Wolfgang Haase (philologist)

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Wolfgang Haase (born June 8, 1940 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German classical philologist .

Wolfgang Haase studied classical philology and ancient history at the University of Frankfurt and the University of Tübingen . He received his doctorate in 1971 in Tübingen with a dissertation on the philosopher Nicomachus of Gerasa and his work on arithmetic ( Nicomachus of Gerasa: Environment, Life, Work, Effect ). He taught at the University of Tübingen (full professor from 1987) and until his retirement in 2016 as professor at Boston University (before that from 1987 adjunct professor and from 1993 associate professor), where he headed the Institute for the Classical Tradition from 1991 to 2013 .

In 1978 Haase was visiting professor at the University of Stuttgart, 1985 in Jena and in the same year at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Together with Hildegard Temporini, Haase was editor-in-chief of the mammoth project Rise and Fall of the Roman World (ANRW), a series of manuals published by De Gruyter , in which 89 volumes were published from 1968 to 1999. He also edited the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) from 1994 to 2011 .

Haase deals with the transmission and reception of antiquity, ancient philosophy and science, Greek and Roman rulers, historiography in antiquity and the Renaissance.

Fonts (selection)

  • Investigations on Nicomachus of Gerasa. Tübingen 1982 (dissertation).
  • as ed. with Hildegard Temporini: Rise and decline of the Roman world. De Gruyter Berlin / New York 1968ff.
  • with Hildegard Temporini: 'Rise and Fall of the Roman World.' A report . In: Tübinger Universitätszeitung , Volume 36, 1987, pp. 12-13.
  • Antique reception - a new discipline? , In: Tübinger Universitätszeitung , Volume 53, 1992, pp. 8-9.
  • America and the Classical Tradition , in: Wolfgang Haase, Meyer Reinhold (ed.), The Classical Tradition and the Americas , Volume I.1, De Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, pp. V – xxxiii.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dates of birth Vademecum of the historical sciences , Steiner Verlag, 1998, p.
personal data
SURNAME Haase, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main