Rudolf Stark (classical philologist)

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Rudolf Stark (born July 13, 1912 in Saargemünd , † July 22, 1966 in Saarbrücken ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Rudolf Stark grew up in Koblenz and attended the Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium . After graduating from high school (1931) he studied classical philology, history and religious studies in Göttingen and Berlin . In Göttingen he was particularly influenced by Hermann Fränkel , Kurt Latte and Max Pohlenz . After receiving his doctorate (1936, with Max Pohlenz and Ulrich Knoche ), Stark worked as a research assistant at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae . On May 1, 1937, he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 4,503,460). From April 18, 1939 he was a student trainee at the Beethoven-Gymnasium Bonn .

When the Second World War broke out , Stark was drafted and had to interrupt his career. After a short prisoner of war he moved to Cologne in autumn 1945, where he worked as a high school teacher and lecturer at the university (from 1947). On April 1, 1949, he accepted a call to the newly founded University of Saarland as an extraordinary professor for Greek literature and language. After he had made up his habilitation in Göttingen in 1955 , he was appointed full professor. He died in 1966 at the age of 54 after a long and serious illness.

Stark gained a great reputation as an academic teacher and organizer of the Saarbrücken seminar for classical philology. In his research he dealt with large parts of Greek and Latin literature from Archaic to late antiquity. In 1964 he founded the Palingenesia series .

A research focus of Stark was the ancient political theory. In his dissertation he analyzed the semantics and conceptual history of the res publica . In later essays he dealt with the nature of the ancient Roman dictatorship, Cicero's definition of the state and the majority principle of the Romans. He also planned a commentary on the politics of Aristotle , but he could not realize. Much of his research on politics and rhetoric appeared posthumously, edited by his student Peter Steinmetz .

literature

  • Peter Steinmetz: Rudolf Stark † . In: Gnomon , Vol. 39 (1967), pp. 102-104

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personal data
SURNAME Strong, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Sarreguemines
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1966
Place of death Saarbrücken