Sabine Grebe

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Sabine Grebe (born March 25, 1959 in Mannheim ; † December 13, 2009 in Guelph ) was a German classical scholar .

Sabine Grebe studied Classical Philology and Ancient History at the University of Heidelberg , where she passed the first state examination in 1983/1984 and then wrote her doctoral thesis on the hero show in Virgil's Aeneis under Michael von Albrecht . From 1985 to 1987 she was a PhD scholarship holder of the Graduate Fund of the State of Baden-Württemberg .

After completing his doctorate (1988), Grebe completed his legal clerkship for the higher library service at the University Library in Heidelberg and at the University of Applied Sciences for Library and Documentation in Cologne. She also worked as a lecturer and researcher at Heidelberg University, Colgate University and Wayne State University . 1997 habilitation they are in Heidelberg with a thesis on Martianus Capella . At Clare Hall College of the University of Cambridge , she was Life Member .

Since 2005 Grebe has taught at the University of Guelph in Canada, where she was appointed Associate Professor in 2009 . In the same year she developed breast cancer , which she succumbed to on December 13, 2009 at the age of 50.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Virgilian hero show. Tradition and continuation. Frankfurt am Main 1989. (Dissertation)
  • Martianus Capella: De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii. Presentation of the seven liberal arts and their relationships to one another. Stuttgart / Leipzig 1999.
  • Martianus Capella , in Wolfram Ax (Editor): Latin Teachers of Europe. 15 portraits from Varro to Erasmus of Rotterdam. Böhlau, Cologne 2005 ISBN 341214505X pp. 133-163.

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personal data
SURNAME Grebe, Sabine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 2009
Place of death Guelph