Heinz-Günther Nesselrath
Heinz-Günther Nesselrath (9 November 1957 in
German philologist
.
Career
Born in
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ("German Research Foundation"). He reached Habilitation
in 1987.
From 1992 to 2001 Nesselrath was a professor of
classical philology at the University of Bern. In 2001, he became a professor and researcher at University of Göttingen. One of his research interests is Plato's presentation of Atlantis in the dialogues Critias and Timaeus
.
Nesselrath regards Atlantis as an invention by Plato that must be understood as a parable or cautionary tale.[1]
Notes
- ^ Platon und die Erfindung von Atlantis. Leipzig-München 2002 (Lectio Teubneriana 11); Platon, Kritias. Übersetzung und Kommentar. Göttingen 2006.
External links
- Heinz-Günther Nesselrath in the German National Library catalogue
- Nesselrath at the University of Goettingen (in German)
References
Much of the content of this article comes from German-language Wikipedia article, accessed September 17, 2006.
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