Martin Korenjak

Martin Korenjak at the Federal Congress of the German Classical Philology Association 2010 in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Martin Korenjak (born September 16, 1971 in Wels , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian classical philologist .

Life

Korenjak attended elementary school and high school in Littau and graduated in 1989 in Bregenz . After completing the compulsory attendance in St. Johann in Tirol , he began studying Classical Philology at the University of Innsbruck in the 1990/1991 winter semester : Latin and Greek for teaching, as an extension course in Linguistics . On September 15, 1994 he passed the diploma examination and went to Heidelberg University , where he received his doctorate on February 10, 1996 under Michael von Albrecht and Glenn W. Most with the dissertation The Ericthoszene in Lukans Pharsalia . From September 1996 to March 1997 he did an internship in Salzburg in the subjects of Greek and Latin.

From 1997 to 2003 Korenjak worked as a university assistant at the Institute for Languages and Literatures at the University of Innsbruck, the former Institute for Classical Philology. In September 1998 he received a research grant from the German Academic Exchange Service . With the font Synergos tou legontos. The role of the audience and his interaction with the speaker in the sophistic rhetoric of the imperial era , he qualified as a professor in 1999. In February 2001, the Hardt Foundation invited him to a two-week research stay on Vandœuvres .

In the summer of 2002 he received offers from the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Bern and decided on the latter position. Since the summer semester 2003 he has been a full professor of classical philology with a focus on Latin studies in Bern. In February 2009 he moved to the University of Innsbruck as Professor of Classical Philology and Neo-Latin .

Awards

2018: Tyrolean State Prize for Science
2019: Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Fonts (selection)

The Ericthoscene in Lukan's Pharsalia: Introduction, Text, Translation, Commentary (= Studies on Classical Philology, 101). Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. 1996, ISBN 978-3-6313-0265-1
Audience and speakers. Their interaction in the sophistic rhetoric of the imperial era (= Zetemata 104). CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-4064-6217-7
Johannes Leucht, Epithalamivm heroicvm: A Latin wedding poem for Archduke Ferdinand II and Anna Caterina Gonzaga . (Series: Commentationes Aenipontanae, XXXIII; Volume: Tirolensia Latina, 3) Universitätsverlag Wagner: Innsbruck 2002, ISBN 978-3-7030-0362-2 .
Ps.-Skymnos, world tour. Introduction, text, translation, commentary . Georg Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2003, ISBN 978-3-4871-1847-5
With Vera Binder and Beate Noack (HGG.): Epitaphs : death, funeral speech, rhetoric. (= Subsidia Classica, 10) Verlag Marie Leidorf: Rahden / Westf. 2007, ISBN 978-3-86757-182-1 .
with Florian Schaffenrath , Lav Subaric, Karlheinz Töchterle (eds.): Tyrolis Latina. History of Latin Literature in Tyrol (2 vols.). Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-2057-8868-3
History of Neo-Latin Literature. From humanism to the present. With 13 illustrations . CH Beck, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-4066-9032-7

Web links

Literature by and about Martin Korenjak in the catalog of the German National Library
Martin Korenjak , website of the University of Innsbruck

Individual evidence

^ Current news from the government meeting: State Prize for Art 2018 / State Prize for Science 2018 ( Memento from September 21, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). Article dated September 18, 2018, accessed September 21, 2018.

personal data
SURNAME	Korenjak, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH	16th September 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wels , Upper Austria

[1] Current news from the government meeting: State Prize for Art 2018 / State Prize for Science 2018 ( Memento from September 21, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). Article dated September 18, 2018, accessed September 21, 2018.