Wendell Vernon Clausen

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Wendell Vernon Clausen (born April 2, 1923 in Coquille , Oregon , † October 12, 2006 in Belmont , Massachusetts ) was an American classical philologist .

Life

Wendell Vernon Clausen studied Classical and English Philology at the University of Washington and received his Bachelor's degree in 1945 . He completed his graduate studies at the University of Chicago , where he concentrated on the ancient sciences. After completing his master's degree, he worked on his doctoral thesis, which he completed in 1948 as a Ph.D. received his doctorate . In 1963 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Clausen got his first job at Amherst College , where he taught from 1948 to 1959. From 1959 he was Professor of Greek and Latin at Harvard University , from 1982 Victor S. Thomas Professor of Greek and Latin , from 1988 Pope Professor of Greek and Latin until his retirement (1993). In addition, he was Professor of Comparative Literature from 1984 to 1993 . At the University of California at Berkeley he was Sather Professor in 1981/1982 . Clausen died in October 2006 of complications from a stroke he suffered in August 2005.

Clausen's research focus was classical Latin poetry, on which he wrote critical editions, commentaries and accompanying essays and monographs.

Fonts (selection)

  • Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires .
  • Erchanberti Frisingensis Tractatus super Donatum . Chicago 1948 (dissertation)
  • A. Persi Flacci Saturarum liber: accedit vita . Oxford 1956
  • A. Persi Flacci et D. June Iuvenalis Saturae edidit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit WV Clausen . Oxford 1959
  • with Francis Richard David Goodyear , Edward J. Kenney , John A. Richmond : Appendix Vergiliana recognoverunt et adnotatione critica instruxerunt . Oxford 1967
  • with Edward J. Kenney: The Cambridge History of Classical Literature. Vol. 2: Latin literature . Cambridge 1982
  • Virgil's Aeneid and the Tradition of Hellenistic Poetry . Berkeley / Los Angeles 1987, ISBN 0-520-05791-0 ( Sather Classical Lectures 51)
  • A Commentary on Virgil, Eclogues . New York 1994, ISBN 0-19-814916-6 .
  • Virgil's “Aeneid”: Decorum, Allusion and Ideology . Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-77711-6 ( contributions to antiquity 162)
  • with James EG Zetzel : Commentum Cornuti in Persium recognoverunt et adnotatione critica instruxerunt . Munich / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-598-71578-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Clausen, Wendell Vernon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clausen, Wendell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Coquille , Oregon
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 2006
Place of death Belmont , Massachusetts