917–1934) | Wolfgang Schadewaldt (1934–1941) | Karl Reinhardt (1942–1946)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Your, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dudweiler |