Marcus Deufert

Marcus Deufert (born June 21, 1970 in Würzburg ) is a German classical philologist .

After studying classical philology and modern German literature at the universities of Würzburg , Cologne , Bonn and Cambridge from 1989 to 1995, he was awarded a doctorate in 1995 in Bonn. phil. PhD. In the foreword to his dissertation, he especially thanks his academic teachers Siegmar Döpp and Otto Zwierlein . From 1995 to 2001 Deufert worked as a research assistant or assistant at the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Göttingen , where he completed his habilitation in 2001.

From October 2001 to September 2002 he was a fellow at King's College London . Since October 2002 he has been teaching at the University of Leipzig with a focus on Latin studies , whose chair he has held since November 2003.

Deufert's research focuses on the history of transmission and textual criticism, mainly of Latin literature, the history of classical philology, the new comedy and early Latin poetry, ancient poet biographies and their literary reception, and Lucretius .

He has been the editor of the philological journal Hermes since 2013 . In 2014 he was elected to the Academia Europaea .

Fonts (selection)

• Pseudo-Lucretian in Lucretius. The spurious verses in Lucretian “De rerum natura” . Berlin / New York 1996 (= studies on ancient literature and history 48; also dissertation), ISBN 978-3-11-015046-9 .
• Text history and reception of the Plautinian comedies in antiquity . Berlin / New York 2002 (= studies on ancient literature and history 62; also habilitation thesis), ISBN 978-3-11-017336-9 .
• A misunderstood biography of Terence from late antiquity. Investigations on the Vita Ambrosiana . Goettingen 2003.
• Prolegomena to the Editio Teubneriana of Lucretius . Berlin / Boston 2017 (= studies on ancient literature and history 124), ISBN 978-3-11-054998-0 .
• Critical commentary on Lucretius' De rerum natura . Berlin / Boston 2018 (= texts and comments 56), ISBN 978-3-11-047903-4 .
• Titus Lucretius Carus, De rerum natura. Edited by M. Deufert. Berlin / Boston 2019 (= Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana ), ISBN 978-3-11-095951-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Marcus Deufert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Marcus Deufert at the Institute for Classical Philology and Comparative Literature at the University of Leipzig