Ulrich Schmitzer
Ulrich Schmitzer (* 19th March 1960 in Fürth ) is a German classical scholar .
Life
After graduating from the Willibald-Pirckheimer -Gymnasium in Nuremberg, Ulrich Schmitzer began studying teaching at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in the subjects of German, Latin and history, initially with a focus on modern German literature. Soon after, however, he turned increasingly to Latin studies and, after a short stay in 1982 at the University of Vienna , passed the first state examination in 1985 and 1986 in Erlangen. From 1987 to 1989 he worked on his doctorate with Severin Koster in Erlangen .
He then continued his teacher training with the legal clerkship, which he completed in 1991 with the second state examination. He always describes this phase of his career as very valuable; Nevertheless, he then returned to the university and became a research assistant at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. After his habilitation in 1997, he was given a position as senior assistant. After a substitute for Barbara Feichtinger at the University of Konstanz , he was appointed to the Chair of Classical Philology / Latin at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 2003, where he has been active ever since.
Ulrich Schmitzer is (co-) editor of the magazine “ Gymnasium ” and the series “Vertumnus” and works in various functions for the German Classical Philology Association and the Mommsen Society . He is also in charge of the classical philology portal KIRKE. Ulrich Schmitzer is married and has three children.
Services
Even during his studies, Schmitzer's main interest was in the literature of the Augustan period, particularly Ovid , which was reflected in his dissertation on the subject of “Contemporary History in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Mythological poetry with political claim ”reached its first climax and reached its preliminary peak in 2001 in the Ovid monograph. The book is regarded as a standard work on Ovid within and outside of classical philology .
Further research areas are ancient historiography (habilitation on the subject of “Velleius Paterculus and the interest in history in the age of Tiberius”) and the city of Rome in its literary reception.
Classical philology in the new media represents a special area of interest Schmitzer, which is reflected fruitfully in the KIRKE internet portal for classical studies that he oversees.
Since 2002 he has been a member of the board of the German Classical Philology Association , and since 2015 he has been a member of the executive board of one of Hartmut Loos' two deputies.
Works
- Contemporary history in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Mythological poetry with a political claim. Stuttgart 1990 (contributions to archeology 4)
- Ovid - life and work. An introduction based on the elegy trist. 4.10. Munich 1994 (contributions to grammar school education 20)
- Velleius Paterculus and the Interest in History in the Age of Tiberius. Heidelberg: Winter 2000 ( Library of Classical Classical Studies 2,107)
- Ovid. An introduction. Hildesheim et al .: Georg Olms Verlag 2001 (licensed edition Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2001), 2nd edition: 2011, Italian translation by Mariella Bonvicini: Bologna: CLUEB 2006.
- Rome in sight. Readings of the city from Plautus to Juvenal. Darmstadt: WBG 2016.
- Ovid's metamorphoses Germanized. Translations of the “Metamorphoses” from the Middle Ages and early modern times to the end of the 20th century. In: Josefine Kitzbichler, Ulrike CA Stephan (Ed.): Studies on the practice of translating ancient literature. History - analysis - criticism. de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2016, pp. 113–245 ( preview of the book on Google Books).
Editing:
- Vertumnus. Berlin contributions to classical philology and its neighboring fields. Edition Ruprecht , Göttingen 2006ff. Overview of published volumes and e-books [1]
Web links
- Literature by and about Ulrich Schmitzer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Classical philology portal KIRKE
- Homepage
- Writings by Ulrich Schmitzer in Propylaeum-DOK
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmitzer, Ulrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fuerth |