Manfred Fuhrmann

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Manfred Fuhrmann (born June 23, 1925 in Hiddesen near Detmold ; † January 12, 2005 in Überlingen on Lake Constance ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Fuhrmann's father was the doctor and founder of the Detmold Sanatorium Grotenburg Manfred Fuhrmann (1877–1939), his mother Maria, nee. Plemp van Duiveland came from the Netherlands. Fuhrmann had four siblings, including the pianist, music teacher and scientist Roderich Fuhrmann (1929-2003). After graduating from the High School Leopoldinum in Detmold he studied classical philology , law , philosophy and theology in Freiburg and suffering and was 1953 in Freiburg with a thesis on the religiosity of Horace to Dr. phil. PhD. In 1959 he also completed his habilitation in Freiburg, where he received his first private lectureship that same year. In 1962 he followed a call as a full professor at the University of Kiel and in 1966 another at the newly founded University of Konstanz , where he held the chair of Latin Philology until his retirement in 1990 . From 1964 on he took part in the conferences of the interdisciplinary research group “ Poetics and Hermeneutics ”. In addition, Fuhrmann was a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Heidelberg.

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The Latinist Fuhrmann was considered to be one of the outstanding classical philologists of his generation and worked in various areas of classical antiquity . In addition to his philological studies, he was an accurate translator with great linguistic sensitivity. Between 1970 and 1982 he published translations of all of Marcus Tullius Cicero's speeches in seven volumes, for which he was recognized by classical philologists, historians and Germanists alike. In 1990 he received the Johann Heinrich Voss Prize for Translation from the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt . In 1986 translations of the works of Horace followed .

In addition, Fuhrmann wrote biographies of Cicero ( Cicero and the Roman Republic ) and Senecas ( Seneca and Emperor Nero - A Biography ), which were also widely recognized by classical scholars and ancient historians. Fuhrmann dealt very early on with the Latin literature of late antiquity , which for a long time had received little attention in Germany.

In addition, Wagoner sat in his research intensively with the European idea and the tradition of education and the educational canons as the cultural identity of Europe apart, while also having a non-specialist public through his controversy with the Anglisten Dietrich Schwanitz was known.

In addition, Fuhrmann dealt intensively with the history and practice of classical language teaching and repeatedly took a position in essays and lectures on didactic problems as well as orientations of the didactics of Latin and Greek teaching.

Fonts (selection)

  • The systematic textbook. A contribution to the history of science in antiquity. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1960.
  • Investigations into the text history of the pseudo-Aristotelian Alexander rhetoric (= treatises of the humanities and social sciences class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Born in 1964, No. 7).
  • Antiquity and its intermediaries. Comments on the current situation of classical philology (= Konstanz University Speeches . 9, ISSN  0454-3335 ). Universitäts-Verlag, Konstanz 1969.
  • as editor: Terror und Spiel. Problems of the reception of myths (= poetics and hermeneutics. 4). Fink, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-7705-0446-1 .
  • Introduction to ancient poetry theory. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1973, ISBN 3-534-05469-5 (from the 2nd edition: The poetry theory of antiquity. Aristotle - Horace - "Longin". An introduction. 2nd, revised and modified edition. Ibid. 1992, ISBN 3 -534-05469-5 ).
  • Old languages ​​in crisis? Analysis and Programs. Klett, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-12-922250-2 .
  • The ancient rhetoric. An introduction (= Artemis introductions. 10). Artemis, Munich et al. 1984, ISBN 3-7608-1304-6 (6th, revised edition. Artemis & Winkler, Mannheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-538-07325-8 ).
  • Cicero and the Roman Republic. Eine Biographie Artemis, Munich et al. 1989, ISBN 3-7608-1919-2 (5th, reviewed and bibliographically expanded edition. Artemis & Winkler, Mannheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-538-07324-1 ).
  • Rome in late antiquity. Portrait of an Era. Artemis & Winkler, Zurich et al. 1994, ISBN 3-7608-1088-8 .
  • Foundations of Europe that have become alien. News on topics from antiquity. Artemis & Winkler, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-7608-1122-1 .
  • Seneca and Emperor Nero. A biography. Fest, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-8286-0012-3 .
  • History of Roman Literature. Reclam, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-15-010446-7 .
  • The European educational canon of the bourgeois age. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1999, ISBN 3-458-16978-4 (new edition: The European educational canon. Extended new edition. Ibid 2004, ISBN 3-458-17204-1 ).
  • Latin and Europe. History of learned teaching in Germany. From Charlemagne to Wilhelm II. DuMont, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7701-5605-6 (2nd edition, ibid 2005, ISBN 3-8321-5605-4 ).
  • Education. Europe's cultural identity (= Reclam Universal Library . 18182). Reclam, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-15-018182-8 .
  • Thrown off track. The stations of the Jewish theater man Dr. Hans Kaufmann, Aisthesis-Verlag, Bielefeld, 2003, ISBN 3-89528-407-6 .

literature

  • Nina Mindt: Manfred Fuhrmann as a mediator of antiquity. A contribution to the theory and practice of translation (= Transformations of Antiquity. Volume 5). de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020364-6 (also dissertation, HU Berlin 2007).
  • Andreas Fritsch : Fuhrmann, Manfred. In: Peter Kuhlmann , Helmuth Schneider (Hrsg.): History of the ancient sciences. Biographical Lexicon (= The New Pauly . Supplements. Volume 6). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02033-8 , Sp. 431-433.
  • Obituaries:
    • Detlef Liebs : Manfred Fuhrmann (June 23, 1925 - January 12, 2005). In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. Romance Studies Department 123, Issue 1, 2006, pp. 525-528 (with a list of legally interesting publications).
    • Peter Lebrecht Schmidt : Manfred Fuhrmann †. In: Gnomon 79, No. 8, 2007, pp. 763-767.

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personal data
SURNAME Carter, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Hiddesen near Detmold
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 2005
Place of death Überlingen on Lake Constance