Wolfgang Kofler

Wolfgang Kofler at the Federal Congress of the German Classical Philology Association 2010 in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Wolfgang Kofler (born September 19, 1970 in Bozen ) is an Italian classical philologist .

Life

After attending the Franciscan high school in Bozen , Kofler studied classical philology at the Universities of Innsbruck and Tübingen from 1989 to 1994 , which he completed with a thesis on the Apollo hymn of Callimachus . After doing his community service in 1994/1995, he deepened his studies at the University of Heidelberg . From 1996 to 2001 he worked as a teacher for Latin, Greek and German at humanistic grammar schools in Bozen and Meran . In 2001 he was in Innsbruck with the dissertation Aeneas and Virgil . PhD studies on the poetological dimension of the Aeneid .

After that, Kofler continued to work as a teacher at the humanistic grammar school in Bozen, but at the same time as a university assistant at the Institute for Languages ​​and Literatures at the University of Innsbruck, where he was co-editor of the Scoreboard for Classical Studies . In 2008 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the subject of Epigrammata Bobiensia. Text, translation and commentary . From September 2009 to September 2012 he held a W3 professorship for Classical Philology ( Latin Studies ) at the University of Freiburg . Since October 2012 he has been Professor of Classical Philology with a focus on Neo-Latin at the University of Innsbruck. In July 2013 he was appointed a member of the Quality Assurance Council for Pedagogue Education in Austria.

Kofler's main research areas are Alexandrian and Augustan poetry, the epic, the epigram, neo-Latin, the history of reception and specialist didactics.

Fonts

• Aeneas and Virgil. Investigations into the poetological dimension of the Aeneid (= Library of Classical Ancient Studies . Volume 111). Winter, Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 3-8253-1330-1 .
• with Martin Korenjak , Florian Schaffenrath (eds.): Summit of Time - Mountains in texts from five millennia. Karlheinz Töchterle on his 60th birthday. Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 2010, ISBN 978-3-7930-9636-8 .

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Kofler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage at the University of Innsbruck
• Homepage at the University of Freiburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pindar in Cyrene and Alexandria: to the "Apollonhymnos" of Callimachus. Catalog card for the diploma thesis by Wolfgang Kofler at the University of Innsbruck, 1994. In: obvsg.at. Austrian Library Association, accessed on September 13, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Dissertation by Wolfgang Kofler (University of Innsbruck, 2001)
3. ^ Habilitation thesis by Wolfgang Kofler (University of Innsbruck, 2007)