Thomas Köves-inflow

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Thomas Köves-Zulauf (born August 8, 1923 in Kalaznó , Kingdom of Hungary ) is a German classical philologist and religious scholar of Hungarian-German origin.

Life and Scientific Work

Thomas Theophil Köves-Zulauf, the son of a pastor, attended the Mátyás Király Realgymnasium in Budapest from 1933 to 1937 and the Evangelical Gymnasium in Budapest from 1937 to 1941. After graduation on June 11, 1941, he studied Classical Philology , Ancient History and Classical Archeology at the University of Budapest and at the Eötvös-József College in Budapest. In 1943 he completed a summer course at Heidelberg University .

Köves-Zulauf passed the state examination in July 1945, the assessor examination on December 19, 1945 and was awarded a doctorate on May 10, 1946. phil. PhD . In 1947 he went to the University of Zurich on a scholarship . In September of the same year he received a teaching assignment for Greek at the Eötvös-József College. At the same time he worked as a press officer at the Hungarian Foreign Ministry. From 1949 to 1950 he was a scientific editor at the Budapest University Press.

From 1950 to 1953 Köves-Zulauf completed a second degree in Russian at the University of Budapest. At the same time he worked as a teacher at the high school. For the years 1957 to 1959 he received a scholarship for research stays in Vienna and Brussels.

After his research trip, Köves-Zulauf emigrated to the Federal Republic of Germany . From 1959 to 1963 he worked as a teacher at the Philippinum Grammar School in Marburg , and from the summer semester of 1963 as a lecturer at the Philipps University in Marburg . On October 1, 1963, he was appointed to the faculty at the university, and on September 30, 1966, he was promoted to the senior level. On December 10, 1969 , he completed his habilitation and on July 27, 1971, he was finally appointed professor. In the academic years 1972/93 and 1980/81 Köves-Zulauf was Dean of the Department of Classical Studies at Philipps University.

After his retirement in 1988, he worked as a visiting professor at the Universities of Budapest (1991), Debrecen (1992, 1994, 1996, 1997) and Szeged (1995).

His main research interests are in the area of ​​Roman religion and mythology. He was particularly concerned with religious rites. His small writings appeared in two volumes from 1988 to 2003.

Awards and honors

  • Corresponding member of the Société Hongroise des Études Classiques (Budapest) (1983)
  • Honorary Citizen of the City of Debrecen (1996)
  • Honorary doctorate from the University of Debrecen (2006)
  • foreign member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2007)
  • István Hahn Lecturer at the University of Budapest (2008)
  • Ábel Jenö Medal of the Hungarian Society for Classical Studies (2017)

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • The Cosmology of Xenophanes , (Diss. Mach.) Budapest 1946.
  • Talk and silence. Roman religion with Pliny Maior , (Habil. Marburg 1969) Munich 1972 (Studia et Testimonia Antiqua. Vol. 12).
  • Roman birth rites , Munich 1990 (Zetemata. Vol. 87).
  • Bevezetés a római vallás és monda történetébe , Budapest 1995. (Hungarian; introduction to the Roman history of religion and legends)
  • The virtue of the chaste Kydippe: appearance and being , Budapest 2009 (István Hahn Lectures, vol. 1).

Collections of articles

  • Achim Heinrichs (Ed.): Thomas Köves-Zulauf - Kleine Schriften , Heidelberg 1988. (also contains biographical dates and a catalog raisonné )
  • Thomas Köves-Zulauf: Kleine Schriften II , Marburg 2003.

literature

  • Inge Auerbach: Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis. Second volume: 1910 to 1971 . Marburg 1979, p. 546.
  • Life data , in: Achim Heinrichs (Ed.): Thomas Köves-Zulauf - Kleine Schriften , Heidelberg 1988, p. VIII.
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , 23rd Edition (2011), p. 2172.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ life data . In: Achim Heinrichs (ed.): Thomas Köves-Zulauf - Small writings . Wiesbaden 1988, p. VIII .
  2. ↑ life data . In: Achim Heinrichs (ed.): Thomas Köves-Zulauf - Small writings . Wiesbaden 1988, p. VIII .
  3. ^ Brigitte Kappl: Award for Latinists in Marburg. In: www.uni-marburg.de. Philipps-Universität Marburg, Department of Foreign Language Philologies, Institute for Classical Languages ​​and Literatures, Department of Classical Philology, accessed on November 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Köves-Zulauf, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Köves-Zulauf, Thomas Theophil Heinrich; Zulauf, Theofiel Henrik (former name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Kalaznó