Virgilio Masciadri
Virgilio Rinaldo Masciadri (born November 23, 1963 in Aarau ; † May 8, 2014 ibid) was a Swiss classical philologist , poet , writer and editor .
Live and act
Virgilio Masciadri attended the old canton school in Aarau . He studied Classical and Middle Latin Philology at the University of Zurich , where he received his doctorate and habilitation and taught as a private lecturer .
He held teaching positions at the University of Zurich and at grammar schools in Zurich and Aarau. He received a scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation and worked on a project on ancient mythology in Paris .
In 1990 he received a grant from the Canton of Aarau for his poems, which he wrote as a literary critic. Two years later, the literary magazine Orte published the first texts by Masciadri (Change of Home ). Masciadri published the volume of poems Talks on Foot in 1998. A series of novels and crime novels followed.
Fonts (selection)
- Allee without leaves , poems from the estate, Book Reading Edition, Hitzkirch 2017, ISBN 978-3-906907-05-5
- The Problem of the Centaurs - The Greeks and the Wonderful. Writings on symbol research, 16: 1-27, Pano-Verlag, Zurich 2012, doi : 10.5167 / uzh-67372 .
- The song of the creaky parquet. Orte-Verlag, Oberegg 2010, ISBN 978-3-85830-152-9 .
- Demons in the Murimoos. Orte-Verlag, Oberegg 2009, ISBN 978-3-85830-150-5 .
- An island in the sea of stories. Investigations into myths from Lemnos. Habilitation thesis. Steiner, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-515-08818-3 .
- Scavenger hunt in Monastero. Orte-Verlag, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-85830-122-1 .
- Because of Marianne. Orte-Verlag, Zelg-Wolfhalden / Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-85830-113-2 .
- Conversations on foot. Orte-Verlag, Zelg-Wolfhalden / Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-85830-097-7 .
- The ancient comedy of mistake. Dissertation. Publishing house for science and research, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-476-45158-5 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Virgilio Masciadri in the catalog of the German National Library
- Virgilio in the Lexicon of Contemporary Swiss Writers
- Max Dohner: The Aargauer lyricist Virgilio Masciadri is dead. In the Aargauer Zeitung of May 12, 2014
- Pirmin Meier : Virgilio Masciadri: poet and ingenious mediator of myths. In: Swiss Month , May 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Virgilio Masciadri. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 673, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Masciadri, Virgilio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Masciadri, Virgilio Rinaldo (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss poet and prose author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 23, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aarau |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 2014 |
| Place of death | Aarau |