Paul Dräger

Paul Dräger (Source: fotoVeit.de)

Paul Dräger (born December 20, 1942 in Amt Neuhaus ) is a German classical philologist , translator and historian of science .

Life

Paul Dräger studied Classical Philology, History, Slavic and Indo-European Studies from 1963 to 1968 at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . After the two state examinations (1968/1969) he worked as a grammar school teacher (1968–2000) and as a lecturer for classical philology at the University of Trier (1981–1989, 1994–1997).

In 1990, Dräger received his doctorate from the University of Trier with the dissertation Argo pasimelousa: The Argonaut myth in Greek and Roman literature . In the 2001/02 winter semester he presented The Argonautica of Apollonios Rhodios: The Second Anger Epos of Greek Literature (Munich 2001) as a habilitation thesis in Faculty II of the University of Trier .

Since his retirement (2000) he has worked as a freelance author, translator, reviewer, editor (Reclam, Patmos) and science historian. In 2007/2008 he was a lecturer in ancient history at Saarland University , and from 2008 to 2010 freelance for the daily newspaper Trierischer Volksfreund .

His research interests include the Greek and Roman epic poetry, ancient mythology, archaic Greek poetry (especially Pindar ), Hellenistic ( Apollonios of Rhodes ), Augustan ( Virgil ), Flavian ( Valerius Flaccus ) and late ancient poetry ( Ausonius ) as well as Middle Latin literature ( Saints - Viten ). In terms of the history of science, Dräger is particularly concerned with the researchers Theodor Mommsen and Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff .

Fonts (selection)

• Argo pasimelousa. The Argonaut myth in Greek and Roman literature. Part I: Theos Aitios , Stuttgart 1993. ISBN 3-515-05974-1
• Stylistic studies on Pherecydes of Athens. A contribution to the oldest Ionic prose , Stuttgart 1995. ISBN 3-515-06676-4
• Investigations into Hesiod's catalogs of women . Stuttgart 1997. ISBN 3-515-07028-1
• Ausonius Mosella. Latin / German (blank verse) / commentary . Trier 2001. ISBN 3-87760-167-7
• The Argonautica of Apollonios Rhodios: The Second Epic of Wrath in Greek Literature . Munich 2001. ISBN 3-598-77707-8
• D. Magnus Ausonius. Mosella. Bissula . Correspondence with Paulinus Nolanus. Latin / German (prose) / commentary . Düsseldorf 2002. ISBN 3-7608-1729-7
• Apollonios of Rhodes. The voyage of the Argonauts. Greek / German / Commentary . Stuttgart 2002. ISBN 3-15-018231-X . Revised and bibliographically amended edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-15-018231-4
• D. Magnus Ausonius. Mosella. Latin / German (prose) / commentary . Düsseldorf, Zurich 2004. ISBN 3-7608-1380-1
• C. Valerius Flaccus. Argonautica / The mission of the Argonauts. Latin / German / Commentary , Frankfurt am Main 2003. Reprints 2008, 2014. ISBN 3-631-50799-2
• History of the origins and youth of Constantine the Great and his mother Helena. Latin / German / Commentary . Trier 2005 ISBN 3-89890-080-0 . 2nd, expanded edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-89890-152-9
• Apollodor. Libraries. Legends of gods and heroes. Greek / German / Commentary , Düsseldorf 2005. ISBN 3-7608-1741-6
• Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff: Homer's Iliad (lecture WS 1887/1888 Göttingen). Edited and commented , Hildesheim 2006. ISBN 3-487-13136-6 . 2nd, expanded edition 2008. ISBN 978-3-487-13619-6
• Eusebios. About the life of the blissful Emperor Constantine. Greek / German / Commentary . Oberhaid 2007. ISBN 978-3-938083-04-8 . 2nd revised edition 2007. ISBN 978-3-938083-06-2
• Almann von Hautvillers: biography or rather sermon of St. Helena. Latin / German / Commentary , Trier 2007. ISBN 978-3-89890-113-0
• Alcuin. The life of St. Willibrord. Latin / German / Commentary . Trier 2008. ISBN 978-3-89890-127-7
• Gallus et vulpes - cock and vixen. An allegorical animal poem from the 11th century from the Meuse-Moselle region / Lorraine. Edited, translated and commented on. In: Kurtrierisches Jahrbuch . Volume 49 (2009), pp. 149-192.
• Winrich von Trier: Conflictus ovis et lini / The dispute between sheep and flax. Latin / German . Trier 2010. ISBN 978-3-89890-145-1
• Lament of the Magister Paulinus (Querela magistri Paulini) [11th century]. Edited, translated and commented on . In: Kurtrierisches Jahrbuch . Volume 50 (2010), pp. 65-148.
• Euripides, Medea, translated into iambs and explained . Stuttgart 2011. ISBN 978-3-15-018768-5
• D. Magnus Ausonius. Complete Works, Vol. 2: Trier Works , Trier ( Kliomedia ) 2011. ISBN 978-3-89890-158-1 . Second, expanded and revised edition. Trier 2016. ISBN 978-3-89890-207-6
• Vita Gangolfi, Das Leben Gangolfs, edited, translated and commented , Trier 2011. ISBN 978-3-89890-166-6
• Sophocles, Philoctetes (with the 52nd speech of Dion Chrysostom), translated and explained in iambi , Stuttgart 2012. ISBN 978-3-15-018973-3
• Euripides, Iphigenie bei den Taurern , translated into iambs and explained , Stuttgart 2012. ISBN 978-3-15-018911-5
• D. Magnus Ausonius. Complete works, Vol. 1: (Auto) biographical writings , Trier ( Kliomedia ) 2012. ISBN 978-3-89890-176-5 .
• Euripides, Iphigenia with the Taurians. Greek / German . Stuttgart 2014, ( Reclams Universalbibliothek 19264), ISBN 978-3-15-019264-1 .
• D. Magnus Ausonius. Complete Works, Vol. 3: Late Works from Bordeaux . Edited, translated and commented, Trier ( Kliomedia ) 2015. ISBN 978-3-89890-193-2 .
• Trier becomes Christian: the life of the holy Eucharius, Valerius, Maternus ( Vita sanctorum Eucharii, Valerii, Materni ). Edited, translated for the first time and commented on. In: Kurtrierisches Jahrbuch 56 (2016), pp. 11–58.
• Gesta Treverorum. From initiis usque ad MCXXXII annum. History of the Treverians. From the beginning to the year 1132. Latin / German. Edited, fully translated and annotated for the first time. Trier (Kliomedia) 2017 (Publications from the Trier City Archives, Vol. 2) ISBN 978-3-89890-210-6 .
• Thiofrid von Echternach, Two Sermons. Latin / German. Edited, translated for the first time and commented on. Trier (Publishing House for Culture and History) 2018 (publications from the Trier City Archives, Vol. 3) ISBN 978-3-945768-03-7

Web links

• Personal website
• Literature by and about Paul Dräger in the catalog of the German National Library