Wolf-Lüder Liebermann

Wolf-Lüder Liebermann

Wolf-Lüder Liebermann (born January 30, 1941 in Gießen ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

After graduating from the humanistic Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium Mannheim (1960), Liebermann studied Protestant theology and at the same time, soon primarily, classical philology , comparative linguistics and philosophy at the Philipps University of Marburg and the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg (especially with Uvo Hölscher and Viktor Pöschl ). There he passed the state examination (Latin, Greek) in 1967. In 1968 he received a doctorate in Latin, Greek and comparative linguistics. He then worked as a research assistant at the Linguistics Department at Heidelberg University, then initially in the same position, later as Academic Adviser at the Philology Department at Heidelberg University (1969 research stay in London and Oxford , 1979/1980 one-year research stay at the University of Toronto ).

In 1982, Liebermann accepted the appointment to the Bethel / Bielefeld Church University as a professor of classical philology, since then he has also regularly given courses at Bielefeld University and taken on other functions related to the cooperation. In 1983 he completed his habilitation in Classical Philology, and in 1989 he was appointed as an adjunct professor. In 2000, Liebermann decided to re-qualify at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen , and in 2001 he was reappointed an extraordinary professor there. He has held numerous visiting and substitute professorships, for example at the universities of Bielefeld, Gießen, Tübingen , Graz , Saarbrücken and Basel .

Research priorities

His main areas of work are the Latin literature of the classical and post-classical period, especially poetry and here the tragedy writer Seneca , as well as literary theory and hermeneutics as well as ancient philosophy , especially the ethics of Marcus Tullius Cicero .

Web links

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar (KDG) 2017, 29th edition, p. 2149 (also online).