Rainer Kößling

Rainer Kößling (born September 28, 1936 in Grimma ) is a German classical philologist , Germanist and translator . Until his retirement in 2001 he was professor for older German and Latin literature of the Middle Ages and the early modern period at the University of Leipzig .

Career

Kößling studied in Leipzig and from 1960 was an assistant at the Institute for Classical Philology there. He worked on several lexicon projects, including the " Lexicon of Antiquity " created at the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology . After the political change he became professor at the Leipzig Institute for German Studies in 1992. He was a DAAD appraiser and liaison professor for the German National Academic Foundation . In 1997 he received the Theodor Frings Prize from the Saxon Academy of Sciences .

Poetic self-confidence and poetic pride in ancient Greek literature. Diss. Leipzig 1965
Literature, culture and society in Germany during the transition from feudalism to capitalism (1470–1525). A documentation. Diss. B Leipzig 1986
with Günther Wartenberg (ed.): Joachim Camerarius . Tübingen: Narr 2003 ( ISBN 3-8233-5981-9 ) ( preview on Google Books)

Book printing and humanist letters. In: Große, R .; Wellmann, H. (Hg.): Text types in language change - after the invention of the printing press. Heidelberg 1996, pp. 297-304
“Flight from the Republic” - the unauthorized leaving of the GDR as reflected in the language. In: Hertel, V .; Barz, I .; Metzler, R .; Uhlig, B. (ed.): Language and communication in a cultural context: Contributions to the honorary colloquium on the occasion of Gotthard Lerchner's 60th birthday. Frankfurt / Main 1996, pp. 239-250
The beginnings of Nordic studies at the University of Leipzig. In: Wilhelm Heizmann (ed.): Runica, Germanica, Mediaevalia. Berlin: de Gruyter 2003, pp. 356–374

(with Harry C. Schnur :) Bile and honey. Humanist epigrams. Leipzig: Reclam 1982 (2nd edition 1984).
(with Gertrud Weiss-Stählin :) Olympia Fulvia Morata . Letters (from Latin, Italian and Greek). Leipzig: Reclam 1991 ( ISBN 3-379-00529-0 )
Life and legend of St. Elisabeth , after Dietrich von Apolda . (With an afterword.) Insel Verlag, Frankfurt / Main u. Leipzig 1997, Insel-Bücherei 1172 ( ISBN 3-379-00529-0 )

↑ See Leipziger Universitätsjournal, November 2001, p. 36 (as PDF ( memento of the original from November 25, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to instructions and then remove this notice. ). @1@ 2

↑ See archived copy ( memento of the original from September 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed September 22, 2009). @1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Kößling, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German classical philologist, Germanist and translator, professor at the University of Leipzig
DATE OF BIRTH	September 28, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Grimma