Stefan Radt

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Stefan Radt (2009)

Stefan Lorenz Radt (born August 4, 1927 in Berlin ; † November 22, 2017 ) was a Dutch classical philologist of German origin.

Life

Stefan Radt emigrated from Germany to Holland with his parents Fritz and Jula Radt in 1937 and lived in Amsterdam. With the help of the Dutch underground movement, he was able to hide from the German occupiers from 1943 onwards. During the underground era he taught himself the ancient Greek language with school books . From 1946 to 1953 he studied Classical Philology at the University of Amsterdam . From 1954 to 1955 he traveled to Cambridge , Rome and Greece on a foreign scholarship . He then worked as a high school teacher in Hilversum until 1956 . In 1958 he was awarded a doctorate with the dissertation “ Pindars Second and Sixth Paian”. phil. PhD .

From 1958 to 1960 Radt worked at the Lexicon of the Early Greek Epic in Hamburg . In 1960 he became a lecturer in Classical Philology in Amsterdam. In 1967 he was appointed full professor for Greek language and literature at the University of Groningen . In 1987 he retired.

Honors

On January 14, 2010, Radt received an honorary doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. Among other things, his outstanding services to the editing and indexing of ancient texts were recognized. Radt's new edition of Strabon's Geographika in ten volumes (with German translation and commentary) is regarded as the new standard edition in research. In 1987 he was elected a corresponding member of the British Academy .

Radt was a symbol of Dutch-German friendship.

Fonts (selection)

  • Pindar's second and sixth paian. Text, Scholia and Commentary . Amsterdam 1958 (dissertation)
  • Tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta . Volume 4: Sophocles . Göttingen 1977. Editio correctior et addendis aucta 1999
  • Tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta . Volume 3: Aeschylus . Göttingen 1985. 2nd edition 2008
  • One more time ... Small writings by Stefan Radt on his 75th birthday . Suffering u. a. 2002
  • Strabons Geographika . Edited with translation and commentary by Stefan Radt. 10 volumes, Göttingen 2003–2011

Editing

literature

  • John W. Montgomery (Ed.): International scholars directory. International Scholarly Publishers, Strasbourg 1973, ISBN 0-913440-01-9 , p. 204.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Hans Bernsdorff : The things of the spirit. On the death of the classical philologist Stefan Radt . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of November 27, 2017, p. 12.
  2. ^ Album Academicum of the Universiteit van Amsterdam , accessed on November 9, 2017.
  3. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Radt, Stefan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Radt, Stefan Lorenz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch classical philologist of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 22nd November 2017