Walter Marg

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Grave of Walter Marg in the main cemetery in Mainz

Walter Marg (born July 13, 1910 in Prostken , East Prussia ; † November 11, 1983 in Mainz ) was a German classical philologist and professor of classical philology with a focus on Greek studies at the University of Mainz .

Marg studied in Königsberg, Freiburg and Kiel and, as a pupil of Richard Harder in 1935 at the University of Kiel , did her doctorate with a dissertation on character in the language of early Greek poetry and during a vacation from military service in 1942 with a critical edition including a translation of the pseudo-Pythagorean Timaeus Locrus , De natura mundi et animae qualified as a professor. After the war, he initially held a teaching position there, and from 1953 to 1975 he was professor of classical philology in Mainz. From 1938 to 1965, he succeeded Harder as the editor of the ancient scholarly review organ Gnomon .

Marg mainly dealt with the archaic and classical literature of the Greeks , in particular with the authors Homer , Hesiod , Herodotus and early Greek poetry ( Semonides ) in order to work out "basic patterns of human thought and action" (Nicolai). In his dissertation, Marg turned against Bruno Snell's thesis that Homer still had no idea of ​​the personal unity of man. Marg also worked as a translator for these authors, and subsequently, in collaboration with Richard Harder, also as a translator for Ovid .

Fonts (selection)

  • The character in the language of early Greek poetry (Semonides, Homer, Pindar) , Würzburg 1938. Unchanged reprographic reprint, with an afterword to the reprint. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1967 (Libelli, Vol. 117).
  • Battle and Death in the Iliad . 1942.
  • 'Confidence' in Herodotus . 1953.
  • The first song of the Demodokos . In: Navicula Chiloniensis. Festschrift for Felix Jacoby . 1956.
  • Homer on Poetry: The Shield of Achilles . 1957. 2nd, slightly changed edition with supplements. Aschendorff, Münster 1971 (Orbis antiquus, no.11).
  • Timaeus Locrus: De natura mundi et animae . Editio maior. Brill, Leiden 1972, ISBN 90-04-03505-2 (authoritative critical edition with German translation and compilation of source certificates with commentary)

Editing

  • Herodotus. A selection from recent research. 3., corrected u. Edition with a revised bibliography. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1982, ISBN 3-534-01125-2 (Ways of Research, Vol. 26).

Translations

  • (with Richard Harder ): Ovid: love poems. Latin and German . 1956. 7th edition Artemis and Winkler, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-7608-1567-7 .
  • Greek poetry in German translations. A selection. With notes and afterword . Reclam, Stuttgart 1964, ISBN 3-15-001921-4 (Reclam's Universal Library, 1921).
  • Hesiod: works and days . 2nd edition, DTV, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-423-02245-0 (dtv 2245).
  • Herodotus, Vol. 1. 1973. Vol. 2. edited and completed by Gisela Strasburger . 1983.

literature

  • Gebhard Kurz, Dietram Müller and Walter Nicolai (eds.): Gnomosyne. Human thought and action in early Greek literature. Festschrift for Walter Marg on his 70th birthday . Munich 1981, ISBN 3-406-08137-1 . (List of publications on pp. 319–324).
  • Georg Luck : Walter Marg [obituary]. In: Gnomon . Vol. 56, H. 7, 1984, pp. 669-671.
  • Walter Nicolai:  Marg, Walter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 151 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Johann Martin Thesz: Prose Styles and Translation Strategies: On the History and Relationship of German Thucydides and Herodotus Translations, in: Josefine Kitzbichler, Ulrike CA Stephan (ed.), Studies on the Practice of Translation of Ancient Literature, De Gruyter 2016, p. 82f

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