Simon Roelof Slings
Simon Roelof Slings , formally SR Slings , informally Siem Slings (born March 13, 1945 in Beverwijk , † January 18, 2004 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch Graecist .
Slings studied classical languages from 1962 to 1970 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam . Then he first became a teacher of ancient languages at a school in Zaandam . From 1972 on he was universitair docent (later hoofddocent) at Vrije Universiteit. In 1981 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the platonic dialogue Kleitophon with Gerrit Jacob de Vries . This brought him into contact with the Plato expert Émile de Strycker . In 1989 he became bijzonder hoogleraar at the Vrije Amsterdam until he took the chair for Greek linguistics and literature in 1994. He completed two longer stays abroad: from 1984 to 1985 he was a junior fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC and from 1990 to 1991 Netherlands Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor . In 1997 he was accepted into the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen . Slings died of cancer on January 18, 2004.
Slings worked on a variety of areas, on archaic poetry , text transmission and text criticism (especially the Cologne Epodes of Archilochus ), Plato's dialogues (especially on the state ), literary papyrology and Greek linguistics. His Oxford edition of Plato's State, which he had worked on for 25 years, was published in March 2003.
Fonts (selection)
- Critical Notes on Plato's Politeia. Edited by Gerard Boter and Jan van Ophuijsen. Leiden-Boston 2005.
- Platonis Rempublicam recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit SR Slings. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2003.
- E. de Strycker and SR Slings: Plato's Apology of Socrates: A literary and philosophical study with a running commentary. Brill, Leiden 1994.
- with Anna Maria van Erp Taalman Kip and JM Bremer : Some recently found Greek poems. Text and commentary. EJ Brill, Leiden, New York 1987. ( Archilochos , Alkaios , anonymous commentary on Hipponax , Stesichoros )
- A commentary on the Platonic Clitophon. Proefschrift Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 1981, published Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1999.
Web links
- Homepage (with photographs)
- List of publications on the homepage
- Gerard J. Boter: Simon Roelof Slings 13 maart 1945 - 18 januari 2004 (obituary with photograph)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Slings, Simon Roelof |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Slings, Siem |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch Graecist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beverwijk |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 18, 2004 |
| Place of death | Amsterdam |