Peter Rau

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Peter Rau (born June 3, 1940 in Itzehoe ) is a German librarian and classical philologist .

Life

Rau studied Classical Philology and Philosophy at the Universities of Hamburg and Kiel from 1960 to 1966 . In 1966 he received his doctorate in Kiel with a thesis on the Greek comedy poet Aristophanes . 1966–1968 he was a research assistant. In 1968 he joined the library service. From 1968 to 2005 he was in the library service, 1975-2005 as director of the library of the Fernuniversität Hagen, the university library center of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Cologne, the university and state library Bonn and most recently as professor and director of the Hamburg state and university library. In addition to and after his library office, he published philological works, especially translations. The most important work is his bilingual editions / translations of all comedies of Greco-Roman antiquity in a total of 14 volumes 2007-2017 in the Edition Antike series of the Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft Darmstadt. In 2013 he received the Academy Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences for the 6-volume edition of Plautus and the 2-volume edition of Terenz .

Philological writings (among others)

  • Paratragodia - investigation of a comical form of Aristophanes . Munich: Beck, 1967 [previously Diss. Kiel 1966].
  • Plautus: Miles Gloriosus, The Glorious Captain . Lat. u. German, transl. u. ed. by Peter Rau. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1984 [u. ö.]
  • WM Thackeray: Die Rose und der Ring [The Rose and the Ring], Aus d. Engl. Transl. by Peter Rau, follow-up by B. Scheller. Leipzig: Dieterich 1990.
  • P. Rau: Communicative and aesthetic functions of the ancient book . In: Medienwissenschaft, Handbuch d. Media u. Communication Science, ed. by J.-F. Leonhard et al., Part 1, Berlin, New York 1999, pp. 526-538.
  • Plautus: comedies . Lat. u. German, ed., trans. u. come over. by Peter Rau, Vol. 1–6. Darmstadt: Wiss. Book Society, 2007–2009.
  • Terence: Comedies . Lat. u. German, ed., trans. u. come over. by Peter Rau, Vol. 1–2. Darmstadt: Wiss. Book Society, 2012.
  • Menander: Comedies . Greek u. German, ed., trans. u. come over. by Peter Rau, Vol. 1–2. Darmstadt: Wiss. Buchgesellsch., 2013–2014.
  • Aristophanes: Comedies . Greek u. German, ed., trans. u. come over. by Peter Rau, Vol. 1–4. Darmstadt: Wiss. Book Society, 2016–2017.

proof

  • Yearbook of the German Libraries, Vol. 60, 2003/2004.
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2017.

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