Jürgen Leonhardt
Jürgen Leonhardt (born 12 August 1957) is a German classical philologist. He taught at the universities of Rostock, Marburg and at the University of Tübingen, there from 2004. He has been dean of the faculty of humanities there from 2010. His standard work about the history of Latin was translated into French and English.
Life
Leonhardt was born in
From 2008, Leonhardt served as dean of the Faculty of Cultural Studies. After being elected merger commissioner in July 2009, he prepared the merger of this faculty with two others to form a new faculty of humanities. As a result, he was elected dean of the new faculty in 2010.[1]
Leonhardt's research interests include Latin and Greek literature from
His 2009 standard work Latein. Geschichte einer Weltsprache was translated into French by Bertrand Vacher in 2010 as La grande histoire du latin,[4] and into English as Latin : Story of a World Language by Kenneth Kronenberg, published by Harvard University Press in 2013.[5][6] A reviewer summarised that the book "outlines the changing uses of the Latin language from its first literary attestations to the present day", in chronology over the language of the Roman empire, then the Carolingian Renaissance, and finally a period when fluency in spoken Latin deteriorated but Latin was still part of education. She thought that the book's breadth and "accessible and engaging style" made it accessible to a public even outside academia.[7]
Personal life
Leonhardt is married; the couple has three children.[1]
Publications
Leonhardt's publications include:[1][8]
- Dimensio syllabarum. Studien zur lateinischen Prosodie- und Verslehre von der Spätantike bis zur frühen Renaissance. Mit einem ausführlichen Quellenverzeichnis bis zum Jahr 1600. Göttingen 1989 (ISBN 3-525-25191-2.
- Phalloslied und Dithyrambos. Aristoteles über den Ursprung des griechischen Dramas. Heidelberg 1991 (Abhandlungen der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse 1991,4) ISBN 3-533-04353-3.
- Ciceros Kritik der Philosophenschulen. Munich 1999 (ISBN 3-406-44729-5.
- Latein. Geschichte einer Weltsprache. Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-56898-5.
- translated into French by Bertrand Vacher: La grande histoire du latin. Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-271-08694-5.
- Translated in English by Kenneth Kronenberg: Latin. Story of a World Language. ISBN 978-0-674-05807-1.
- translated into French by Bertrand Vacher: La grande histoire du latin. Paris 2010,
As editor:
- Melanchthon und das Lehrbuch des 16. Jahrhunderts. Begleitband zur Ausstellung im Kulturhistorischen Museum Rostock, 25 April until 13 July 1997. Rostock 1997, ISBN 3-86009-118-2.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Jürgen Leonhardt". University of Tübingen. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
- ^ a b c d "Prof. Dr. Jürgen Leonhardt" (PDF). Landesverband Hessen im Deutschen Altphilologenverband (DAV) (in German). 2004. pp. 5, 11. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
- ^ "Jürgen Leonhardt / 1957" (in German). Carus-Verlag. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
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- ISBN 9780674058071. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
- ^ Grafton, Anthony (8 January 2015). "Not Dead Yet". London Review of Books. 37 (1). Retrieved 29 December 2022.
- ^ Ruppeo, Antonia (21 July 2014). "Latin: Story of a World Language (First published 2009; translated by Kenneth Kronenberg)". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
- ^ "Leonhardt, Jürgen" (in German). University of Rostock. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
External links
- Latin: Story of a World Language" Lecture by Prof. Jürgen Leonhardt (Columbia University, 2015) on YouTube