Ueli Dill

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Ulrich “Ueli” Dill (born February 25, 1962 in Liestal ; resident in Pratteln and Basel ) is a Swiss classical philologist and librarian .

Life

After graduating from high school in Liestal, Ueli Dill studied Latin Philology , Greek Philology and Ancient History at the University of Basel from 1982 to 1990 . In 1997 he did his doctorate there with Fritz Graf and Martin Steinmann in Basel with a thesis on a text by Erasmus von Rotterdam for Dr. phil.

From 1984 to 1993 he taught Latin and Greek at various grammar schools in the cantons of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft . From 1990 to 1993 he was also an assistant at the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Basel. From 1993 to 1997 he worked as a research assistant on the National Fund project Critical and Annotated Edition of Erasmus, Scholia in Epistolas Hieronymi and from 1997 to 2005 as a research assistant on the National Fund project at the end of the edition of the Amerbach correspondence. From 1997 to 2005 he also worked as a lecturer at Schwabe Verlag . In 2005 he succeeded Martin Steinmann as head of the manuscripts and old prints department at the Basel University Library . In 1997/98 and since 2007 he has held or is currently teaching at the University of Basel.

Since 2008 he has been a member of the Board of Trustees for Cataloging Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in Switzerland , which he has chaired since 2014.

He also wrote numerous personal articles for the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

He is married and has two sons (* 1993 and 2000).

Fonts (selection)

  • Prolegomena to an edition by Erasmus von Rotterdam "Scholia in Epistolas Hieronymi", 2 vols., Basel 2004, doi: 10.5451 / unibas-003292450 (dissertation)
  • with Beat R. Jenny: From the workshop of the Amerbach Edition. Christoph Vischer on his 90th birthday, Basel 2000
  • Co-editor: Meeting beautiful books: Hans Ungnad's gift of books and the Basel University Library in the 16th century, Basel 2005
  • Associate Editor: Ancient Myths. Media, Transformations and Constructions, Berlin 2009
  • Co-editor: Die Amerbachkorrespondenz, Vol. 11: The letters from the years 1559–1562, Basel 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b CV in dissertation, accessed on October 23, 2015.