Rolf Heine

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Rolf Heine

Rolf Heine (born April 18, 1937 in Bremerhaven ; † March 6, 2018 in Göttingen ) was a German classical philologist .

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After graduating from the Realgymnasium in Bremerhaven, Heine studied classical philology, philosophy and English at the University of Göttingen from 1956 to 1964 . He spent the winter semester 1956/1957 at the Vechta University of Education . After testing in the subjects of philosophy and education (1959), he was in 1963 in Göttingen with a dissertation studies on the novel form of Apuleius doctorate ; The main reviewer was Will Richter , co-referee Karl Deichgräber .

After graduating in Latin and English (1964), he completed his legal clerkship in Bremen. From 1966 to 1968 he worked as a research assistant at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich, for which he has been a flag reader since 1977. From 1968 he worked as a lecturer, later academic and senior counselor at the Department of Classical Philology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . After his retirement (2002) he held lectures on Greek stylistics as part of a teaching assignment until the 2016/2017 winter semester.

Heine dealt intensively with Latin grammar and lexicography. His main work is the revision of the "Latin grammar based on linguistic science" by Hans Rubenbauer and Johann Baptist Hofmann . On the occasion of his retirement, the commemorative publication Thesaurismata Gottingensia was published in 2002 : Rolf Heine on April 18. and 30.9.2002 dedicated by his colleagues and students .

Fonts (selection)

  • Investigations into the novel form of Apuleius . Diss. Göttingen 1963 (mach.)
  • On the 2nd and 17th poems of Catullus . In: Gymnasium 74, 1967, pp. 315–321.
  • Catullus ( ways of inquiry ; 308). Darmstadt 1975.
  • Rubenbauer / Hofmann: Latin grammar . Revised by Rolf Heine, 9th edition Bamberg / Munich 1975 (last in 12th edition 1995).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Göttinger Tageblatt of March 10, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Heine, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 2018
Place of death Goettingen