List of classical philologists at the University of Cologne
The list of Classical Philologists at the University of Cologne lists all relevant representatives of Classical Philology who worked at the University of Cologne , which was newly founded in 1919 .
history
When the University of Cologne was re-established after the First World War , the ancient disciplines of Classical Philology, Ancient History and Classical Archeology were combined in an Institute for Classical Studies. Its first director was the founding professor of classical philology, Josef Kroll (1889–1980). For more than thirty years he also served as director of the Philological Seminary and from 1930–1931 and 1945–1950 rector of the university. Beside him worked from 1925 to 1952 Günther Jachmann (1887–1979) as second professor. Since 1924 there was an assistant position at the Philological Seminary, which Eduard Williger (1899–1932) held until 1932 .
In the 1950s Albrecht Dihle and Hellfried Dahlmann were appointed professors. Both taught until the 1970s and developed strong teaching. In 1961 a third chair for papyrology and epigraphy was set up, first held by Reinhold Merkelbach . He enlarged the Cologne papyrus collection, which had been founded by Josef Kroll in the 1950s. In 1972 he got the Cologne Papyrus Collection included in the funding program of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences .
The Institute for Classical Studies today consists of the three departments of Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies , Classical Philology and Middle Latin Philology. The institute also has two academic workplaces: The Papyrology, Epigraphy and Numismatics Department of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and the Department of the Academy of Sciences and Literature (Mainz), which oversees the “Latin Literature of the Renaissance” project .
List of Classical Philologists
Lecturer | appointment | exit | function | comment | image |
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Josef Kroll (1889–1980) |
1922 | 1956 | Full professor | First professor for Greek studies, director of the philological seminar, rector of the university 1930–31 and 1945–50 | |
Eduard Williger (1899–1932) |
1924 | 1932 | Private lecturer | Pupil of Wilhelm Kroll in Breslau, assistant in Cologne, qualified as a professor in 1927; died by suicide | |
Günther Jachmann (1887–1979) |
1925 | 1952 | Full professor | first professor for Latin studies; Specialist in Old Latin and the history of transmission by various authors | |
Wolf-Hartmut Friedrich (1907–2000) |
1935 | 1938 | Editor | held Latin language courses; moved to Hamburg, later to Göttingen | |
Wolfgang Schmidt (1913–1980) |
1938 1946 |
1939 1950 |
Associate professor | Jachmann student, initially lecturer, after the war assistant and in 1949 associate professor; moved to Bonn | |
Ernst Rupprecht (1910–1941) |
1939 | 1941 | assistant | fell in World War II | |
Ulrich Knoche (1902–1968) |
1947 | 1950 | Visiting professor | Deputy chair for Josef Kroll during his rectorate; Specialist in Roman satire; returned to Hamburg as a full professor | |
Hellfried Dahlmann (1905–1988) |
1932 1953 |
1935 1971 |
Full professor | 1932–1935 assistant; 1953 successor to Jachmann; Varro specialist | |
Albrecht Dihle (1923-2020) |
1958 | 1974 | Full professor | Successor to Kroll, specialist in Greek philosophy, poetry and cultural history; moved to Heidelberg | |
Reinhold Merkelbach (1918-2006) |
1961 | 1983 | Full professor | Professor of papyrology and auxiliary sciences, head of the papyrus collection since 1974 | |
Heinrich Otto Schröder (1906–1987) |
1966 | 1987 | Honorary professor | until 1945 senior assistant in Giessen, 1949 head of the Beethoven grammar school in Bonn | |
Peter Wülfing-von Martitz (1930-2004) |
1967 | 1996 | professor | Private lecturer, adjunct professor in 1970, professor in 1980; Specialist in Greek epic and rhetoric | |
Gerhard Binder (* 1937) |
1968 | 1982 | Scientific advice and professor | Privatdozent, 1970 adjunct professor, 1971 WR a. Prof .; Specialist in the history of culture, influence and religion in antiquity; moved to Bochum | |
Albert Henrichs (1942–2017) |
1969 | 1971 | Private lecturer | Merkelbach student, doctorate in 1966, habilitation in 1969; moved to the University of California, Berkeley, and later to Harvard University | |
Ludwig Koenen (* 1931) |
1969 | 1975 | Scientific advice and professor | Privatdozent, 1971 WR a. Prof .; moved to Ann Arbor University in Michigan | |
Georg Petzl (* 1941) |
1969 | 2007 | Academic director, adjunct professor | Epigraphist, 1983 habilitation, 1989 adjunct professor | |
Helmut van Thiel (1932-2014) |
1969 | 1998 | Extraordinary professor | Privatdozent, 1970 apl. Prof .; Specialist in the history of Greek traditions, especially the Homeric epics | |
Wolfgang Dieter Lebek (* 1938) |
1971 | 2003 | Full professor | Privatdozent, 1971 adjunct professor, 1976–1984 in Los Angeles and Augsburg, then as successor to Merkelbach's professor of papyrology | |
Dieter Hagedorn (* 1936) |
1971 | 1981 | Extraordinary professor | Papyrologist, habilitation in 1971, adjunct professor in 1972; moved to Heidelberg | |
Helmut Engelmann (* 1937) |
1972 | 2003 | Academic senior counselor, adjunct professor | Epigraphist, co-editor of the magazine for papyrology and epigraphy | |
Michael Gronewald (* 1944) |
1972 | 2009 | professor | Private lecturer, 1980 professor; Papyrologist and patristician | |
Clemens Zintzen (* 1930) |
1972 | 2010 | Full professor | Specialist in philosophy and Latin literature from antiquity to the Renaissance; Retired in 1994, taught until the summer semester 2010 | |
Wolfgang Blümel (* 1945) |
1975 | 2011 | extraordinary professor | Specialist in Greek linguistics and epigraphy | |
Rudolf Kassel (1926-2020) |
1975 | 1991 | Full professor | Successor to Dihles, publisher of Poetae Comici Graeci , member of various academies | |
Dietfried Krömer (1938-2006) |
1976 | 1978 | assistant | Kassel student; moved to the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich as a research assistant | |
Hermann Wankel (1928–1997) |
1976 | 1981 | extraordinary professor | Kassel student, private lecturer, apl. Prof .; moved to Münster | |
Peter Frisch (1942–2015) |
1978 | 2007 | extraordinary professor | Merkelbach student; Privatdozent for Classical Philology with special emphasis on papyrology, 1981 adjunct professor, 1986 professor, retired in 2007 | |
Werner Deuse (* 1944) |
1979 | 2010 | extraordinary professor | Specialist in ancient philosophy and church history, at the same time senior teacher in the university service at the University of Siegen | |
Heinz-Günther Nesselrath (* 1957) |
1981 | 1989 | Private lecturer | Kassel student, specialist in Greek literature; Habilitation in 1987; moved to Bern, later to Göttingen | |
Klaus Maresch (* 1951) |
1982 | extraordinary professor | Papyrologist | ||
Stephan Schröder (* 1962) |
1989 | 2001 | Private lecturer | Assistant, later senior assistant, qualified as a professor in 2000; Specialist in Greek poetry (epic, comedy, paian); moved to Erlangen | |
Bernd Manuwald (* 1942) |
1992 | 2008 | Full professor | Successor to Kassel; Specialist in Greek historiography, philosophy and tragedy | |
Markus Stein (* 1962) |
1992 | 2004 | Private lecturer | Specialist in pagan and Christian literature of late antiquity and Manichaeism; moved to Göttingen, later to Düsseldorf | |
Cornelia Römer (* 1953) |
1994 | 2000 | Extraordinary professor | Papyrologist; 1987 custodian of the papyrus collection, 1994 habilitation, 1999 adjunct professor, moved to London | |
Peter Schenk (* 1953) |
1995 | extraordinary professor | Privatdozent, 1999 student advisor in higher education, 2001 associate professor, 2008 director of studies; Specialist in Latin literature from the imperial era and neo-Latin literature | ||
Wolfram Ax (1944-2020) |
1996 | 2010 | Full professor | Successor to Zintzen; Specialist in ancient grammar, rhetoric and philosophy of language | |
Farouk Grewing (* 1968) |
1996 | 2000 | assistant | moved to various universities in the USA as a lecturer; since 2007 professor in Vienna | |
Thomas Gärtner (* 1969) |
2002 | extraordinary professor | Specialist in textual criticism and the history of transmission, Latin epic and Middle Latin poetry; Habilitated in 2002, 2008 associate professor | ||
Jürgen Hammerstaedt (* 1960) |
2004 | Full professor | Successor of Lebek, specialist in the history of philosophy and imperial literature | ||
Markus Schauer (* 1967) |
2008 | 2008 | professor | W2 professor for classical philology; moved to Bamberg | |
Anja Bettenworth (* 1973) |
2010 | Professor | initially deputy chair for Latin studies; since 2011 W2 professor, specialist in ancient epic, Roman elegy and the reception of antiquities in film. | ||
Alfred Breitenbach (* 1972) |
2010 | academic advice | Specialist in pagan and Christian literature from the Roman Empire | ||
René Nünlist (* 1965) |
2010 | Full professor | Successor to Manuwald, specialist in Homeric epics | ||
Jan Felix Gaertner (* 1976) |
2013 | Full professor | Successor to Ax, specialist in Greco-Roman stage poetry and historiography |
literature
- Leo Haupts: The University of Cologne in the transition from National Socialism to the Federal Republic. In it: The Institute for Classical Studies . Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-17806-2 , pp. 183-196
- Erich Meuthen (Ed.): Kölner Universitätsgeschichte, Volume III: The new university: data and facts . Cologne [u. a.]: Böhlau 1988, ISBN 3-412-01688-8 .