Peter Allan Hansen

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Peter Allan Hansen (born April 20, 1944 in Copenhagen , † April 18, 2012 in Oxford ) was a Danish-British classical philologist .

life and work

Peter Allan Hansen attended Østre Borgerdyd Gymnasium in Copenhagen and then studied Classical Philology at the university there . From 1965 to 1967 he studied at Brasenose College of the University of Oxford , especially when Epigraphikerin Lilian Hamilton Jeffery . After returning to Copenhagen, he completed his master's degree in 1970 and then worked as a lecturer in epigraphy at the university. In 1975 he returned to Brasenose College on a scholarship and has lived in Oxford ever since. In 1980 he received his doctorate degree there . He continued to finance his scientific work with grants.

Hansen's research focus was initially on the Greek inscriptions and epigrams. He published studies on individual epigrams, lists of the entire inventory and a two-volume edition of the Carmina epigraphica Graeca (1983-1989). Another task then came to the fore: Hansen agreed to continue and complete the edition of the Greek lexicon of Hesychios of Alexandria , which had been lying idle since Kurt Latte's death in 1964. With financial support from the Carlsberg Foundation and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation (from 1988 to 2001), he worked on the remaining two volumes, which he published in 2005 and 2009.

Peter Allan Hansen died on April 18, 2012 in Oxford after a long illness.

Fonts (selection)

  • List of Greek Verse Inscriptions down to 400 BC. An Analytical Survey . Copenhagen 1975 ( Opuscula Graecolatina. Supplementa Musei Tusculani 3). Reprinted 1978
  • Πλουτάρχου Περὶ τῆς Ἡροδότου κακοηθείας / Plutarchi The Herodoti malignitate . Amsterdam 1977
  • Petrus Allanus Hansen: Carmina epigraphica Graeca. Two volumes, Berlin / New York 1983–1989 ( texts and commentaries 12.15)
    • Carmina epigraphica Graeca saeculorum VIII – V a. Chr. N. Berlin 1983 (CEG 1)
    • Carmina epigraphica Graeca saeculi IV a. Chr. N. Berlin 1989 (CEG 2)
  • A List of Greek Verse Inscriptions circa 400-300 BC with Addenda et Corrigenda to CEG (LGVI 2) . Copenhagen 1985 ( Opuscula Graecolatina. Supplementa Musei Tusculani 28)
  • Hesychii Alexandrini Lexicon . Vol. 3: Π – Σ . de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2005 ( Collection of Greek and Latin grammarians 11/3)
  • with Ian C. Cunningham: Hesychii Alexandrini Lexicon . Vol. 4: T-Ω . de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. York 2009 ( Collection of Greek and Latin grammarians 11/4)

literature

  • Adam Bülow-Jacobsen: Peter Allan Hansen . In: Aigis . Volume 12,2 (2012), pp. 1–7 (with list of publications; PDF file )