Siegmar Döpp

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Siegmar Döpp (born December 10, 1941 in Marburg ) is a German classical philologist .

life and work

Döpp visited the Gymnasium Philippinum Marburg and studied from 1961 Classics and German at the universities of Frankfurt , Marburg and Munich , where he in July 1968 when Carl Becker Dr. phil. received his doctorate . He then taught as a manager of an assistant position, assistant and senior assistant (from 1977) at the Munich Seminar for Classical Philology, where, among other things, he was responsible for holding Greek and Latin style exercises. On February 19, 1977 Döpp completed his habilitation in Munich with Werner Suerbaum for Classical Philology and was appointed C2 professor on September 1, 1980. In the 1984 summer semester he was a professor at the University of Tübingen .

In the 1987 summer semester, Döpp accepted a call from the Ruhr University Bochum for a C4 professorship. From 1991 to 1993 he was Vice Dean and from 1993 to 1995 Dean of the Faculty of Philology. In the 1995 summer semester he moved to the University of Göttingen , where he taught until his retirement (April 1, 2007). During this time he was, among other things, the Göttingen liaison professor of the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst . In 1997, the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen elected him a full member.

Döpp is married and has a daughter. He has lived in Berlin since 2007.

In his research, Döpp focuses on Latin poetry from antiquity to modern times. He deals with Roman poets of the golden and silver Latinity as well as late antiquity ( Virgil , Ovid , Claudian ) and traces their effect and reception in ancient Christian, Middle and Neo-Latin poetry.

Döpp was co-editor of several magazines and series: Hypomnemata (1990–2012), Hermes (1992–2012), Fontes Christiani (1996–2008), Göttingen Forum for Classical Studies - Supplements (1999–2007), texts and comments (2002–2013) and Hermes individual fonts (2003–2014).

Fonts (selection)

  • Virgilian influence in Ovid's work. Munich 1968 (Munich, University, dissertation, December 19, 1968).
  • Contemporary history in Claudian's poems (= Hermes . Individual writings. Vol. 43). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1980, ISBN 3-515-02950-8 , (Partly also: Munich, University, habilitation thesis, 1977).
  • Ovid's works. An introduction (= dtv 4587, dtv science ). Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-423-04587-6 .
  • Ioannes Fabricius Montanus. The two Latin autobiographies (= Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz. Humanities and social sciences class. Treatises of the humanities and social sciences class . 1998, no. 8). Steiner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-07455-4 .
  • Virgilius Evangelisans. On the Praefatio and Prooemium of Alexander Ross' Christias (1638) (= News of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. Philological-Historical Class. Year 2000, No. 6, ISSN  0065-5287 ). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000.
  • Aemulation. Literary competition with the Greeks in testimonies from the first to fifth centuries (= Göttingen Forum for Classical Studies . Supplements 7). Duehrkohp & Radicke, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89744-148-9 .
  • Eve and the snake. The description of the fall of man by the epic poet Avitus in the context of the biblical exegetical tradition Kartoffeldruck-Verlag, Speyer 2009, ISBN 978-3-939526-07-0 .
  • Neo-Latin science poetry. Ioannes Fabricius Montanus (1527–1566) on Engadine mineral springs. Kartoffeldruck-Verlag, Speyer 2012, ISBN 978-3-939526-19-3 .
  • Vaticinium Lehninense - The Lehninsche prophecy. On the reception of a powerful Latin poetry from the 18th to the 20th century (= Noctes Neolatinae. 21). Olms, Hildesheim et al. 2015, ISBN 978-3-487-15239-4 .
Editing
  • Carnival-like phenomena in ancient and post-ancient cultures and literatures (= places and forms of communication in antiquity. 1 = Bochum antiquity colloquium. 13). WVT - Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier 1993, ISBN 3-88476-033-5 .
  • with Wilhelm Geerlings : Lexicon of ancient Christian literature. Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 1998, ISBN 3-451-23786-5 (Several German-language editions; in Italian: Dizionario di letteratura cristiana antica. A cura di Celestino Noce. Urbaniana University Press et al., Rome 2006, ISBN 88-401 -5006-4 ).
  • Ancient rhetoric and its reception. Symposium in honor of Professor Dr. Carl Joachim Classen D. Litt. Oxon. on November 21 and 22, 1998 in Göttingen. Steiner, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-515-07524-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Döpp, Siegmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg