Manfred Lossau

Manfred Joachim Lossau (born August 3, 1934 in Königsberg ; † December 27, 2017 in Aachen ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Manfred Lossau grew up in Königsberg and fled with his family to Varel in Friesland towards the end of the Second World War . After graduating from high school, he studied classical philology at the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Saarbrücken . In 1962 he was with the dissertation studies the ancient Demosthenesexegese doctorate . He then worked on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich and from October 1, 1966 as an assistant at the University of Giessen .

In 1973 Lossau went to Trier University as Academic Director , where he completed his habilitation in 1978 and was appointed professor. After his release (1996) he worked until 1999 as a professor of classical philology at the Center Universitaire in Luxembourg.

Lossau dealt with Greek literature from the archaic period to late antiquity . He wrote essays and monographs on Aristotle , Demosthenes and Aeschylus . Another focus of his work was the history of science, especially in connection with Immanuel Kant and the former Albertus University of Königsberg .

After retiring, Lossau also emerged as an author of fictional novels based on topics from antiquity, science (history) and his own biography. Lossau died in 2017 and found his final resting place in the Aachen forest cemetery .

Fonts (selection)

Reference books

• Investigations into the ancient exegesis of Demosthenes . Bad Homburg 1964 (= Palingenesia 2; also dissertation, Saarland University)
• Pros krisin tina politikēn. Studies on Aristotelian rhetoric . Wiesbaden 1981 (also habilitation thesis, University of Trier)
• Greco-Roman and related things. Small writings on ancient literature and later . Kaliningrad / Hildesheim 1991, ISBN 978-3-487-10645-8 .
• Aeschylus . Hildesheim 1998 (= Study Books Antike 1), ISBN 978-3-487-10721-9 .

Fiction

• The sacrifice or the long night of Agamemno . Trier 2002, ISBN 978-3-88081-469-1 .
• ... and they serve science. Stories from professors and other people . Würzburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-8260-2905-9 .
• Immanuel Kant. Novel of a life . Würzburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-8260-2709-3 .
• Light from the east. A journey for survival . Hamburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-86516-496-4 .
• Royal roads buried . Trier 2009.

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 18th edition (2001), p. 1935

Web links

• Literature by Manfred Lossau in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Date and place of death according to a death notice from the family, which was sent to the OTRS team on February 13, 2018 ( ticket: 2018021310010169 ).