Rainer Henke

Rainer Henke (* 1951 in Oldenburg ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

After graduating from high school in Emmerich , Henke studied Latin and sports for teaching at the universities of Tübingen and Münster . After the First State Examination (1975) followed a postgraduate course in Greek and Philosophy, which Henke also completed with the First State Examination in 1978. He then worked as a research assistant at Christian Gnilka's chair , where he received his doctorate in 1981 . He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Classical Philology, from 1982 as a student councilor in the university department, from 1986 as a senior teacher. In 1996 he completed his habilitation and in December 2001 he was appointed adjunct professor. He retired in 2014.

Henke deals with Roman literature, especially with the writings of the church fathers and Christian poets. In his dissertation he examined a hymn by Prudentius , in his habilitation thesis the homilies of St. Basil and St. Ambrose on the hexaemeron ( creation story ). In addition, he wrote several essays in which he examined the language use of various Roman authors and the reception of pagan poetry by Christian writers.

Fonts (selection)

• Studies on Prudentius' Romanus hymn . Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York 1983 ( European University Papers, Series XV: Classical Languages ​​and Literatures 27; Dissertation)
• Latin elementary vocabulary to early Christian authors . Munster 1990
• Basil and Ambrosius on the six-day work. A comparative study . Basel 2000 ( ΧΡΗΣΙΣ 7; habilitation thesis)

literature

• Rainer Henke . In: Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . Founded by Joseph Kürschner . 21st edition. KG Saur Verlag, Munich [ua] 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-23616-7 , p. 1358 ( degruyter.com - constantly updated, restricted online edition).

Web links

• Rainer Henke at the Westphalian Wilhelms University