List of Classical Philologists at the University of Hamburg

The list of classical philologists at the University of Hamburg includes well-known university professors who worked and are working at the University of Hamburg . This includes all relevant representatives from lecturers to professors.

overview

When the University of Hamburg was founded in the spring of 1919, two full professorships were established for the subject of Classical Philology , the representatives of which were mainly Latinists or Graecists . The first owners, Otto Plasberg and Karl Reinhardt , only worked in Hamburg for a few years. Ernst Kapp (from 1927), who was dismissed for political reasons in 1937 and emigrated, was the long-time holder of the Graecist chair . His position was with the regime-compliant Ulrich Knochenewly occupied, who was removed from office in 1945. Kapp did not get his position back and was only appointed emeritus in his old rights in 1948. Knoche was reinstated as a professor in 1950 and taught in Hamburg until his death (1968).

The chair for Latin studies was held by Bruno Snell from 1931 to 1959 ; after Kapp's departure he devoted himself primarily to Greek studies. During the time of National Socialism, he kept his distance from those in power and made it possible for other dissident lecturers and students to advance professionally. In the last months of the Second World War , Snell pushed ahead with the establishment of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae research center , at which two major projects in Greek basic research were completed in the second half of the 20th century: The Lexicon of the Early Greek Epic (published 1955-2010) and the Hippocrates -Lexicon that produced the Hippocraticus Index (published 1986–1989 and 1999–2006).

In the 1960s and 1970s the number of students at the Institute for Classical Philology increased, so that two additional full professorships were established ( Hans Joachim Mette and Joseph-Hans Kühn ) and several lecturers were appointed professors: Gerda Knebel , Ulrich Fleischer (both 1971 ), Bernd Seidensticker (1980), Widu-Wolfgang Ehlers (1981), Volkmar Schmidt and Klaus Alpers (both 1984) and Wilt Aden Schröder (1985).

The full professorship of Ulrich Knoche (the post for Latin studies) was filled in 1971 by Otto Zwierlein . After he moved to Bonn in 1979, the position remained vacant. Bruno Snell's successors were the Graecists Hartmut Erbse (1960–1965), Winfried Bühler (1967–1991) and Dieter Harlfinger (1990–2005). Harlfinger founded the Teuchos - Center for Manuscript and Text Research , which creates electronic data processing for basic philological research. Since 2007 Harlfinger has been running the center together with his chair successor and student Christian Brockmann .

Hans Joachim Mette's post was filled in 1976 with the Latinist Walther Ludwig , who retired in 1994. In 1999 Dorothee Gall became his successor, who succeeded Zwierleins in Bonn in 2005. Claudia Schindler has held this position since 2009 .

Founder of Byzantine Studies in Hamburg was Stamatis Karatzas , the Byzantine as adjunct professor literature and language teaching. Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies have been represented by a permanent professorship since 1978 , the first holders of which were Athanasios Kambylis (1979–1993) and Hans Eideneier (1994–2002). Ulrich Moennig has been Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Philology since 2004 . The Middle Latin Philology is represented by Klaus Lennartz , the Indo-European Studies, which is also part of the institute, by Johan Corthals (until 2014). Because of its broad-spectrum since the 70s from antiquity (Latin Studies, Greek Studies) extends through the Middle Ages (Medieval Latin, Byzantine) to modern times (New Latin, Modern Greek Studies), the Institute is named Institute for Greek and Latin Philology not, more Classical Philology Seminar .

List of Classical Philologists

The first column shows the name of the person and their life data, the second column shows their entry into the university, and the third column shows their departure. Column four names the highest position achieved at the University of Hamburg. At other universities, the corresponding lecturer may have made an even more extensive scientific career. The next column names special features, the career path or other information relating to the university or the seminar. In the last column there are pictures of the lecturers.

scientist from to Functions Remarks image Otto Plasberg (1869–1924) 1919 1924 Full professor Founding professor for Latin studies, specialist in the philosophical work of Cicero and editor of critical editions Karl Reinhardt (1886–1958) 1919 1923 Full professor Founding professor of Greek studies, Parmenides and Poseidonios researchers; moved to Leipzig, later to Frankfurt am Main Wilhelm Capelle (1871–1961) 1920 1938 Honorary professor Private lecturer, honorary professor in 1926; Translator of various Latin and Greek authors Rudolf Pfeiffer (1889–1979) 1923 1927 Full professor Reinhardt's successor, at that time did particular research on Greek poetry ( Callimachos ); moved to Freiburg, later to Munich Friedrich Klingner (1894–1968) 1925 1930 Full professor Successor to Plasberg, Friedländer student; moved to Leipzig, later to Munich Ernst Kapp (1888–1978) 1927 1937 Full professor Successor to Pfeiffer, specialist in the philosophy of Aristotle ; retired under the Civil Service Act 1937; emigrated to the USA via England; taught from 1955 to 1959 as emeritus in Hamburg Kurt von Fritz (1900–1985) 1931 1933 assistant Specialist in Greek philosophy and historiography; moved to Rostock as an associate professor, where he was dismissed in 1935; went via England to the USA and returned to Germany in 1954 Bruno Snell (1896–1986) 1931 1959 Full professor Successor to Klingner, Graecist; researched Greek epic, philosophy, drama and metrics; Founder of the research center Thesaurus Linguae Graecae , co-founder of the Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences and the Mommsen Society Hans Diller (1905–1977) 1933 1938 assistant Hippocrates researcher; moved to the University of Rostock as an associate professor, and later to Kiel as a full professor Wolf-Hartmut Friedrich (1907–2000) 1938 1948 Private lecturer Lukan Researcher; 1941–1946 military service and imprisonment; moved to Göttingen as a professor in 1948 Friedrich Mehmel (1910–1951) 1938 1940 assistant Epic researcher ( Apollonios of Rhodes , Virgil , Valerius Flaccus ), was called up for military service in 1939; 1945 full professor in Münster Ulrich Knoche (1902–1968) 1939 1968 Full professor Successor to Kapps, member of various Nazi organizations; researched especially the textual criticism of the Latin satirists ( Juvenal ), the Roman concept of fame and Seneca's concept of friendship; 1941–1945 military service, dismissed in 1945, 1947–1950 visiting professor in Cologne; In 1950 he was reinstated as a professor in Hamburg Wolfgang Schmid (1913–1980) 1942 1944 assistant Papyrus and patristic researcher, specialist in Epicurus and Lucretius; Recalled for military service in 1943; then went to Cologne Ernst Siegmann (1915–1981) 1943 1948 assistant Sophocles researcher, pupil of Bruno Snell; moved to Heidelberg in 1948, and in 1960 as full professor in Würzburg Ulrich Fleischer (1910–1978) 1945 1978 professor Associate at the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae; held Latin courses, since 1971 with the title of professor Ernst Zinn (1910–1990) 1946 1951 extraordinary professor then Horace researcher; Privatdozent, 1950 apl. Prof .; moved to Saarbrücken, 1956 to Tübingen Andreas Thierfelder (1903–1986) 1948 1950 Lecturer Associate at Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, specialist in Greek and Roman comedy; moved to Mainz as full professor in 1950 Hartmut Erbse (1915-2004) 1948 1965 Full professor Snell student, habilitation in 1948 and lecturer in Hamburg, 1954 adjunct professor, 1960 full professor (successor to Snell); moved to Tübingen, later to Bonn; Specialist in Greek Epic and Tragedy, Lexicography and Historiography Reinhold Merkelbach (1918-2006) 1950 1957 Private lecturer Novel and mystery researcher, moved to Erlangen as a professor in 1957, and to Cologne in 1961 Hans Joachim Mette (1906–1986) 1950 1974 Full professor 1950 editor of the Hamburg project Lexicon of the Early Greek Epic , habilitated in 1952, associate professor in 1954, full professor in 1964, retired in 1974; researched the Greek epic, tragedy and comedy, the Hellenistic history of science, Roman law and Cicero Wilhelm Ax (1890–1954) 1953 1954 Honorary professor Teaching position for the language of Roman law; Director of the Wilhelm Gymnasium Gerda Knebel (1919–1992) 1954 1984 Professor Associate (since 1952) and editor (1957–1964) of the Lexicon of the Early Greek Epic ; since 1954 lecturer for classical philology, 1963 private lecturer, 1971 professor Eva-Maria Voigt (1921-2013) 1955 1983 Professor Head of the Lexicon of the Early Greek Epic Stamatis Karatzas (1913–1986) 1952 1964 extraordinary professor first qualified representative of Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies; first as lecturer, since 1959 as associate professor; moved to Thessaloniki as a professor and later to Aix-en-Provence Walter Spoerri (1927-2016) 1959 1961 assistant Diodor researcher, habilitation in 1961; moved to Neuchâtel University as an associate professor Gregor Maurach (* 1932) 1961 1967 Private lecturer Assistant to Urich Knoche, habilitation in 1967; Plautus and Seneca researchers; went to the University of Pretoria as a professor of Latin in 1967, and later to Braunschweig and Osnabrück Ernst-Richard Schwinge (* 1934) 1961 1965 assistant Sophocles researcher, assistant to Hartmut Erbse; moved with him in 1965 to Tübingen, later to Kiel Joseph-Hans Kühn (1911–1994) 1962 1975 Full professor Hesiod and Theocrit researcher, holder of the fourth chair in Classical Philology, which was established as an associate professorship in 1962 and promoted to a full professorship in 1970; after Kühn's early retirement the position was canceled Dieter Irmer (* 1935) 1963 2000 Lecturer Collaborator at the Index Hippocraticus , specialist on the Corpus Hippocraticum and the Demosthenes tradition Bernd Seidensticker (* 1939) 1965 1987 professor Tragedy researchers; Assistant, qualified as a professor in 1978, C2 professor in 1980; moved to the Free University of Berlin as a professor Volkmar Schmidt (1933–1998) 1966 1998 professor Assistant, 1970 Scientific Council, 1971 Senior Councilor, 1984 Professor; long-time employee of the Index Hippocraticus Winfried Bühler (1929-2010) 1967 1991 Full professor Successor Erbses, head of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae; 1989 endowed professor, retired in 1991; Specialist in Greek mythology and paremiography Widu-Wolfgang Ehlers (* 1941) 1967 1989 professor Text critic, epic and neo-Latin researcher ; Assistant, habilitation in 1979, professor in 1981, dean of the Department of Philosophy and History from 1985–1987; moved to the Free University of Berlin as a professor Volker Langholf (* 1940) 1968 2005 professor Associate at the Lexicon of the Early Greek Epic , 1989–1999 co-editor of the Index Hippocraticus ; 1984 habilitation, 1999 professor title Klaus Alpers (* 1935) 1971 2000 professor Collaborator at the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (editor at the Index Hippocraticus ), 1971 Scientific Councilor, habilitation in 1977, professor in 1984; Specialist in Greek lexicography and etymological writings of antiquity Günther Steffen Henrich (* 1938) 1971 1994 Editor Lecturer in Modern Greek Language and Literature; moved to the University of Leipzig in 1994 as a professor for Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies Otto Zwierlein (* 1939) 1971 1979 Full professor Successor of Knoches, specialist in Roman tragedy and comedy; moved to Bonn Wilt Aden Schröder (* 1942) 1972 2007 professor Specialist in Roman literature and the history of classical philology; Scientific assistant, qualified as a professor in 1982, professor in 1985 Walther Ludwig (* 1929) 1976 1994 Full professor Successor to Mette, specialist in ancient drama, Augustan poetry ( Horace , Ovid , Prudentius ) and neo-Latin Athanasios Kambylis (* 1928) 1979 1993 Full professor Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Philology Dieter Harlfinger (* 1940) 1990 2005 Full professor Successor to Bühler, founder of the Teuchos Center; Specialist in Greek codicology and philosophy Joachim Dingel (* 1938) 1992 2003 professor Specialist in Seneca and Quintilian Dorothee Gall (* 1953) 1999 2005 Ordinaria Successor to Ludwig, specialist in Latin poetry of the Augustan period and the Renaissance; moved to Bonn Johan Corthals (* 1948) 1981 2014 professor Professor of Indo-European Studies (formerly Comparative Linguistics ), specialist in Old Irish Sibylle Ihm (* 1965) 1992 2002 Private lecturer Medical historian; Lecturer, qualified as a professor in 1999, moved to Leipzig in 2002 and to Göttingen in 2005 Hans Eideneier (* 1937) 1994 2002 Full professor Successor to Kambylis, professor of Byzantine and modern Greek philology Klaus Lennartz (* 1963) 1994 professor 1994–2000 research assistant, 2000–2009 teacher for special tasks , habilitated in 2007, professor since 2009 (§ 17 HmbHG); Specialist in the tragedy of the Roman Republic, Greco-Roman Iambik and Medieval Latin literature Ulrich Moennig (* 1961) 1995 Full professor 1995–2001 research assistant in Hamburg, then visiting professor in Nicosia (Cyprus); since 2004 as successor to Eideneiers professor for Byzantine and Modern Greek Philology Anja Wolkenhauer (* 1967) 2002 2009 Research assistant Specialist in natural science in Latin texts and the reception of Roman literature and culture; Habilitation in 2009; moved to Tübingen as professor for Latin studies (appointed 2010) Christian Brockmann (* 1960) 2007 Full professor Successor to Harlfinger, specialist in Greek comedy, philosophy ( Plato ) and codicology Claudia Schindler (* 1967) 2009 Ordinaria Successor to Galls, specialist in Latin poetry ( didactic poem , panegyric )

Chair holder

First ordinariate:

1. Karl Reinhardt (1919–1923)
2. Rudolf Pfeiffer (1923–1927)
3. Ernst Kapp (1927–1937)
4. Ulrich Knoche (1939–1968)
5. Otto Zwierlein (1971–1979)

Second ordinariate:

1. Otto Plasberg (1919–1924)
2. Friedrich Klingner (1925–1930)
3. Bruno Snell (1931-1959)
4. Hartmut Erbse (1960–1965)
5. Winfried Bühler (1967–1991)
6. Dieter Harlfinger (1990-2005)
7. Christian Brockmann (since 2007)

Third ordinariate:

1. Hans Joachim Mette (1964–1974)
2. Walther Ludwig (1976-1994)
3. Dorothee Gall (1999-2005)
4. Claudia Schindler (since 2009)

Professorship for Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies:

1. Athanasios Kambylis (1979–1993)
2. Hans Eideneier (1994-2002)
3. Ulrich Moennig (since 2004)

literature

• Classical philologists in Hamburg from the 17th to the 20th century . Exhibition in the State and University Library Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky on the occasion of the congress of the German Association of Classical Philologists, Philologica Hamburgensia 2, April 17 to May 12, 1990 , exhibition and catalog: Klaus Alpers, Eva Horváth, Hans Kurig, Bibliothemata 1, Herzberg 1990. ISBN 3-88309-028-X . 124 pp.
• University of Hamburg. 1919-1969 , Hamburg 1969. pp. 231f. 246, 248.
• Klaus Alpers , Eva Horváth, Hans Kurig: Philologica Hamburgensia II. Classical philologists in Hamburg from the 17th to the 20th century. Bautz, Herzberg 1990, ISBN 3-88309-028-X . Second, expanded edition 1996 (unpublished manuscript).
• William A. Beck, Dieter Irmer (Editor): Fifty Years Thesaurus, 1944–1994. From the archives of the Thesaurus , Hamburg 1996.
• Gerhard Lohse: Classical Philology and Current Events. On the history of the seminar at Hamburg University during the National Socialist era . In: Eckart Krause, Ludwig Huber, Holger Fischer (eds.), Everyday university life in the “Third Reich”. The Hamburg University 1933–1945 , Volume 2, Berlin / Hamburg 1991. pp. 775–826.

Web links

• Currently working at the Institute for Greek and Latin Philology