Robert Kirstein

Robert Kirstein (born June 4, 1967 in Bonn ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

Robert Kirstein studied Classical Philology and Protestant Theology at the Universities of Bonn , Münster and Oxford ( Christ Church College ) from 1987 to 1993 . During his studies he received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation . After the state examination, he worked from 1996 to 1997 as a research assistant at the Institute for Classical Philology at the University of Münster, where he worked with Christian Gnilka in 1997 with the dissertation Paulinus Nolanus. Carmen 17. Text, introduction and commentary was completed. He then went to the University of Illinois for one year as a George Abbott Oldfather Scholar (scholarship from the William Abbott Oldfather Foundation ) . He was able to extend his stay there by two years with a Feodor Lynen Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

After returning to Germany, Kirstein worked as a scientific university assistant in Münster, where in 2006 he dealt with the writing Young Shepherds and Old Fishermen. The poems 20, 21 and 27 of the Corpus Theocriteum habilitated. After completing his habilitation, he initially took on a position at the Institute for Greek and Latin Philology at the University of Bonn, before he was employed as a research assistant in Münster in 2007. During this time, Kirstein held various chair replacements.

In 2011, shortly after his appointment as adjunct professor at the University of Münster, Kirstein took over from Jürgen Leonhardt's chair at the University of Tübingen. At the end of 2018 he was appointed professor there and has since been full professor of Latin philology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.

Kirstein's main research interests include the literature of Hellenism (especially bucolic ), the ancient epigram , late Latin antiquity and the history of reception and science, especially of the 19th and 20th centuries. In recent years he has also been concerned with the application of structuralist , in particular narratological models to ancient texts.

Works

• Robert Kirstein: Young shepherds and old fishermen: the poems 27, 20 and 21 of the Corpus Theocriteum, de Gruyter, Berlin / New York, NY 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019224-7 (Habilitation University of Münster 2006, X, 247 Pages illustrated, 24 cm).

Web links

• Literature by Robert Kirstein in the catalog of the German National Library
• Robert Kirstein at the University of Tübingen
• Homepage of Robert Kirstein ( Memento from October 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2. Retrieved March 27, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Chair of Latin II (Kirstein). Retrieved March 27, 2019 .