Peter Stotz

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Peter Stotz (born June 28, 1942 in Bern ; † July 4, 2020 in Bülach ) was a Swiss Middle Latin philologist . From 1993 until his retirement in 2007, he held the chair for Medieval Latin Philology and Historical Auxiliary Sciences with special emphasis on palaeography and diplomacy at the University of Zurich . His main work is the five-volume manual on the history of the Latin language of the Middle Ages .

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Peter Stotz grew up in the Zurich region. He attended the cantonal literary school in Zurich. The Matura with Latin and Greek followed in 1961. He studied general history, Middle Latin philology, and historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Zurich. The licentiate took place in 1967. With Hans F. Haefele he became in 1971 with the work Ardua spes mundi. PhD studies on Latin poems from Sankt Gallen . His aim was to "ask exactly what is said in the poems, what is meant behind it, to which particular situation it may be said and what the sources are". From 1970 to 1972 he worked on the Middle Latin dictionary at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich. From 1972 to 1980 he worked as an assistant at the Middle Latin Department of the University of Zurich.

Stotz worked at the University of Zurich from 1977 until his retirement in 2007. From 1972 to 1980 he was an assistant at the Middle Latin Seminary. In 1977 he received his habilitation in Middle Latin Philology at the University of Zurich with the thesis Special Forms of Sapphic Poetry. A contribution to the study of the Sapphic poetry of the Latin Middle Ages . From 1980 to 1983 he was senior assistant at the Institute for Swiss Reformation History at the University of Zurich. There he worked on the critical edition of Zwingli's works and edited the educational theoretical treatise Ratio studiorum by Heinrich Bullinger . In the meantime he held lectureships (visiting professor) at the University of Friborg in Switzerland in 1977/78 and then from 1981 to 1988 . In 1988/89 Stotz was a substitute professor at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . In Zurich he taught initially as a private lecturer, from 1986 as adjunct professor and from 1993 as successor to Hans F. Haefele, initially as associate professor and from 2000 as full professor of Latin philology of the Middle Ages and historical auxiliary sciences with special emphasis on palaeography and diplomacy. He retired on August 31, 2007.

From 1984 to 1992 Stotz worked on a project financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation for a manual on the Latin language of the Middle Ages. The work was published in five volumes between 1996 and 2004 as part of the Handbook of Classical Studies . In 2004 he was awarded the Ausonius Prize of the University of Trier . Stotz had been a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and a member of the central management of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica since 2003 . From volume 28 he was editor of the series Latin Language and Literature of the Middle Ages . He died in Bülach in July 2020 at the age of 78.

Fonts

  • The Bible in Latin - inviolable? (= Medieval Perspectives. Volume 3). 3rd, updated edition. Chronos, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-0340-1106-8 .
  • Handbook on the Latin Language of the Middle Ages. 5 volumes Beck. Munich 1996-2004.
  • Ardua spes mundi. Studies on Latin poems from Sankt Gallen (= Spirit and Work of the Times. Works from the History Department of the University of Zurich. Volume 32). Lang, Bern et al. 1972, ISBN 3-261-00431-2 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Peter Stotz's obituary , Neue Zürcher Zeitung of July 8, 2020.
  2. ↑ Peter Stotz: Ardua spes mundi. Studies on Latin poems from Sankt Gallen. Bern et al. 1972, p. 9. See the review by Karl Langosch in: Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 10 (1975), pp. 311–312.
personal data
SURNAME Stotz, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 2020
Place of death Bülach , Switzerland