Nikolaus Thurn

Nikolaus Thurn (born April 8, 1962 in Hamburg ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

After studying Latin , Greek and Ancient History at the University of Hamburg (1983–1989), he received his master's degree in 1989 and, two years later, a Dr. phil. PhD. As a postdoctoral fellow he worked at the Hamburg graduate school "Greek and Byzantine Textual Transmission, History of Science, Humanism and Neo-Latin". Stays in Pécs (1990–1991) and Florence (1992–1994 and 2001) support his research into the New Latin language . During his employment as a research assistant in the Latin Studies department at the University of Rostock (1995–2001), he received his habilitation in 1999 with his work "Commentary from Carlias von Ugolino Verino" (1998). After a six-month stay in Granada (2001–2002), he took over the position of professor for Latin studies at the University of Kiel in 2002 . In the summer semester 2003 he was given a teaching position for Latin studies at the University of Tübingen and in the winter semester 2003/04 at the University of Kiel. In the same semester he was also employed as a research assistant at the Department of Classical Philology at the Free University of Berlin . For both the 2006/07 and 2009/10 winter semesters, in addition to this position, he received a teaching position at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , where he represented Thomas Haye as Professor of Medieval and Modern Latin Philology.

Publications (selection)

• 1995 Ugolino Verino , Carlias. A 15th century epic first published by Nikolaus Thurn ISBN 3-7705-3033-0
• 2000 David Chyträus , Praecepta rhetoricae inventionis ISBN 3-86009-182-4
• 2002 Commentary by Carlias by Ugolino Verino ISBN 3-7705-3635-5 , (online)
• 2002 Three Neapolitan humanists on love. Antonio Panormita Beccadelli: Hermaphroditus; Ioannes Iovianus Pontanus: De Amore Coniugali; Michael Tarchaniota Marullus: Hymni Naturales. (2019: 2nd revised and updated edition) ISBN 978-3-86757-108-1
• 2008 The birth of the theory from the instrument: on the operation and meaning of the ancient instruments Groma and Lyra ISBN 978-3-7705-4474-5
• 2009 Adnotationes Bartholomaei Fontii in Valerii Flacci Argonautica . Commentary by Valerius Flaccus ISBN 978-3-86757-103-6
• 2012 New Latin and vernacular. Examples of the reception of modern language literature by Latin poetry in Europe in the 15th – 16th centuries. Century ISBN 978-3-7705-5434-8
• 2014 Latin access. 23 Latin poems from 24 centuries translated and discussed. (Itinera Classica: Volume 8) ISBN 978-3-86757-104-3
• 2018 Hebdomas / The Creation. A Latin school song book of the 16th century (Humanist Library of Texts and Treatises II. Texts: Vol. 40) ISBN 978-3-7705-6335-7

Web links

• Literature by and about Nikolaus Thurn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Nikolaus Thurn at the Seminar for Classical Philology at the Free University of Berlin