Thomas G. Rosenmeyer

Thomas Gustav Rose Meyer ( born April 3, 1920 in Hamburg, † February 6, 2007 in Oakland, California ) was a German -American classical scholar. Until his retirement in 1990 he was Professor of Classical Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Rosemeyer's research interest was in the literature of classical Greece, and in particular the philosopher Plato.

Life

Rose Meyer was born in Hamburg, where he attended from 1930 to 1938 the grammar school of Johanneums. In 1939 he fled from the Nazis to London where he enrolled at the School of Oriental and African Studies. In anticipation of an imminent invasion of German troops in 1940, many alleged German spies were arrested in England; Rosemeyer was placed in an internment camp in Canada. There he met the later classicists Martin Ostwald and the philosopher Emil Fackenheim. After Rosemeyer was released from internment in 1942, he studied Classical Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and graduated in 1944 with a bachelor's degree. He then earned his master's degree at University of Toronto and in 1945 for his doctorate at Harvard University. His first teaching position he took over in 1947 at the University of Iowa; meantime he translated Bruno Snell's The Discovery of mind and worked on his dissertation. With the work "The Isle of Critias " on Plato's Atlantis Rosemeyer gained his doctorate in 1949.

After a short stay at Smith College ( 1952-55 ) Rose Meyer was appointed professor at the University of Washington, where he was appointed full professor. Inspired by his colleague Paul Friedlander (UCLA ) and Hermann Frankel (Stanford ) to Rosemeyer now turned more to the comparative literature ( comparative ). In 1966 he was appointed to the University of California at Berkeley. There he functioned at times as dean of both the Department of Classics ( 1973-75 ) and the Department of Comparative Literature ( 1979-81 ). His retirement in 1990, then rose Meyer received a " Berkeley Citation", the highest award for faculty of the university.

In addition to guest professorships at various universities such as Princeton (1975) and Harvard (1984 ) was Rosemeyer during his career numerous awards to participate: two Guggenheim Fellowships, an NEH Fellowship, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

Rosemeyer died the age of 86 at his home in Oakland, California.

Work (selection)

Rosemeyer mainly dealt with the classical Greek literature. His early work includes numerous articles on Plato. Later, Rose Meyer also turned to Latin literature.

  • " Gorgias, Aeschylus and apate ", in: American Journal of Philology 76, 1955, pp. 225-60.
  • "Plato 's Atlantis Myth: Timaeus or Critias ", in: Phoenix 10, 1956, pp. 163-72.
  • " Hesiod and Historiography ( Erga 106-201 ) ", in: Hermes 85, 1957, pp. 257-85.
  • The Masks of Tragedy: Essays on Six Greek Dramas, Austin 1963.
  • The Green Cabinet: Theocritus and the European Pastoral Lyric, Berkeley in 1969.
  • " Act of choice and decision-making process in the ancient tragedy ", in: Poetica 10, 1978, p 1-24.
  • " Drama ", in: MI Finley (ed.), The Legacy of Greece, Oxford 1981, p 120-54.
  • The Art of Aeschylus, Berkeley in 1982.
  • Deina Ta Polla: A Classicists ' Checklist of Twenty Literary - Critical Positions ( = Arethusa Monographs 12), Buffalo 1988.
  • Senecan Drama and Stoic Cosmology, Berkeley in 1989.
  • " Name - setting and name -using: Elements of Socratic in Foundationalism Plato's Cratylus ," in Ancient Philosophy 18, 1998, pp. 41-60.
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