Ulrich Schindel

Ulrich Schindel

Ulrich Schindel (born September 10, 1935 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

Ulrich Schindel, the son of the graduate engineer Ernst Schindel and Erika geb. Vogt, attended elementary school in Frankfurt am Main and in Alsfeld , where his family lived from 1943 to 1959. From Easter 1946 he attended the Realgymnasium in Alsfeld and passed the high school diploma there in the spring of 1955 as well as a supplementary examination in Greek ( Graecum ). He then studied from May 1955 Classical Philology at the University of Göttingen , where he was accepted into the Philological Seminar in the winter semester of 1957/58. He spent one semester each at the University of Hamburg and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . On 5 July 1961 he was with the dissertation Demosthenes in the 18th century to the Dr. phil. PhD .

Schindel also completed his habilitation in Classical Philology at the University of Göttingen in 1971. In 1974 he was appointed associate professor, in 1976 he was appointed full professor (chair holder) for Latin Philology in Göttingen. In 2003 he retired .

Schindel's main research interests are Latin and Greek grammar and rhetoric, especially with regard to their ancient development and later reception. He follows the development and reception of ancient rhetoric from Attic speakers to modern times. He also deals with Greek and Latin poetry, the history of science in antiquity and the history of classical philology, particularly at the University of Göttingen. He is a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen (since 1986) and a member of the Mommsen Society , the German Association of Classical Philology and the Braunschweig Scientific Society .

Fonts (selection)

• Demosthenes in the 18th century. Ten chapters on the afterlife of Demosthenes in Germany, France, England, Zetemata 31, 1963.
• The Latin theory of figures from the 5th to 7th centuries and Donat's commentary on Virgil. With an appendix of two editions. Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Phil.-Hist. Kl., 3rd episode, No. 91, 1975.
• Anonymus Eckstein, Scemata Dianoeas quae ad rhetores pertinent, NGG Phil.-Hist. Kl. 1987, 7, pp. 1-67.
• The reception of the Hellenistic theory of rhetorical figures among the Romans. Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Phil.-Hist. Kl., 3rd episode, volume 243, 2001.
• On the history of science in late antiquity. An anonymous work on philosophy and its parts (Paris BN 7530). News of the Academy of Sciences Göttingen, phil.-hist. Class 2006, No. 1, pp. 1-68.

Web links

• Literature by Ulrich Schindel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ulrich Schindel at the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Göttingen