Peter Dronke

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Ernst Peter Michael Dronke (born May 30, 1934 in Cologne ; † April 19, 2020 ) was a British Middle Latin philologist of German origin.

In 1939, while still a child, Dronke emigrated to New Zealand with his family and studied there at the University of Wellington . After the bachelor's and master's degrees, he went on a scholarship to Magdalen College , one of the older colleges of Oxford University , in 1955 . In 1961 he became a lecturer ( " Lecturer ") for Medieval Latin Philology at the University of Cambridge , from 1989 as a full professor and professor in the same subject. In 2001 he retired . Dronke was internationally recognized as one of the most renowned representatives of Middle Latin philology. In 1984 he was accepted into the British Academy . In 2001 an international commemorative publication was published entitled Poetry and Philosophy in the Middle Ages .

Peter Dronke was married to the linguist and literary scholar Ursula Dronke (1920–2012), some of whose publications he also contributed to. He died in April 2020 at the age of 85 after kidney failure .

Fonts

  • Medieval Latin and the Rise of the European Love-Lyric , 2 vol., Clarendon Press , Oxford 1965-1966
  • The Medieval Lyric , Clarendon Press, Oxford 1968
  • Fabula. Explorations into the uses of Myth in Medieval Platonism , Brill , Leiden 1974
  • The Medieval Poet and his World , Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura , Roma 1984
  • Intellectuals and Poets in Medieval Europe , Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma 1992
  • Sources of inspiration. Studies in Literary Transformation 400-1500 , Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma 1997, ISBN 88-900138-3-4
  • Imagination in the Late Pagan and Early Christian World. The First Nine Centuries AD , SISMEL, Firenze 2003, ISBN 88-8450-046-X
  • Forms and Imaginings. From Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century , Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma 2007, ISBN 978-88-8498-371-8
  • The Spell of Calcidius: Platonic Concepts and Images in the Medieval West , SISMEL, Firenze 2008, ISBN 978-88-8450-270-4

literature

  • John Marenbon (Ed.): Poetry and Philosophy in the Middle Ages. A Festschrift for Peter Dronke , Brill, Leiden / Boston 2001, ISBN 90-04-11964-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marina Warner: Peter Dronke obituary , theguardian.com, May 14, 2020, accessed on May 15, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Dronke, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dronke, Ernst Peter Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Middle Latin philologist of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 2020