Udo Kindermann

Udo Kindermann (born July 19, 1941 in Breslau ) is a German Middle Latin philologist .

Life

Kindermann passed the Abitur at the Humanist High School in Fürth in 1961. From 1961 to 1966 he studied Latin and English at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and in 1966 passed the state examination for teaching at grammar schools in Bavaria; From 1964 to 1968 he studied Latin Philology of the Middle Ages with Franz Brunhölzl and Paul Klopsch on a Cusanuswerk scholarship (completed in 1969 with a doctorate in philosophy). From 1967 to 1991 he worked at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg as a research assistant and later as an academic director. In 1974 he became Latin Philology of the Middle Ages habilitated , appointed in 1975 as Lecturer and 1982 as adjunct professor. In 1991 he was appointed full professor of Latin Philology of the Middle Ages at the University of Cologne , where he represented the subject in research and teaching from 1991 to 2006 as head of the Middle Latin Department of the Institute for Classical Studies. In 2006 he retired.

Focus of work

Kindermann deals with Middle Latin literature in all its breadth, preferably with poetry and preferably from a literary point of view. Among the authors he has especially treated are Laurentius von Durham and Gregory von Montesacro , the satirist Wilchard von Lyon and the poet King Chilperich I. He also published Daniel Papebroch's report on his trip to the library in 1660 for the first time.

Fonts (selection)

• Lawrence of Durham, Consolatio de morte amici. Investigations and Critical Text . Dissertation Erlangen 1969.
• Satyra. The theory of satire in Middle Latin. Preliminary study for a genre history . Nuremberg 1978.
• Between epic and drama: an unknown quarrel of the daughters of God. First edition of a Latin poem from the 13th century . Erlangen 1987.
• with Wolfgang Maaz and Fritz Wagner (eds.): Festschrift for Paul Klopsch on his 65th birthday . Goeppingen 1988.
• The poet from the Holy Mountain. An introduction to the work of the Middle Latin author Gregor von Montesacro, with first editions and studies . Nuremberg 1989.
• Flores Psalmorum. A Hitherto Unknown Jesu-Psalter by the 13th-Century Latin Author Gregory of Montesacro . Concord, New Hampshire, 1990.
• Introduction to Latin Literature of Medieval Europe . Turnhout 1998.
• Art monuments between Antwerp and Trento: descriptions and evaluations by the Jesuit Daniel Papebroch from 1660. First edition, translation and commentary . Cologne 2002.
• Should one mourn the dead? An answer from 1141 in the Consolatio of Lawrence of Durham, edition and translation . Erlangen 2010.
• Medieval satires. Latin and German . Darmstadt 2013.
• Art monuments in Veneto: descriptions and evaluations by the Jesuit Daniel Papebroch from 1660. First edition, translation and commentary . Cologne 2016.

Web links

• University of Cologne
• Books and essays by Udo Kindermann in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii