Ludwig Alfred Moritz

Ludwig Alfred Moritz (born May 11, 1921 in Munich ; † January 7, 2003 ) was a British classical philologist of German origin.

Ludwig Alfred Moritz was born in Munich and emigrated to Great Britain during the National Socialist era . He studied Classical Philology at Oxford and received his doctorate in 1950 . He then worked as a lecturer in Classical Philology at Bedford College in London. In 1953 he moved to Cardiff University . After a year as a visiting professor at the University of Ghana (1959/1960), he was appointed Professor of Classics in Cardiff in 1960 . He gave his inaugural lecture in 1962 on the subject of Humanitas . In 1971 Moritz was appointed director of the Department of Classics . In 1987 he retired.

Moritz was a specialist in ancient grain and flour production as well as in the baking trade. He wrote several articles in this field, the monograph Grain-mills and Flour in Classical Antiquity and numerous articles in the lexicon Der Kleine Pauly . He was a member of the Classical Association , of which he was treasurer from 1963 to 1972. He was married to Doris (née Rath).

Publications

• Grain-mills and Flour in Classical Antiquity , Oxford University Press 1958 (revised version of dissertation from 1953. Reprints New York 1979. Oxford 2002)

literature

• The Jewish Year Book , 2000 edition, p. 275.
• Jewish Chronicle of February 28, 2003