Meinolf Vielberg

Meinolf Vielberg (born October 15, 1958 in Hamm ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

After graduating from the humanistic grammar school Hammonense in Hamm in 1978, Vielberg studied Latin , Greek , philosophy and educational sciences at the University of Göttingen from 1980 to 1985 , and from 1983 to 1986 as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . In 1985 he received his doctorate under Carl Joachim Classen and completed the rigorosum in Latin, Greek and philosophy. In 1986/1987 he was visiting scholar with Sir Ronald Syme at Wolfson College in Oxford as part of a DAAD scholarship . He then worked as a temporary academic advisor and research assistant in Göttingen, where he completed his habilitation in 1991. In the 1992 summer semester and 1992/93 winter semester he was a substitute professor at the University of Düsseldorf , and in the 1993 summer semester he was a visiting professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1994 he accepted a professorship for Latin studies at the University of Jena .

In 1996, Vielberg was elected a full member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt . From 1998 to 2001 he was deputy chairman of the German Classical Philology Association . In 2001 he turned down an offer at the University of Mainz . Since 2001 he has been the spokesman for the Graduate School “Leitbilder der Spätantike”. 2003–05 he was director of the Institute for Classical Studies. In 2006 he was the head of the Classical Philology department in the Classical Studies section of the Görres Society .

Publications (selection)

• Duties, values, ideals. An investigation into the values ​​of Tacitus, Stuttgart 1987 (= Hermes individual writings 52)
• Subject Topic. On the representation of the ruling classes in imperial historiography, Munich 1996 (= Zetemata 95)
• Klemens in the pseudo-Cementine recognitions, studies on the literary form of the late antique novel, Berlin, New York 2000 (= texts and studies on the history of early Christian literature 145)
• The monk bishop of Tours in 'Martinellus', On the form of the hagiographic dossier and its late antique model, Berlin, New York 2006 (= studies on ancient literature and history 79)

Web links

• Literature by Meinolf Vielberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Meinolf Vielberg at the Institute for Classical Studies at the University of Jena