Manfred Fuhrmann
Manfred Fuhrmann ( born June 23, 1925 in Hiddesen near Detmold, † January 12, 2005 in Überlingen am Bodensee) was a German classical scholar.
Life
The doctor's son studied after graduating from the high school in Detmold Leopoldinum classical philology, law, philosophy and theology in Freiburg im Breisgau and suffering, and in 1953 Dr. phil. doctorate. In 1959 he qualified as a professor in Freiburg, where he received his first lectureship in the same year. In 1962 he accepted a position as full professor at the University of Kiel in 1966 and another to the newly founded University of Konstanz, where he held the chair of Latin Studies until his retirement in 1990. From 1964 he participated in the meetings of the interdisciplinary research group " poetics and hermeneutics " part. In addition, Fuhrmann was a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Heidelberg.
His successor in Constance Reinhart Herzog, after his death, Barbara Feichtinger -Zimmermann.
Work
The Latinist Fuhrmann was regarded as one of the preeminent classical scholars of his generation and has worked in a wide variety of classical archeology. He was, in addition to his philological studies accurate translator with great linguistic sensitivity. Between 1970 and 1982 he published translations of Marcus Tullius Cicero's speeches in all seven volumes, for which he was recognized equally in classical philologists, historians and specialists in German. In 1990 he was awarded the Johann Heinrich Voss Award for translation of the German Academy for Language and Literature in Darmstadt. 1986 was followed by translations of the works of Horace.
In addition, Fuhrmann wrote biographies of Cicero (Cicero and the Roman Republic) and Seneca ( Seneca and Nero - A Biography ), who also found great recognition for classicists and ancient historians. Early on itself Fuhrmann dealt with the Latin literature of late antiquity, which was hardly noticed in Germany for a long time.
In addition, Fuhrmann sat in his research intensively on the idea of Europe as well as the tradition of education and educational canons as a cultural identity of Europe apart, he also became known to a non-specialist public through his controversies with the Anglisten Dietrich Schwanitz.
In addition, Fuhrmann was intensely occupied with the history and practice of teaching classical languages , referring again and again in essays and lectures on didactic problems and orientations of the Didactics of Latin and Greek teaching position.
Writings (selection )
- Articles for various encyclopedias (such as the article Ammianus Marcellinus, Tacitus, among others in The Little Pauly ).