Margarethe Billerbeck

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Margarethe Billerbeck (born December 13, 1945 in Basel ) is a Swiss classical philologist .

After studying first at the University of Basel and then at the Free University of Berlin , where she received her doctorate in 1974 (commentary, translation and critical edition of the work Vom Kynismus des Epiktet ), Billerbeck worked as a research assistant at the Free University. In 1981, she was in Oxford for D.Phil. PhD. Since 1978 she worked as a senior research assistant at the University of Friborg , where she was appointed full professor in 1987.

Since 1994 she has been a member of the Academia Latinitati Fovendae in Rome, since 2000 a member of the Academia Europaea . In 2001 she held a Summer Fellowship in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks . From 2003 to 2005 she was President of the Fondation Hardt pour l'étude de l'antiquité classique . In 2005/06 she was at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In 2014 she received an honorary doctorate in philosophy from the Université de Neuchâtel . In 2016 she retired .

Billerbeck deals with the Greek and Roman literature of the imperial era as well as with the reception of the education and philosophy of antiquity. Her works include an annotated bilingual edition of the Ethnica des Stephanos von Byzantium , which she published in five volumes from 2006 to 2017 in collaboration with other researchers.

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2009 . 22nd edition. tape 1 . Saur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23629-7 , pp. 312 .
  • Thomas Schmidt and Arlette Neumann-Hartmann as editors: Munera Friburgensia. Festschrift in honor of Margarethe Billerbeck . Peter Lang, Bern / Berlin / Brussels / Frankfurt am Main / New York / Oxford / Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-0343-1443-5 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Epictetus: From Kynismus (= Philosophia Antiqua. 34). Edited and translated with a comment by Margarethe Billerbeck. Brill, Leiden 1978, ISBN 90-04-05770-6 .
  • The cynic Demetrius. A contribution to the history of early imperial popular philosophy (= Philosophia Antiqua. 36). Brill, Leiden 1979, ISBN 90-04-06032-4 .
  • Seneca's tragedies. Linguistic and stylistic studies (= Mnemosyne . Supplement. 105). Brill, Leiden u. a. 1988, ISBN 90-04-08631-5 .
  • Seneca: Hercules furens. Introduction, text, translation and commentary (= Mnemosyne. Supplement. 187). Brill, Leiden u. a. 1999, ISBN 90-04-11245-6 .
  • with Christian Zubler: The praise of the fly from Lukian to LB Alberti. Genre history , texts, translations and commentary (= Sapheneia. 5). Lang, Bern a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-906765-24-5 .
  • with Sophie Guex: Sénèque, Hercule furieux. Introduction, texte, traduction et commentaire (= Sapheneia. 7). Lang, Bern a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-906768-18-X .
  • Stephani Byzantii Ethnica (= Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae . 43, 1-5). Recensuit Germanice vertit adnotationibus indicibusque instruxit Margarethe Billerbeck. 5 volumes. de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2006-2017.
  • with Bruce Karl Braswell : The Grammarian Epaphroditus. Testimonia and Fragments. Edited and translated with Introduction, Notes, and Commentary (= Sapheneia. 13). Lang, Bern et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-03-911450-4 .
  • with Mario Somazzi: Repertory of the conjectures in the Seneca tragedies (= Mnemosyne. Supplement. 316). Brill, Leiden et al. 2009, ISBN 978-90-04-17734-5 .
Editing
  • The Cynics in Modern Research. Essays with an introduction and bibliography (= Bochum Studies on Philosophy. 15). Grüner, Amsterdam 1991, ISBN 90-6032-316-5 .
  • with Jacques Schamp: Kainotomia. The renewal of the Greek tradition. Universitätsverlag, Freiburg (Switzerland) 1996, ISBN 3-7278-1090-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Dies academicus: University of Neuchâtel recognizes Federal President Burkhalter with an honorary doctorate . November 1, 2014. Accessed May 12, 2015.