Otta Wenskus
Otta Wenskus (born May 29, 1955 in Marburg ) is a German and, since 1994, Austrian classical philologist .
Otta Wenskus, the daughter of the historian Reinhard Wenskus , studied Classical Philology and Historical-Comparative Linguistics in Göttingen , Florence and Lausanne . In 1982 she received her doctorate in Göttingen with a thesis on the Hippocratic corpus. In 1985/86 she took over a professorship in Caen , and in 1987 she was visiting the Institute for the History of Mathematics at Brown University ( Providence , Rhode Island ).
Wenskus completed his habilitation in Göttingen in 1988 and passed the second state examination in the following year . In the 1990 summer semester, she held a chair at the University of Osnabrück . Then she received a through February 1994 Heisenberg Fellowship , interrupted by a visiting professor at the University of Jena in the summer semester 1992. Since 1994 Wenskus Full Professor of Classics and Archeology at the University of Innsbruck at the Institute of Languages and Literatures.
Her research interests include science and intellectual history, antique technical languages , contact linguistics , gender studies , Latin epistolary literature, antique bilingualism and reception of antiquity in fantasy and science fiction , especially Star Trek .
Fonts (selection)
- Ring composition, anaphoric-recapitulating connection and subsequent repetition in the Hippocratic corpus, Frankfurt 1982 (Diss. Göttingen 1982), ISBN 388-3-2339-00 .
- Astronomical times from Homer to Theophrast. Hermes individual writings 55, Stuttgart 1990 (Habilitation thesis Göttingen 1988), ISBN 351-5-0553-39 .
- Emblematic code change and related stuff in Latin prose. Between proximity language and distance language, Innsbruck 1998, ISBN 978-3-8512-4672-8 .
- Detours into the past: Star Trek and Greco-Roman antiquity, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7065-4661-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Otta Wenskus in the catalog of the German National Library
- Otta Wenskus at the University of Innsbruck
- Exposé of a lecture
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wenskus, Otta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian classical philologist of German origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marburg |