Paul Klopsch

Paul Klopsch (born January 2, 1920 in Düsseldorf ; † May 6, 2012 in Erlangen ) was a German Middle Latin philologist .

Life

Paul Klopsch studied Classical Philology and Latin Philology of the Middle Ages after the Second World War . In 1955 he was at the University of Cologne with a dissertation The vocabulary Notker Labeos in the field of feeling doctorate . He then worked as a research assistant at the University of Cologne and qualified as a lecturer in Middle Latin Philology in 1964. In the same year he moved to the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg as a representative of the professorship in his subject , where Franz Brunhölzl had been two years earlierfounded the Department of Latin Philology of the Middle Ages. In 1966 Klopsch was first appointed associate professor and then full professor . In the winter semester of 1987/1988, Klopsch retired . His successor was Peter Christian Jacobsen .

Paul Klopsch was a specialist in Middle Latin poetry. He wrote handbooks and basic literature, including the introduction to the Middle Latin verse theory (Darmstadt 1972), the introduction to the poetry of the Latin Middle Ages (Darmstadt 1980) and the Middle Latin poetry (Stuttgart 1983). On the occasion of his retirement, a commemorative publication was published in his honor (Göppingen 1988), edited by Udo Kindermann .

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 20th edition (2005), p. 1740.

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Klopsch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary for Paul Klopsch at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
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