Thomas Haye

Thomas Haye (born January 22, 1966 in Oldenburg ) is a German Middle Latin philologist. He is professor for Middle and New Latin Philology at the University of Göttingen .

Life

Thomas Haye received his Abitur in 1985 at the Alten Gymnasium Oldenburg (AGO). As a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation, he studied Latin, history, political science and pedagogy at the University of Göttingen from 1985 to 1990 with the aim of teaching at grammar schools. At the same time he completed a master’s and doctoral degree in Latin Philology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times. 1991–93 he wrote his dissertation on the high medieval grammarian Johannes de Garlandia with Fidel Rädle , with which he received his doctorate in 1993.

From 1994 to 1996 Haye was a research assistant at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau , where he worked at the Collaborative Research Center 321 “Transitions and areas of tension between orality and written form”. There he belonged to an interdisciplinary working group for research into medieval literary genres. In February 1996 he received his habilitation in Middle Latin Philology . His supervisors were Paul Gerhard Schmidt and Wolfgang Raible . In April 1996 he was appointed to the professorship for Middle and Neo-Latin Philology at the University of Kiel . From 1999 to 2002 he was the spokesman for the newly established Research Training Group 515 “Imaginatio borealis. Construction, Perception and Reception of the North ”. In April 2002, Haye moved to the University of Göttingen as the holder of the chair for Medieval and Modern Latin Philology , becoming the successor to his doctoral supervisor Fidel Rädle. There he has been director of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Research since October 2005. He declined offers to the University of Münster (2010) and the University of Freiburg (2017).

Memberships (selection)

• Latin Middle Ages Working Group (board member)
• Medieval Association
• Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino
• German Neo-Latin Society
• International Association for Neo-Latin Studies
• North German philologists' meeting on classical philology and the history of the ancient world

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Haye in the catalog of the German National Library
• Center for Medieval and Early Modern Research: Department for Latin Philology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Former page of the old grammar school Oldenburg  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Staff of the chair

University of Göttingen