Oleg Dmitrievich Nikitinsky

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Oleg Dmitrijewitsch Nikitinski ( Russian Олег Дмитриевич Никитинский ; born September 14, 1967 in Moscow ; † June 6, 2015 ) was a Russian classical and neo-Latin philologist.

life and work

Nikitinsky first studied chemistry, mathematics and physics at the Moscow Technical University from 1984 to 1986 "MISiS" (Национальный исследовательский технологический университет "МИСиСтерситет" from 1986 to 1991 to the University of Moscow from Lomonosology . After passing the state examination there, he received a scholarship from 1991 to 1995 at the Graduate College “Reference to the Past in Ancient Presents” at the University of Freiburg and received his doctorate from Wolfgang Kullmann with studies on the reference to the past under Kallimachos . In 1997 a second doctorate took place in Moscow. From 1995 to 1998 he also worked there as a lecturer in Roman literature. From 1998 to 1999 he was able to stay at the University of Munich with a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation , from 1999 to 2000 as a visiting professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin , and from 2000 to 2001 at the Thesaurus linguae Latinae in Munich. From 2001 to 2003 he received a grant from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation . From 2003 to 2008 he received a Heisenberg scholarship for the project Latin as a European universal language in the 17th and 18th centuries. From 2008 to 2010 he was a research assistant for neo-Latin at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and from 2010 to 2015 at the seminar for Latin Philology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster .

Research focus

After a dissertation on the Hellenistic poet Callimachos and a Latin commentary on the satires of Aulus Persius , Nikitinsky turned to Latin prose of the 17th and 18th centuries and published his fundamental work De eloquentia latina saec. XVII et XVIII dialogus as well as two speeches by the German-Dutch philologist David Ruhnken and others. In addition to the published work, a dictionary on Latin language maintenance was published posthumously. In 2012 he presented a history of the city ​​of Münster in Latin. Oleg Nikitinski was one of the leading neolatinists worldwide, who made a decisive contribution to the development of the subject of neo-Latin .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Callimachus Studies. Peter Lang, 1996, (Studies on Classical Philology, Volume 98; = Diss. Freiburg).
  • De eloquentia latina saec. XVII et XVIII dialogus. Vivarium, Naples 2000.
  • Sergius, siue de eloquentia grammaticorum saec. XVII et XVIII libri duo. Vivarium, Naples 2000.
  • Davidis Runhkenii oratio De doctore umbratico. Edidit Helgus Nikitinski. Vivarium, Naples 2001.
  • A. Persii Flacci saturae. Commentario atque indice rerum notabilium instruxit Helgus Nikitinski. Accedunt varia de Persio iudicia saec. XIV-XX. KG Saur, Munich, Leipzig 2002, (excerpts online) .
  • Dauid Ruhnkenius. Elogium Tiberii Hemsterhusii. Edidit Helgus Nikitinski. KG Saur, Munich, Leipzig 2006. - Review by David Butterfield, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.05.34
  • De laudibus Monasterii Westphaliae metropolis. Ed. La scuola di Pitagora, Naples 2012, ISBN 978-88-6542-115-4 .
  • Josef Delz , Eduard Fraenkel . Correspondence 1947–1969. A scholarly friendship . Edited by Georg Schwarz, Oleg Nikitinski. SYMPOSION eleutheron, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-928411-81-3 .
  • Model Latin prose and language cultivation of the modern age (17th - early 19th century). A dictionary. Brill, Leiden 2017 (published posthumously).

items

  • To the origin of the saying nulla dies sine linea. In: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 142, 1999, 430–431, (online) .
  • The (oral) role of mail carriers in Cicero. In: Lore Benz (Ed.), ScriptOralia Romana. Roman literature between orality and written form. Gunter Narr, 2001, pp. 231–250 (excerpts online)
  • Ovid more philosophical than Aristotle? Literary and philosophical method with Pierre-Daniel Huet. In: Bernhard Huss, Patrizia Marzillo, Thomas Ricklin (eds.), Para / Textual Negotiations between Poetry and Philosophy in the Early Modern Age. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, 279–292, (online)

literature

  • Academiae Moscoviensis Elisabetanae Lomonosovianae Schola Grammaticorum (Ed.): De utriusque linguae grammatica et quatenus illa cum omnium gentium litteris artibusque coniuncta sit. Conuentus IX a. MMXVI: De linguae Latinae aetate recenti studiis . Acroases in memoriam Helgi Nikitinski Moscuensis. Moscoviae 2016, ( online ) PDF. (Latin commemorative script). There complete list of publications by Elias Charitonius, Ss. 141-144.
  • TF Bórri: Helgus Nikitinskij: verbī artifex, vir, amīcus . A commemorative speech in Latin (Moscow, 2016).
  • Theodericus Sacré : De Helgi Nikitinski laudibus. In: Latin sample prose and language maintenance of the modern age (17th - beginning of the 19th century). A dictionary. Brill, Leiden 2017 (published posthumously), pp. XIII-XIX (in Latin).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The source of this article is the obituary and obituary from the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.
personal data
SURNAME Nikitinsky, Oleg Dmitrievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nikitinsky, Oleg Dmitrievich (full name); Никитинский, Олег Дмитриевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian classical and neo-Latin philologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 2015