Wolfgang Hering

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Wolfgang Hering (born January 25, 1928 in Dresden , † August 6, 1986 in Rostock ; full name: Wolfgang Arno Hering ) was a German classical philologist .

Wolfgang Hering attended high school until February 1945 and was then first in the Reich Labor Service until 1946, then a war participant and then a prisoner of war. In 1946/47 he was able to attend secondary school again and graduate with the Abitur. After graduating from high school, he began studying classical philology , which he completed in 1951 with a diploma. He then became a lecturer and, from 1953, scientific assistant at the Institute for Classical Philology at the Wilhelm Pieck University Rostock (WPU). In November 1954 he received his doctorate in Rostock with a thesis on The Dialectic of Content and Form with Horace. Satires Book I and Epistola ad Pisones , the habilitation followed in June 1960 with the work Die Recensio der Caesarhandschriften . Hering was then appointed to the professorship for Prehistory and Classical Studies in the History Section at the WPU. In 1987 Gabriele Bockisch became his successor, but without becoming a professor.

Hering is best known as a specialist in Caesar's writings . His edition of C. Iulii Caesaris Commentarii rerum gestarum (Teubner, Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-322-00351-5 ) is considered to be one of the standard editions of this work.

Fonts

  • The Recensio of the Caesar manuscripts (= writings of the Section for Classical Studies / German Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Vol. 41). Academy, Berlin 1963.
  • The dialectic of content and form in Horace. Satires Book I and Epistola ad Pisones (= writings on the history and culture of antiquity. Vol. 20). Academy, Berlin 1979.

literature

  • Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 284.

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personal data
SURNAME Hering, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hering, Wolfgang Arno (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1986
Place of death Rostock