Luc Deitz

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Luc Ernest Jean Deitz (* 1961 ) is a Luxembourg classical philologist .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1980 at the Lycée classique de Diekirch , he studied at the Center Universitaire de Luxembourg from 1980 to 1981 . After the acquisition of the Certificat d'Etudes et de Sciences Humaines Littéraires (Greek, Latin , philosophy ) in 1981, he was from 1981 to 1982 Pensionnaire étranger normal at the École supérieure and studied at the University of Paris IV . After the Diplôme d´Etudes Universitaires Générales (Greek and Philosophy; together with the study of Greek and Latin palaeography ) in 1982 he studied from 1982 to 1986 at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen . As a DAAD scholarship holder (1984–1986), he passed the academic examination for teaching at grammar schools (1st state examination in Greek and philosophy) in 1986 .

From 1986 to 1988 Deitz was a research assistant at the University of Konstanz (Faculty of Literature - Latin Studies; Chair Manfred Fuhrmann ) From 1988 to 1990 he represented the assistant position in Konstanz . He conducted research at the Warburg Institute in 1989 as a Frances A. Yates short-term research fellow and from 1990 to 1992 as a Frances A. Yates long-term research fellow . After receiving his doctorate in 1991 from the University of Konstanz as Dr. phil. with summa cum laude in Latin philology with oral theses in the subjects of Middle Latin philology , German studies and philosophy, he was awarded the prize of the city of Constance for the promotion of young scientists at the university . From 1992 to 1995 he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Warburg Institute of the University of London . From 1995 to 1997 he was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the Department of Classical Philology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

Since 1997 Deitz has headed the manuscripts and cimery department of the Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg . First assistant professeur (1999–2003), then (from 2002) professeur associé, he lectured at the Center Universitaire de Luxembourg (Greek and Latin Philology). He has been a member of the editorial board of Neo-Latinisches Jahrbuch since its inception in 1999 . In the summer semester of 2000, he took up the chair (Latin Philology of the Middle Ages) at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . Before founding the Université du Luxembourg, he advocated the creation of a chair in Classical Philology. From 2001 to 2002 he had a teaching position at the University of Trier (Latin Philology). After completing his habilitation in 2002 at the University of Trier on the basis of existing work and the acquisition of the Venia legendi for Latin Philology with special attention to Middle and New Latin , he was a private lecturer in Medieval Latin in Trier from 2002 to 2009 . He was elected to the Discipline Representative for Neo-Latin Literature of the Renaissance Society of America from 2007 to 2009 (re-election (2010–2012)). In 2007 he was elected Membre Correspondant of the Institut Grand-Ducal , Section de linguistique, d'ethnologie et d'onomastique . Since 2009 he has been teaching as an adjunct professor for Latin of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance at the University of Trier. From 2010 to 2017 he taught as Assistant professeur associé for Greek Philology at the Université de Luxembourg . Thomas Falmagne as main performer he is responsible for the series The manuscripts of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg responsible

His main research interests are Platonism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (esp. Francesco Patrizi da Cherso ); Poetics and Rhetoric in the Renaissance (esp.Julius Caesar Scaliger ), and the history of scholarship between 1500 and 1750.

Monographs

  • Julius Caesar Scaliger's Poetices libri septem. Tradition, history of impact and sources, along with a specimen editionis criticae of the first book with an introduction, translation and commentary . Konstanz 1991, OCLC 664728584 (also dissertation, Konstanz 1991).
  • as editor with Gregor Vogt-Spira (for books 5 and 6): Iulius Caesar Scaliger: Poetices libri septem. Seven books on poetry . Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1994–2011, ISBN 3-7728-1501-4 .
  • with Reiner Nolden : Analecta Epternacensia. Contributions to the library history of Echternach Abbey . Bibliothèque Nationale, Luxembourg 2000, ISBN 2-87980-108-7 .
  • Tempus edax rerum. Le bicentenaire de la Bibliothèque Nationale de Luxembourg (1789-1998) . Bibliothèque Nationale, Luxembourg 2001, ISBN 2-87980-061-7 .
  • My life - a game. A portrait of the composer Victor Fenigstein. Fritz Hennenberg and Luc Deitz, Luxembourg, Kairos Edition , 2005.
  • as editor: Georgios Trapezuntios : Rhetoricorum libri quinque (= Europaea memoria. Series 2 texts. Volume 3). Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2006, ISBN 3-487-11573-5 .
  • The Echternach manuscripts up to 1628 in the holdings of the Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg as well as the Archives diocésaines de Luxembourg, the Archives nationales, the Section historique de l'Institut grand-ducal and the Grand Séminaire de Luxembourg, described by Thomas Falmagne with the assistance of Luc Deitz. 2 vols. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009.
  • The Orval manuscripts up to 1628 in the holdings of the Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg and the Grand Séminaire de Luxembourg, described by Thomas Falmagne with the assistance of Luc Deitz. 2 vols. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2017.
  • Neo-Latin and the Humanities. Essays in Honor of Charles E. Fantazzi. Eds. Luc Deitz, Timothy Kircher, and Jonathan Reid (= Center for Renaissance and Reformation Studies. Essays and Studies; vol. 32). Toronto: CRRS Publications, 2014.

Articles (selection)

  • Ioannes Wower of Hamburg, Philologist and Polymath. A Preliminary Sketch of his Life and Works ”, in: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 58 (1995), pp. 132-151
  • 'Aristotle imperator noster ...?' JC Scaliger and Aristotle on Poetic Theory ”, in: International Journal of the Classical Tradition 2 (1995/96), pp. 54-67
  • Space, Light, and Soul in Francesco Patrizi's Nova de universis philosophia (1591), in: A. Grafton and N. Siraisi (eds.), Natural Particulars. Nature and the Disciplines in Renaissance Europe (= Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1999, pp. 139-169
  • Scholastic Logic and Renaissance Poetics. A Few Observations on JC Scaliger's Poetices libri septem (1561) , in: GH Tucker (Ed.), Forms of the 'Medieval' in the 'Renaissance'. A Multidisciplinary Exploration of a Cultural Continuum (= EMF Critiques; vol. 2), Charlottesville, VA: Rookwood Press, 2000, pp. 49-62
  • Gerardus Joannes Vossius' De philologia liber and his concept of 'Philologie' , in: R. Häfner (Hrsg.), Philology and knowledge. Contributions to the concept and problem of early modern 'philology' (= early modern times; vol. 61), Tübingen, Max Niemeyer, 2001, pp. 4–34
  • The Scarith of Scornello. Falsification and method in Curzio Inghiramis Ethruscarum antiquitatum fragmenta (1637) , in: Neulateinisches Jahrbuch 5 (2003), pp. 103-133
  • A Boethius find and its significance. On BnL, Ms. 770 , in: A. Bihrer and E. Stein (eds.), Nova de veteribus. Festschrift for Paul Gerhard Schmidt, Munich, Teubner, 2004, pp. 247–291
  • The Tools of the Trade. A Few Remarks on Editing Renaissance Latin Texts , in: Humanistica Lovaniensia 54 (2005), pp. 345-358
  • Le Pseudocicero d'Henri II. Estienne (1577), ou, Du bon usage de la critique, in: P. Galand-Hallyn u. a. (Ed.), La philologie humaniste et ses représentations dans la théorie et la fiction (= Romanica Gandensia; vol. 32), Genève: Droz, 2005, pp. 545-564
  • Francesco Patrizi da Cherso's Criticism of Aristotle's Logic , in: Vivarium 45 (2007), pp. 113-124
  • Wieland's Lucian , in: C. Ligota and L. Panizza (eds.), Lucian of Samosata Vivus et Redivivus (= Warburg Institute Colloquia; vol. 10), London, The Warburg Institute, 2007, pp. 175-190
  • Magnus animi tui candor, or: How Julius Caesar Scaliger told Geronimo Cardano that he was a fool , in: M. Laureys and R. Simons (eds.), Die Kunst des Streitens. Staging, forms and functions of public controversy from a historical perspective (= Super alta perennis. Studies on the effects of classical antiquity; Vol. 10), Bonn, Bonn University Press, 2010, pp. 127–144
  • 'Il poeta è facitore del mirabile.' Francesco Patrizi da Cherso on the Aim of Poetry , in: T. Nejeschleba and PR Blum (eds.), Francesco Patrizi, Philosopher of the Renaissance, Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2014, 143 - 161

Essayistic (selection)

  • Tradition as a responsibility. On the 70th birthday of Manfred Fuhrmann , in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung No. 143, June 23, 1995, p. 34
  • Don't forget the where from. On the meaning of studying classical languages, in: Forum for Politics, Society and Culture 219 (September 2002), pp. 43–46
  • Amnesia and barbarism. On the situation of the humanities in Luxembourg, in: Forum for Politics, Society and Culture 240 (October 2004), 27 - 29 [1]
  • with Friederike Migneco Le culte des héros anciens est fini aujourd'hui: le métier d'historien: entretien avec le professeur Italy Andrea Giardina in Luxembourgish terms. Die Warte, 66 (2014), n ° 16 = n ° 2438 (May 22), pp. 4–5
  • Othon Scholer (1929-2015). In recognition of a great pedagogue, scientist and humanist , in: Nos Cahiers 36 (2015), pp. 51–61

Web links

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ See u. a. Ioannes Wower of Hamburg, Philologist and Polymath. A Preliminary Sketch of his Life and Works , In: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 58 (1995) , 132-151
personal data
SURNAME Deitz, Luc
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deitz, Luc Ernest Jean (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Luxembourg classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961