Reinhold F. Glei

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Reinhold F. Glei (born June 11, 1959 in Remscheid ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

After graduating from the Remscheid Leibniz-Gymnasium in 1977, Glei began studying Classical Philology, Middle Latin Philology, Byzantine Studies and Philosophy at the University of Cologne . During his studies he worked as a substitute teacher at the high school in Cologne-Rodenkirchen (1979/80) and headed a Greek group at his former high school in Remscheid. In 1982 he passed the first state examination in Greek and Latin and took up a position as a research assistant at the Department of Classical Philology at the Ruhr University in Bochum . In 1983 he was in Cologne with the dissertation The Batrachomyomachie. PhD synoptic edition and commentary . In 1984 he became a university assistant in Bochum.

After his habilitation in 1989 at the Ruhr University Bochum, he was appointed private lecturer in 1990. In the winter semester of 1990/1991 he was Reinhard Häußler's professor at the University of Düsseldorf . From the summer semester 1991 to the winter semester 1991/1992 he worked for Carl Joachim Classen in Göttingen . He then represented the Chair of Classical Philology (from Reinhart Herzog ) at Bielefeld University until the summer semester of 1993 , before he was appointed his successor on June 18, 1993. In 1996 he switched to a professorship for Latin philology (especially Latin literature of the classical era and late antiquity as well as humanism) and managing director of the seminar for classical philology at Bochum University. He turned down calls to Heidelberg to succeed Michael von Albrechts (1999) and Bonn (2004).

From 2001 to 2003 Glei was Dean of the Faculty of Philology at the University of Bochum, and from 2002 to 2003 chairman of the Deans Conference. From 2003 to 2007 he was chairman of the German Neo-Latin Society .

Glei is involved in the Anti-Lucretius project of the German Research Foundation . Among other things, he is editor of the Corpus Islamo-Christianum .

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