Thorsten Fögen

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Thorsten Fögen (born January 2, 1971 in Hagen ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

Fögen studied classical philology and general linguistics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , the University of Oxford and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . He obtained his master's degree and the first state examination in 1996. From 1996 to 1997 he was doing research at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague . The German Research Foundation sponsored him as a scholarship holder in the Graduate College Dynamics of Substandard Varieties from 1997 to 2000. In 2000, he earned his doctorate at the University of Heidelberg. He was a Research Fellow at the University of Exeter from 2000 to 2001. From 2002 to 2009 he was a research assistant (C1) for classical philology at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

After his habilitation in the 2008/2009 winter semester, he was awarded the title of private lecturer there . In addition, he was a Fellow of the European-American Young Scholars Institute of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation & Andrew Mellon Foundation in 2003 and 2004. From September 2005 to May 2006 he was a Fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC From September 2007 to August 2008 he was Feodor Lynen Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Classics. From October 2008 to March 2009 he taught as a visiting professor at the University of Konstanz . Since January 2010 he has been an Associate Professor at Durham University .

His main research interests include Latin literature from the late republic to the early and middle imperial period, ancient specialist texts and the history of science, ancient epistolography, animals in antiquity, the history of language, rhetoric and literary criticism.

Fonts (selection)

  • Patrii sermonis egestas. Attitudes of Latin authors to their mother tongue. A contribution to language awareness in Roman antiquity (= contributions to antiquity. Volume 150). Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-598-77699-3 (also dissertation, Heidelberg 2000).
  • as editor with Szilvia Deminger , Joachim Scharloth and Simone Zwickl : Attitude research in sociolinguistics and related disciplines - Studies in Language Attitudes . (= VarioLingua. Volume 10). Lang, Berlin et al. 2000, ISBN 3-631-35391-X .
  • Utraque lingua. A Bibliography on Bi- and Multilingualism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity and in Modern Times (= Linguistic Agency Series A. Volume 573). LAUD, Essen 2003, OCLC 124049713 .
  • as editor with Konrad Koerner : Linguistica Berolinensia (= Historiographia Linguistica. Volume 31,2-3). John Benjamin Publishing, Amsterdam 2004, OCLC 644993060 .
  • as editor: Antike Fachtexte - Ancient Technical Texts . De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-018122-3 .
  • as editor: Tears and Weeping in Greco-Roman Antiquity (= magazine for semiotics. Volume 28). Stauffenburg, Tuebingen 2007, OCLC 888589158 .
  • as editor: Tears in the graeco-roman world . De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-020111-6 .
  • as editor with Mireille M. Lee : Bodies and Boundaries in Graeco-Roman and Antiquity . De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-021252-5 .
  • Knowledge, communication and self-expression. On the structure and characteristics of Roman specialist texts from the early imperial period (= Zetemata . Volume 134). Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59259-1 (also habilitation thesis, Humboldt University Berlin 2008).
  • as editor with Richard Warren : Graeco-Roman Antiquity and the Idea of ​​Nationalism in the 19th Century. Case studies . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2016, ISBN 3-11-047178-7 .
  • as editor with Edmund Thomas : Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity . De Gruyter, Berlin 2017, ISBN 3-11-054416-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Fögen, Thorsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd January 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen