Wolfgang Rösler

Wolfgang Rösler (born July 4, 1944 in Aussig ) is a German classical philologist .

Wolfgang Rösler received his doctorate in 1969 from the Technical University of Berlin . The subject of his dissertation was reflexes of pre-Socratic thought in Aeschylus . 1977 followed the habilitation at the University of Konstanz with the work poet and group. An investigation into the conditions and the historical function of early Greek poetry using the example of Alkaios . Then Rösler was Professor of Classical Philology in Constance. From 1979 to 1984 Rösler was a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG). From 1994 to 2009 Rösler taught as a professor of Greek studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He is a member of the sub-project “Translation of Antiquity” in the Collaborative Research Center 644 “Transformations of Antiquity” of the DFG and co-editor of the journal Philologus .

Rösler deals with orality and literacy in ancient Greece, anthropological and mentality-historical aspects of early Greek culture, early Greek poetry, Greek tragedy, the pre-Socratics, Greek historiography, literary theory, the history of the impact of ancient literature and the history of science.

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Reflexes of pre-Socratic thinking in Aeschylus , Hain, Meisenheim 1970 ( Contributions to Classical Philology , no.37)
Poet and group. A study of the conditions and the historical function of early Greek poetry using the example of Alkaios , Fink, Munich 1980 (Theory and History of Literature and the Fine Arts, Vol. 50) ISBN 3-7705-1754-7
Polis and tragedy. Functional historical considerations on an ancient literary genre , Universitätsverlag Konstanz, Konstanz 1980 (Konstanzer Universitätsreden, 138) ISBN 3-87940-174-8
Walter Burkert: Kleine Schriften 7. Tragica et Historica (ed.), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007 ISBN 3-525-25274-9

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SURNAME	Rösler, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH	4th July 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aussig