Wolfgang Dieter Lebek
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Wolfgang Dieter Lebek (born March 29, 1938 in Bad Reinerz ) is a German classical philologist .
Wolfgang Dieter Lebek studied Classical Philology at the University of Cologne , where he received his doctorate on June 13, 1969 with the dissertation on the rhetorical theory of archaism . His dissertation was published in an expanded form in 1970 under the title Verba prisca: The beginnings of archaizing in Latin eloquence and historiography ( Hypomnemata 25). After his habilitation, he was appointed adjunct professor in 1971. 1972/1973 he was a fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University . His habilitation thesis was published in 1976 under the title Lucan's Pharsalia: Dichtungsstruktur und Zeitrechte ( Hypomnemata 44).
After one semester as Maître de conference associé at the University of Clermont-Ferrand , he went to the University of California, Los Angeles as a visiting professor for two years in 1976 . In 1979 he accepted a professorship for Classical Philology at the University of Augsburg . In 1984 he moved to Cologne, where he retired in 2003. Lebek has been a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences since 1986 and a member of the Academia Europaea since 2000 .
In 2001/2002 Lebek carried out a study on students at the University of Cologne, with which he proved that holders of a Latinum have a higher level of reading skills for demanding texts than other students.
literature
- Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , Edition 2001, Volume 2, p. 1839.
Web links
- Literature by Wolfgang Dieter Lebek in the catalog of the German National Library
- Wolfgang Dieter Lebek at the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Page by Lebek at the University of Cologne
Remarks
- ^ Wolfgang Dieter Lebek: The Latinum and the quality of German university students. Brief report on a statistical study. In: Forum Classicum 2/2004, pp. 108–113 online version (PDF; 5.7 MB)
Wolfgang Dieter Lebek (1979–1984) | Wolfgang Huebner (1984–1986) | Marion Lausberg (1986–2012)
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Focus on Greek Studies : Josef Kroll (1922–1956) | Albrecht Dihle (1958–1974) | Rudolf Kassel (1975–1991) | Bernd Manuwald (1992–2008) | René Nünlist (since 2010)
Focus on Latin Studies : Günther Jachmann (1925–1952) | Hellfried Dahlmann (1953–1971) | Clemens Zintzen (1972–1994) | Wolfram Ax (1996-2010) | Jan Felix Gaertner (since 2013)
Classical Philology and Papyrology : Reinhold Merkelbach (1961–1983) | Wolfgang Dieter Lebek (1984-2003) | Jürgen Hammerstaedt (since 2004)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lebek, Wolfgang Dieter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lebek, Wolf-Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Reinerz |