Wolf Steidle
Wolf Steidle (born March 2, 1910 in Stuttgart , † March 6, 2003 in Munich ) was a German classical philologist .
Wolf Steidle, the son of a bookseller, studied classical philology at the universities of Würzburg , Kiel and Berlin . On 18 April 1939 he was with a dissertation on the Ars Poetica of Horace doctorate (speakers were John Stroux and Christian Jensen ). He then worked at the Institute for Indo-European Intellectual History in Munich, which was headed by Richard Harder . In addition, he held the winter semester 1941/1942 until winter semester 1944/1945 as a lecturer basic Latin courses at the University of Munich from.
After the war, Steidle worked at the University of Wurzburg, where he in 1951 with a record of Suetonius biographies habilitated . In 1958 he was appointed full-time professor for classical philology at the University of Innsbruck and in 1962 he was appointed full professor. In 1963 he moved to the University of Frankfurt am Main , where he worked until his retirement (1975).
Steidle was mainly a Latinist . His main research interests included Greek and Roman historiography, poetics, rhetoric , tragedy and comedy . He dealt with all epochs of Roman literature from the republic to late antiquity .
literature
- Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 18th edition (2001), p. 3144
- Robert Muth : Acta philologica Aenipontana . Volume 2 (1967), pp. 98–99 (picture and list of publications)
- Wilfried Stroh : Obituary for Wolf Steidle (1910-2003) . In: The ancient languages in lessons 50, 2 + 3/2003, pp. 10–12.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolf Steidle in the catalog of the German National Library
- Obituary for Wolf Steidle by Wilfried Stroh
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerhard Schott: Richard Harder, classical philologist, first interpreter of the leaflets of the "White Rose" , and the "Institute for Indo-European Spiritual History". In: Elisabeth Kraus (Ed.): The University of Munich in the Third Reich. Essays . Volume 2, Munich 2008. pp. 413-500 (here p. 448).
Focus on Greek studies : Hans von Arnim (1914–1921) | Karl Reinhardt (1923–1941) | Walter Nestle (1944–1945) | Karl Reinhardt (1946–1951) | Harald Patzer (1952–1978) | Gustav Adolf Seeck (1981–1999) | Thomas A. Schmitz (1999-2003) | Thomas Paulsen (since 2005)
Focus on Latin Studies : Walter F. Otto (1914–1934) | Erwin Wolff (1935–1962) | Walther Ludwig (1964–1970) | Christoff Neumeister (1972–2002) | Hans Bernsdorff (since 2003)
Third chair: Wolf Steidle (1963–1975)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steidle, wolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Steidle, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 6, 2003 |
| Place of death | Munich |