Heinz-Günther Nesselrath

Heinz- Günther Nessel Rath ( born November 9, 1957 in Titz - Rödingen at Jülich) is a German classical philologist.

Life

Heinz -Günther Nesselrath studied from 1976 to 1981 Classics and Ancient History at the University of Cologne (including with Rudolf Kassel). On 7 February 1981, he was with the dissertation " Lucian's parasite dialogue. Investigations and comment " doctorate. From 1981 to 1989 he was a research associate at the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Cologne. On November 11, 1987, he habilitated with the publication "The Attic Middle Comedy. Their position in the ancient literary criticism and literary history. " After his habilitation he was until 1992 Heisenberg Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

Until his appointment as full professor Nesselrath took professor at the Universities of Göttingen (SS 1988), casting (WS 1989/90 ), Munster (SS 1990) and Bonn (WS 1990/91 ). In 1991 he received the Academy Award of the North Rhine- Westphalian Academy of Sciences. In autumn 1992 Nesselrath followed a call to full-time - Associate Professor of Classical Philology with special reference to the Greek at the University of Bern, 1997, he was appointed a full professor there. For the summer semester 2001 he was appointed professor at the University of Göttingen to the chair of Classical Philology / Gräzistik as the successor of Klaus Nickau. In the summer semester 2004 he was Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.

Since 2002 Nesselrath is a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. He is married to the Swiss classical archaeologist Balbina Bäbler.

Research priorities

A theme of his research is the Plato's Atlantis dialogues Timaeus and Critias. Nesselrath keeps Atlantis - as before him, Pierre Vidal -Naquet, but also the " silent majority " of the antiquarians of all ages - for a parable to understand the invention of Plato and referred to them as " ancient science fiction " because it a rating based on science fiction history is.

He is also one of the leading German Lucian experts and published in this context, a monograph on the parasite dialog Lucian ( emerged from his dissertation, see above); see also his contributions to Lucian: " Lies friends" in the edition of the series SAPERE ( Scripta Antiquitatis posterioris ad Ethicam Religionemque pertinentia ). which was published to Volume 9 of the Scientific Book Society, since volume 10 by Mohr Siebeck.

Nesselrath is also editor of the introduction to the Greek philology (Stuttgart / Leipzig 1997), which was translated into Greek in 2001 and 2004 into Italian.

Writings (selection )

• With Hermann Reinbothe: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Novissima Sinica - the latest from China. Edition of the text with translation and commenting offerings. Cologne 1979
• Lucian's dialogue parasites. Investigations and comment. Berlin / New York 1985 ( Studies on ancient literature and history 22; extended version of the dissertation )
• The Attic Middle Comedy. Their position in the ancient literary criticism and literary history. Berlin / New York 1990 ( Studies on ancient literature and history 36; habilitation thesis )
• Ungeschehenes events: near- episodes ' in Greek and Roman epic poetry from Homer to late antiquity. Stuttgart 1992 ( Contributions to the Archaeology 27)
• Martin Ebner, Holger Gzella, Serious Ribat: Lucian: The lies and friends. Introduced, translated and provided with interpretive essays. Darmstadt 2001
• Plato and the invention of Atlantis. Leipzig / Munich 2002 ( Lectio Teubneriana 11)
• With Balbina Bäbler, Maximilian Forschner, Albert de Jong: Dion of Prusa: Human Community and divine order. The Borysthenes speech. Darmstadt 2003
• Plato, Critias. Translation and Commentary. Göttingen 2006
• With Balbina Bäbler: Ars et Verba. The art descriptions Callistratus, introduction, text, translation, notes, archaeological comment. Munich / Leipzig in 2006
• Okko Behrends with Klaus, Stefan Frey Berger, Johannes Hahn, Martin Wallraff, Hans -Ulrich Wiemer. religion for freedom, justice and tolerance: Libanius ' oration for the preservation of the pagan temples Introduced, translated and provided with interpretive essays. Tübingen 2011
• Libanius. Witness a dwindling world. Stuttgart 2012

• Rudolf Kassel: Small fonts. Berlin / New York 1991
• Introduction to Greek philology. Stuttgart / Leipzig in 1997
• Dion of Prusa, the philosopher and his image. Tübingen 2009 ( SAPERE 13)
• Cornutus, The Greek Gods. Tübingen 2009 ( SAPERE 14)
• Plutarch, On the daimonion of Socrates, human liberation, divine guidance and philosophy. Tübingen 2010 ( SAPERE 16)