Wolfgang Hübner (classical philologist)

Wolfgang Huebner (born April 18, 1939 in Hanover ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

Wolfgang Hübner studied from 1958 classical philology, comparative linguistics and Romance studies at the universities of Munich , Paris and Tübingen , where he worked with Ernst Zinn in 1965 with the dissertation Dirae in the Roman epic. On the relationship between bird demons and prodigies was a doctorate . He then deepened his studies for a year in Toulouse, where he worked as Assistant de langue allemande at the Lycée Berthelot. After completing his legal clerkship in Freiburg im Breisgau and participating in a school trial at the Birklehof reform pedagogical school , Hübner worked on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich from 1968 to 1971 . After a three-year habilitation scholarship , Hübner went to the University of Venice as a lecturer for the German Academic Exchange Service for German language and literature . In 1976 he returned to Germany and became an assessor for high school teaching at the Gymnasium am Fredenberg in Salzgitter .

From 1977 onwards, Hübner worked exclusively in the university service. First as an academic councilor (from 1979 senior councilor) for classical philology at the University of Trier , in 1982 as a visiting lecturer at the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail . In 1984 he completed his habilitation at the University of Trier with Hans-Otto Kröner . In the same year he received a C3 professorship for Classical Philology with a focus on Latin at the University of Augsburg . In 1986 he moved to the University of Münster as a full professor for classical philology (with a focus on Latin studies) , where he retired in 2004. In 2006 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bologna .

Fonts (selection)

• Dirae in the Roman epic. About the relationship between bird demons and prodigies . Hildesheim / New York 1970 ( Spudasmata 21; Tübingen dissertation)
• The characteristics of the signs of the zodiac in ancient times. Their representation and use with special consideration of Manilius . Wiesbaden 1981 (Tübingen habilitation thesis, partial print); also Wiesbaden 1982 (= Sudhoffs Archiv. Supplement 22).
• Zodiacus Christianus. Jewish-Christian adaptations of the zodiac from antiquity to the present . Koenigstein / Ts. 1983
• Varros instrumentum vocale in the context of ancient specialist sciences . Wiesbaden 1984
• The terms “astrology” and “astronomy” in antiquity: word history and science systematics. With a hypothesis on the term "Quadrivium" . Stuttgart 1990
• The Dodecatropus of Manilius (Manil. 2, 856-970) . Stuttgart 1995
• Space, time and social role-play of the four cardinal points in the ancient catarch horoscopy . Munich 2004
• Crater liberi. Gates of heaven and zodiac . Munich 2006
• Body and cosmos. Investigations into the iconography of zodiacal melothesia . Wiesbaden 2013

Editing

• Wilhelm Heinses' translation of Petron. Source-critical reprint of the first edition 1773 with text-critical-exegetical commentary . Two volumes, Frankfurt am Main 1987 ( Studies in Classical Philology 16)
• Degrees and districts of the zodiac signs. The anonymous treatise De stellis fixis, in quibus gradibus oriuntur signorum . Source-critical edition with commentary . Two volumes, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1995
• Claudii Ptolemaei Opera quae exstant omnia. Vol. 3.1: Apotelesmatika . post F. Boll et Ae. Boer secundis curis edidit Wolfgang Hübner. Stuttgart 1998
• with Klaus Stähler : Iconography and Iconology. Interdisciplinary Colloquium, Münster 2001 . Munster 2004 ( Eikon 8)
• Manilius "Astronomica", Book V . Two volumes, Berlin / New York 2010

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Huebner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wolfgang Hübner at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster