Thomas A. Schmitz

Thomas A. Schmitz (born March 19, 1963 in Bardenberg ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

After graduating from the Heilig-Geist-Gymnasium in Würselen , Schmitz studied Classical Philology, Romance Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Bonn , the Sorbonne and Harvard University from 1984 to 1991 . In 1991 he was in Bonn with a thesis on the reception of the poet Pindar in the French Renaissance literature doctorate . After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Sorbonne, he worked as a research assistant at the University of Kiel from 1992 to 1999 , where he completed his habilitation in 1996 with a thesis on the social and political function of the Second Sophistic Studies . In 1997 he was a visiting scholar at Harvard University.

In 1999 Schmitz was appointed to the chair for Classical Philology (focus on Greek Studies ) at the University of Frankfurt am Main . In 2003 he moved to the corresponding chair at the University of Bonn. In 2014/15 he was visiting professor at Stanford University.

Fonts

• Pindar in the French Renaissance: studies on its reception in philology, poetry theory and poetry , Göttingen 1993 ( Hypomnemata 101)
• Education and Power: On the Social and Political Function of the Second Sophistic in the Greek World of the Imperial Era , Munich 2000 ( Zetemata 97)
• Modern literary theory and ancient texts: An introduction , Darmstadt 2002
• Modern literary theory and ancient texts: an introduction , Oxford 2007

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , Edition 2001, Volume 3, p. 2856

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas A. Schmitz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Thomas A. Schmitz at the University of Bonn