Martin Vöhler

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Martin Vöhler (born June 2, 1959 in Berlin ) is a German literary scholar .

Life

Vöhler studied German , classical philology and religious studies in Berlin and Thessaloniki . He then worked as a research assistant in German studies at the Free University of Berlin . In 1995 he received his doctorate and took part in Heidelberg research program at Leibniz "afterlife of ancient Greek and Latin literature and history of classical philology" of the German Research Foundation . At the same time he worked on the "Archive for Antiques" in Berlin. In 2003 he completed his habilitation with his thesis “ Pindar Receptions from Erasmus to Herder ”. He was a research assistant at the Collaborative Research Center “Aesthetic Experience in the Sign of the Dissolution of Limits in the Arts” (SFB 626) in Berlin. In 2006, Vöhler was a brief visiting professor at Ain-Schams-University in Cairo . From 2011 to 2015 he was assistant professor for German and comparative literature at the University of Cyprus. Since 2015 he has been Professor of Greek Studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki .

Research priorities

Vöhler deals with the reception of ancient literature in modern German literature, with ancient rhetoric and poetics and with the literature of the 18th and 19th centuries.

He is currently working on catharsis and aesthetic experience, mimesis concepts and humanism and humanity in the 18th century.

Publications (selection)

  • I would like to thank you, but for what? On the tradition and composition of Hölderlin's hymn. Fink, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7705-3201-5 (dissertation, FU Berlin, 1995).
  • (Translation) Glenn W. Most : Heidegger's Greeks. In: Mercury . Vol. 56, Issue 2, February 2002, pp. 113-123
  • Pindar receptions. Six studies on the change in the understanding of Pindar from Erasmus to Herder. Winter, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-8253-5148-3 (habilitation thesis, FU Berlin, 2003).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar . 22nd edition (2009). Vol. 4, p. 4380.
personal data
SURNAME Vöhler, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin