Thomas Schirren

Thomas Schirren (born June 15, 1965 in Munich ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

After graduating from high school Philippinum Marburg , Schirren did basic military service from 1984 to 1985 and then studied classical philology and philosophy at the Universities of Göttingen and Munich . Since 1989 he has been a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . After graduating in 1991, he began his doctoral project Aisthesis before Platon with Dieter Bremer , from 1994 as a doctoral scholarship from the Studienstiftung. After receiving his doctorate (1996), Schirren was employed in 1997 as a research assistant by Gert Ueding at the Department of General Rhetoric at the University of Tübingen . From 1999 to 2004 he was a research assistant for Greek studies at the Department of Classical Philology in Tübingen. On December 7, 2004 he received the Venia legendi with his habilitation thesis Philosophos Bios: The ancient philosopher's biography as a symbolic form , which was published in Heidelberg in 2005. After a substitute professor for Greek studies at the University of Heidelberg in the 2005 summer semester, he completed his legal clerkship in Latin, Greek and philosophy until January 2007. In July 2006 he was offered the chair of Greek studies at the University of Salzburg (successor to Joachim Dalfen ), which he followed in the 2007 summer semester.

Thomas Schirren has been married to the archaeologist Nadia J. Koch since 1993. He is the great-great-grandson of Carl Schirren .

Research and Teaching

Schirren's scientific focus is on ancient philosophy and rhetoric, but also on questions of literary theory. Since the end of 2007 he has been in charge of the Rector's Office - Rhetoric at the University of Salzburg . There, students of all subjects can take rhetoric courses and complete a certificate program. The profile of this program is based on the concept of general rhetoric from the institute of the same name at the University of Tübingen .

literature

• Vade Mecum of History , 2004/2005, p. 556
• Thomas Schirren: Quintilian , in: Wolfram Ax , ed .: Latin teachers in Europe. 15 portraits from Varro to Erasmus of Rotterdam. Böhlau, Cologne 2005 ISBN 341214505X

Web links

• Literature by Thomas Schirren in the catalog of the German National Library
• Thomas Schirren at the University of Salzburg