Volker Riedel
Volker Riedel (born November 17, 1943 in Leipzig ) is a German classical philologist .
Life
Riedel studied Latin and German from 1963 to 1968 at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He then worked as a research assistant in the literary archives of the Berlin Academy of the Arts . In 1970 he received his doctorate with the thesis Lessing and Roman literature ( Doctorate A ). He achieved his doctorate B ( habilitation ) in 1982 with a thesis on the reception of antiquity in the literature of the German Democratic Republic . Since 1983 he has been a board member of the Winckelmann Society . In 1987 he accepted a professorship for Latin studies at the University of Jena . In 1998 he received the Winckelmann Medal from the city of Stendal . At the New Pauly , Riedel was responsible for the educational system of the reception volumes. His main field of work is the reception of antiquity in German literature.
Web links
- Literature by and about Volker Riedel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Volker Riedel at the University of Jena
First chair: Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand (1817–1851) | Carl Nipperdey (1852–1875) | Erwin Rohde (1876–1878) | Rudolf Hirzel (1886–1913) | Christian Jensen (1913–1917) | Otto Weinreich (1918) | Friedrich Zucker (1918–1961) | Ernst Günther Schmidt (1974 / 87–1994) | Jürgen Dummer (1994–2000) | Jürgen Hammerstaedt (2000–2004) | Rainer Thiel (since 2005)
Second chair: Karl Wilhelm Göttling (1831–1869) | Conrad Bursian (1869–1874) | Rudolf Schöll (1874–1876) | Alfred von Gutschmid (1876–1877) | Heinrich Gelzer (1878–1906) | Georg Goetz (1906–1923) | Johannes Stroux (1923–1924) | Karl Barwick (1925–1954) | Friedmar Kühnert (1961–1981) | Volker Riedel (1987-2008) | Meinolf Vielberg (since 1994)
Extraordinary office: Friedrich Gotthilf Osann (1821–1825) | Hermann Weißenborn (1843–1849) | Georg Bippart (1850–1852) | Moritz Vermehren (1864–1893) | Ernst Diehl (1906–1911) | Albrecht von Blumenthal (1928–1938)
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| SURNAME | Riedel, Volker |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |