Walter Wimmel

Walter Wimmel (born September 27, 1922 in Krofdorf-Gleiberg ; † April 10, 2016 in Marburg ) was a German classical philologist .

Life and research

Walter Wimmel, the son of grammar school professor Wilhelm Wimmel, attended the grammar schools in Mosbach, Mannheim and Lahr / Black Forest and was drafted into the Wehrmacht in May 1941 after graduating. After military service and imprisonment, he began studying Classical Philology and Philosophy at the University of Freiburg in the winter semester 1945/46 . In 1948/1949 he spent two semesters at the University of Basel (with Peter von der Mühll , Karl Jaspers and Harald Fuchs ). On his return he was on 6 June 1950, the thesis observations on early Augustan poetry doctorate that Karl Buechner had suggested.

After his habilitation , Wimmel was hired as a university lecturer in Freiburg in 1957. His habilitation thesis was published in 1960 under the title Callimachos in Rome: The successor of his apologetic poetry in the Augustan period and shapes the view of ancient, especially Augustan Roman literature in its relationship and its dependence on Greek literature to this day. In 1962, Wimmel was appointed adjunct professor. In 1963 he moved to the Philipps University of Marburg , where he was given a full professorship for classical philology. He taught here until his retirement .

Walter Wimmel was mainly a Latinist . The focus of his research was Roman poetry from the Augustan period. He published numerous monographs and essays dealing with questions of genre, composition, motif and sources by the poets Tibullus , Virgil , Horace and others. a. employ.

On his 65th birthday, a volume with selected articles was published by Wimmel (1987); on his 75th birthday, a thematic commemorative publication with contributions that were dedicated to Walter Wimmel was published (1998). Another commemorative publication, which documents the contributions to an academic festival event on the occasion of Wimmel's 90th birthday and contains a complete list of his writings, was finally published in 2013.

Fonts

Editions

• Walter Wimmel (Ed.): Research on Roman literature. Festschrift for Karl Büchner's 60th birthday. Wiesbaden 1970.

Monographs

• Observations on early Augustan poetry . Freiburg 1950 (diss.)
• Callimachus in Rome. The follow-up to his apologetic poetry in the Augustan time . Freiburg 1957 (Habil.), Wiesbaden 1960 (Hermes individual writings, vol. 16).
• On the form of the Horazische Diatribensatire. Frankfurt am Main 1962.
• The early Tibullus. Munich 1968 (Studia et Testimonia Antiqua. Vol. 6).
• On the question of Virgil's poetic technique in the center of the Aeneis. The start of hostilities in Lazio . Marburg 1969.
• "Shepherd's War" and Arcadian Rome. Reducing media in Virgil Aeneid . Marburg 1973 (Treatises of the Marburg Learned Society. Vol. 7).
• The technical side of Caesar's company against Avaricum (BG 7.13 ff.) . Wiesbaden 1974 (Treatises of the humanities and social science class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz. Vol. 9/1973).
• The philologist Karl Büchner . Attempt to pay tribute to his sixty-fifth birthday (with a list of Karl Büchner's scientific publications) . Marburg 1975.
• Tibullus and Delia. First part. Tibullus Elegy 1.1 . Wiesbaden 1976 (Hermes individual writings. Vol. 37).
• Culture catches up with us. The importance of textuality for historical becoming . Wuerzburg 1981.
• The tragic poet L. Varius Rufus. On the question of his Augustism . Wiesbaden 1981 (Treatises of the humanities and social science class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz. Vol. 5/1981).
• Tibullus and Delia. Part two, Tibullus Elegy 1,2. Wiesbaden 1983 (Hermes individual writings. Vol. 47).
• The Bacchus Ode C. 3.25 of Horace . Stuttgart 1993 (Treatises of the humanities and social sciences class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz. Vol. 11/1993).
• Linguistic ambiguity in Horace . Marburg 1994 (Treatises of the Marburg Learned Society. Vol. 24).

Collections of articles and commemorative publications

• Klaus Kubusch (Ed.): Walter Wimmel. Collectanea. Augustanism and late republic. Wiesbaden 1987.
• Anna Elissa Radke (Ed.): Candide Index. Contributions to Augustan poetry. Festschrift for Walter Wimmel on his 75th birthday . Stuttgart 1998.
• Boris Dunsch / Felix M. Prokoph (eds.): On the long rope of antiquity. Contributions on the occasion of Walter Wimmel's 90th birthday . Heidelberg 2013.

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , 19th Edition (2003), p. 3708.
• Gregor Vogt-Spira: Laudation to Walter Wimmel . In: Boris Dunsch / Felix M. Prokoph (ed.): On the long rope of antiquity. Contributions on the occasion of Walter Wimmel's 90th birthday . Heidelberg, 2013, page 9 - . 13
• Boris Dunsch: In memoriam Prof. em. Dr. Walter Wimmel (1922–2016) , in: Forum Schule. Latin and Greek in Hesse (newsletter of the State Association of Hesse in the German Classical Philology Association) 64 (2017), pp. 6 - 8.

Web links

• Literature by Walter Wimmel in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Brigitte Kappl: The Classical Philology Seminar mourns Prof. Walter Wimmel. In: www.uni-marburg.de. Philipps University of Marburg - Classical Philology, archived from the original on June 11, 2016 ; accessed on June 11, 2016 .