Peter Habermehl

Peter Habermehl (* 1955 ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

In 1990 he was at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on Passio et Sanctarum Perpetuae Felicitatis doctorate . He worked at the Center for Basic Research in the Old World of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences under the direction of Christoph Markschies on the edition project The Greek Christian Writers of the First Centuries . He is currently the language lecturer for Latin at the Department of Church History of the Theological Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin .

His work focuses on the novel in antiquity, the Christian literature of late antiquity, and the reception of antiquity in contemporary German-language literature.

Fonts (selection)

• Perpetua and the Egyptians, or Images of Evil in early African Christianity. An attempt at the Passio sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis (= texts and studies on the history of early Christian literature. Volume 140). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-05-001998-0 (also dissertation, Free University Berlin 1990).
  • 2nd revised edition, de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2004, ISBN 3-11-018184-3 .
• as editor with Bernd Seidensticker : Under the constellation of Hercules. Antiquity in contemporary poetry (= Insel-Taschenbuch. Volume 1789). Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1996, ISBN 3-458-33489-0 .
• as editor: Reinhart Herzog . Late antiquity. Studies on Roman and Latin Christian literature (= Hypomnemata . Supplement series, Volume 3). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-525-25270-6 .
• Petronius, Satyrica Vol. 1: Sat. 79-110. A philological-literary commentary (= texts and comments. Volume 27.1). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2006, ISBN 3-11-018533-4 .
• as editor and translator: The Homilies to the Book of Genesis (= Origen: Works with German translation. Volume 1,2). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-020435-3 .
  • 2nd revised edition, de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-022349-1 .
• as editor: Homilies on the Hexateuch in Rufin's translation. Part 1: The homilies to Genesis (Homiliae in Genesin) (= The Greek Christian writers of the first centuries NF 17). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-022350-7 .
• Petronius, Satyrica Vol. 2: Sat. 111-118. A philological-literary commentary (= texts and comments. Volume 27.2). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2020, ISBN 978-3-11-019109-7 .

Web links

• Peter Habermehl on the website of the Free University of Berlin