Volker Langholf

Volker Langholf (* 1940 ) is a German classical philologist and medical historian .

Life

He worked on the lexicon of the early Greek epic . From 1989 to 1999 he was co-editor of the Index Hippocraticus . After completing his habilitation in 1984, he was awarded the title of private lecturer and in 1999 the title of professor . He retired in 2005.

The prayers in Euripides and the chronological sequence of the tragedies (= hypomnemata. Studies on antiquity and their afterlife . Volume 32). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1971, ISBN 3-525-25124-6 (also dissertation, Hamburg 1968).
Syntactic research on Hippocrates' texts. Brachylogical syntagms in the individual disease case descriptions of the Hippocratic collection of writings (= treatises of the humanities and social science class. Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Volume 2). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-515-02145-0 .
Medical theories in Hippocrates. Early texts and the "Epidemics" (= studies on ancient literature and history. Volume 34). De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1990, ISBN 3-11-011956-0 (also habilitation thesis, Hamburg 1984).

personal data
SURNAME	Langholf, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German classical philologist and medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH	1940