Susanne Daub

Susanne Daub (born February 17, 1964 in Dortmund ) is a German Latinist .

Life

Daub studied at the Universities of Münster , Tübingen , Seville and Cologne . In 1993 she obtained a Magister Artium degree in Latin Philology with minor subjects in English Philology and Romance Studies in Cologne . In 1996 she became a Dr. phil. PhD in Classical Philology. The Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cologne qualified her as a professor in 2004 for the subjects of Middle Latin Philology and Neo-Latin Philology and made her a private lecturer. From 2007 to 2011 she taught Latin and Spanish at the Alte Landesschule in Korbach . In 2008 she received the Venia legendi for Latin. In 2011 she was appointed Associate Professor at the University of Kassel and in the same year was offered a professorship for Middle and New Latin at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena .

Daub has taught and researched at the Universities of Cologne and Kassel since 1995 and 2009 and at the FSU Jena since the 2011/12 winter semester.

She held a chair at Harvard University (1997–1998), was a fellow of the DFG and the DAAD and a member of several graduate schools, and she received the Sidney Holgate Fellowship from the University of Durham .

Daub is a member of the Teaching and Research Center for Ancient Languages ​​and Cultures of the Mediterranean Region and of the Teaching and Research Center for Medieval Studies at the University of Cologne.

Research priorities

Daub deals with Latin literature in its entirety, preferably from a modern literary theoretical point of view. Her authors especially treated include the learned Benedictine prior Laurentius von Durham , the early Italian humanist and politician Leonardo Bruni and the Belgian Jesuit Daniel Papebroch , whose library trip across Europe laid the foundation for the largest edition project to date: the Acta Sanctorum . Daub presented first publications on all three authors.

Works

• Leonardo Bruni's speech on Nanni Strozzi. Introduction, edition and commentary (= contributions to antiquity. Vol. 84). Teubner, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-519-07633-0 (dissertation).
• God's plan of salvation - condensed. Edition of the Hypognosticon by Laurentius Dunelmensis Palm & Enke, Erlangen 2002, ISBN 3-7896-0668-5 .
• From the Bible to the epic. Laurentius' poetic strategies at the Durham spiritual court . Böhlau, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-412-14005-8 .
• On a holy hunt in Florence. From the diary of the Jesuit Daniel Papebroch. Palm & Enke, Erlangen 2010, ISBN 978-3-7896-0690-8 .
• Monuments of art in Lazio and Tuscany: descriptions and reviews by the Jesuit Daniel Papebroch from the years 1661-1662. First edition, translation, commentary. Böhlau, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-412-50346-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Susanne Daub in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Curriculum vitae. Retrieved August 9, 2017 .