Michael Hillgruber

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Michael Hillgruber (born January 8, 1961 in Darmstadt ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

Michael Hillgruber, the son of the historian Andreas Hillgruber , studied classical philology at the University of Cologne , where he received his doctorate in 1986 under Rudolf Kassel with an annotated text edition of Lysias' tenth speech . He completed his habilitation in 1993 at the University of Bern with the thesis The pseudoplutarchic font De Homero . In 1995 he was appointed professor of classical philology (focus on Greek studies) at the University of Halle .

Hillgruber's research is particularly focused on Greek literature. In 1997 he published the small writings of his Halle predecessor Joachim Ebert under the title Agonismata . In addition, he created an annotated edition of My Teachers: Memories by Otto Kern (Hildesheim 2008).

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