Markus Stein (Philologist)

Markus Stein (born October 23, 1962 in Rheinbach ) is a German classical philologist ( Latinist ).

Markus Stein studied classical philology at the University of Cologne and was established in 1992 with a thesis on defining and describing in Theophrastus characters doctorate . He then worked from 1992 to 2002 as a research assistant at the University of Cologne. From 1996 to 2001 he was also employed at the Franz Joseph Dölger Institute at the University of Bonn , where he worked on the editing of the Real Lexicon for Antiquity and Christianity (RAC). He achieved his habilitation in the winter semester 1999/2000 at the University of Cologne with the Manichaica Latina . In the following years he worked in different positions: from 2001 to 2002 as a private lecturer at the University of Cologne, from 2002 to 2003 as a deputy professor at the University of Bonn, from 2003 to 2004 again as a private lecturer in Cologne, in the summer semester of 2004 at the University of Hamburg , in the winter semester 2004/2005 as a teacher for special tasks at the University of Göttingen . In the 2005 summer semester he accepted a professorship for Classical Philology (with a focus on Latin Studies ) from Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf , which he has held since then. From 2005 to 2015 he was co-editor of the Göttingen Forum for Classical Studies .

Markus Stein deals with wide areas of ancient Greek and Latin literature, especially late antiquity . One of the fruits of his years of preoccupation with Manichaeism is the edition of the surviving Latin writings of the Manicheans, the Manichaica Latina , which he published in five parts from 1998 to 2016. Stein and the historian Bruno Bleckmann have been leading the edition project Small and Fragmentary Historians of Late Antiquity (KFHist) since 2012 .

Stein has been a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Rhineland Cologne since 1982.

Fonts (selection)

• Definition and description in Theophrast's characters (= contributions to antiquity . Volume 28). Teubner, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-519-07477-X (Zugl .: Köln, Univ., Diss., 1991).
• Manichaica Latina (= Papyrologica Coloniensia. Volume 27.1-4). 4 volumes in 5 parts. Published by the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences in collaboration with the Papyrus Research Center at the Institute for Classical Studies at the University of Cologne. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen / Wiesbaden 1998; Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn a. a. 2002–2016:
  • Volume 1 (1998): Epistula ad Menoch: text, translation, explanations. ISBN 3-531-09946-9 .
  • Volume 2 (2002): Manichaei epistula fundamenti: text, translation, explanations. ISBN 3-506-71481-3 , OCLC 63753688 (Zugl .: Köln, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1999-2000).
  • Volume 3, 1 (2004): Codex Thevestinus: text, translation, explanations. ISBN 3-506-71779-0 .
  • Volume 3, 2 (2006): Codex Thevestinus: Photographs. ISBN 3-506-72982-9 .
  • Volume 4 (2016): Manichaei Thesaurus. ISBN 978-3-506-78699-9 .
• with Bruno Bleckmann: Philostorgios, Kirchengeschichte (= small and fragmentary historians of late antiquity. E [ fragmentary church historians ], volume 7). 2 volumes. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-506-78199-4 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-201601061164 .

literature

• Markus Stein . In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . Founded by Joseph Kürschner . 25th edition. Four volumes. De Gruyter, Berlin [ua] 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-027421-9 , pp. 3940-3941 ( degruyter.com - constantly updated restricted access online edition).

Web links

• Literature by Markus Stein in the catalog of the German National Library
• Markus Stein's CV at the University of Düsseldorf