Tamara Choitz

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Tamara Choitz (* 1958 in Rüsselsheim ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

From 1968 to 1977 she attended the modern-linguistic and natural science Max Planck High School in Rüsselsheim and from 1977 to 1984 studied Classical Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and at the University of Basel . From 1984 to 1988 she was an assistant at the Antikenmuseum Basel and the Ludwig Collection. She worked as an editor at Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae from 1988 to 1989. From 1990 to 1992 she graduated in Bad Kreuznach the traineeship for teaching at secondary schools in the subjects of Latin / Greek. To the Dr. phil. she became in 1991 at the University of Basel with the thesis Ho Theos semainei. The divine commission and its interpretation by the people in the Philoctetes of Sophocles promoted . In the study house St. Lambert she was 1994-1998 Lecturer in Greek and Latin. From 1997 to 1998 she worked at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier . In the subject of Classical Philology , she received her habilitation at the University of Mainz in 2002 with her work Petrarch's Africa as a political ancient epic against a Christian background . From 1998 she taught in the school service in Rhineland-Palatinate , from 2007 at the Kurfürst-Salentin-Gymnasium in Andernach . Since 2009 she has been a regional specialist advisor for the subject of Greek and has been partially delegated to the University of Mainz for the provision of specialist didactic events. Since 2010 she has been an adjunct professor at the University of Mainz.

Fonts (selection)

  • Selected coins from Greater Greece and Sicily . Basel 1989, ISBN 3-905057-03-4 .
  • Investigations on the Sophoclesian Philoctetes. The triggering event in the piece design (= contributions to antiquity. Volume 110). Teubner, Stuttgart et al. 1998, ISBN 3-519-07659-4 (also dissertation, Basel 1991).
  • Antiquity and Christianity in Petrarch's "Africa" (= NeoLatina. Volume 7). Narr, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-8233-6117-1 (also habilitation thesis, Mainz 2002).

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personal data
SURNAME Choitz, Tamara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruesselsheim