Thomas Klein (philologist)

Thomas Klein (* 1957 in Siegen ) is a German Middle and New Latin philologist. He is professor for Middle and Neo-Latin Philology at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg .

Life

Thomas Klein first studied English , philosophy and Catholic theology in Paderborn and Siegen , and from 1979 classical philology, Middle Latin philology and philosophy in Bonn . In 1985 he was with Otto Zwierlein with the dissertation Parrasios Epikedion on Ippolita Sforza. An example of creative appropriation, especially the Silven des Statius is doing his doctorate . From 1989 to 1990 he was a research associate at the Bonn Medieval Latin Seminar, between 1990 and 1992 Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Pembroke College of University of Cambridge . From 1992 to 1997 he was an assistant at the Chair for Medieval Latin Philology in Bonn ( Dieter Schaller ). There he completed his habilitation in 1997 for the subject of Middle and Neo-Latin Philology with a thesis on the French canon Guido von Bazoches .

After substitute professorships in 1997/1998 at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal and 2001/2002 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , he was appointed to the professorship for Latin Philology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in 2002 . Klein's research focuses particularly on French Latin poetry in the High and Late Middle Ages. He is the author of several standard works on Middle Latin Philology and has been the editor-in-chief of the Middle Latin Yearbook since 2010 .

Research priorities

• World Chronicle (Guido von Bazoches; Hugo von Fleury )
• Pragmatic writing ( Alexander Neckam ; Gilles de Corbeil, medical textbooks; Konrad von Mure )
• Latin animal poetry of the Middle Ages and the early modern period (fable; epic)
• Misogyne literature of the Middle Ages ( Matthaeus von Boulogne ; Jehan Lefèvre )
• Hagiography (Theophilus; Eustachius; Alexius; Brendan; Thomas Becket )
• Verse satire and invective ( Gilles de Corbeil , Ierapigra ad purgandos prelatos ; Michael of Cornwall)
• Example literature of the High Middle Ages ( Petrus Alfonsi reception; Compilatio singularis exemplorum )
• Novellistics of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
• Latin-German fairy poetry
• Prince's Mirror of the Early Modern Age ( Erasmus of Rotterdam ; Johannes Dubravius )

Memberships (selection)

• Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino
• Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti di Messina
• Advisory board of the Quaderni Petrarcheschi
• Berlin Scientific Society
• Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt

Web links

• Portrait of Thomas Klein on the page of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
• Literature by and about Thomas Klein in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Thomas Klein in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Thomas Klein in the research portal Saxony-Anhalt