Sabine G. MacCormack
Sabine G. MacCormack , née Oswalt (born February 24, 1941 in Frankfurt am Main ; † June 16, 2012 in South Bend ) was a German historian and author .
Life
From 1960 to 1961 she studied classical philology and history at Goethe University , but then switched to studying modern history at Oxford University . After graduating from Oxford with her BA in 1964, she obtained a diploma in archival science at the University of Liverpool in 1965 and then worked until 1967 as a lecturer in classical philology and legal history at the University of Sydney . After spending some time at Collins and Sons Publishers, she returned to Oxford University to do a PhD at Oxford University in Late Antiquity. She obtained her DPhil in Oxford in 1974 with a dissertation on late antique art and panegyric under the direction of Peter Brown . After graduating, she worked in publishing at Phaedon Press until 1979 (during which time she translated several papers), but in 1980 she was offered an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1982 she moved to Stanford University to take up a joint position in the departments of Classical Philology and History. She then accepted a position as Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History and Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Michigan in 1990 and Mary Ann and Charles R. Walgreen's position as Professor of Human Understanding at the University of Michigan in 1997 . In 2003 she took over the position of Reverend Theodore Hesburgh Professor at the University of Notre Dame .
In 2007 MacCormack was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Fonts (selection)
- Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity . Berkeley 1981, ISBN 0-520-03779-0 .
- Religion in the Andes. Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru . Princeton 1991, ISBN 0-691-09468-3 .
- The Shadows of Poetry. Virgil in the Mind of Augustine . Berkeley 1998, ISBN 0-520-21187-1 .
- On the wings of time. Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru . Princeton 2007, ISBN 0-691-12674-7 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | MacCormack, Sabine G. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oswalt, Sabine (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 2012 |
| Place of death | South Bend |