Hans-Joachim Newiger (1 April 1925 – 26 December 2011) was a German classical

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

Life

Born in

Königsberg Königsberg (, ) was the historic Prussian city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. Königsberg was founded in 1255 on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades, and was named ...

, Newiger was appointed on 21 December 1953 at the

University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in ...

with his Dissertation ''Metaphern und Chorpersonifikationen bei Aristophanes'', which was published in 1957 in extended form under the title ''Metapher und Allegorie. Studien zu Aristophanes'' (2000 reprint). In 1955/56 he received the . His

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...

was completed in 1968 at the University of Kiel under Hans Diller and with a study of the writing of

Gorgias Gorgias (; grc-gre, Γοργίας; 483–375 BC) was an ancient Greek sophist, pre-Socratic philosopher, and rhetorician who was a native of Leontinoi in Sicily. Along with Protagoras, he forms the first generation of Sophists. Several doxogr ...

about the non-being. From 1969 to 1971 he was professor of classical philology at the

TU Berlin The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was ...

. In 1971 he was appointed to the chair of at the newly founded

University of Konstanz The University of Konstanz (german: Universität Konstanz) is a university in the city of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its main campus was opened on the Gießberg in 1972 after being founded in 1966. The university is Germany's ...

which he held until his retirement in 1992 in Bielefeld where he died on 26 December 2011 at the age of 86. Newiger was one of the leading

Aristophanes Aristophanes (; grc, Ἀριστοφάνης, ; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme In Ancient Greece, a deme or ( grc, δῆμος, plural: demoi, δημοι) was a suburb or a subdivision of Athens and other city-states ...

experts. He was a corresponding member of the

Deutsches Archäologisches Institut The German Archaeological Institute (german: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, ''DAI'') is a research institute in the field of archaeology (and other related fields). The DAI is a "federal agency" under the Federal Foreign Office of Germany ...

Publications

* ''Drama und Theater. Ausgewählte Schriften zum griechischen Drama'', ed. by Michael Erler, Martin Hose, Bernhard Zimmermann, Stuttgart 1996 (Drama Beiheft 2). * ''Die Orestie und das Theater''.''Die Orestie und das Theater''
on WorldCat

Literature

* : ''Hans-Joachim Newiger †''. In ''

Gnomon A gnomon (; ) is the part of a sundial that casts a shadow. The term is used for a variety of purposes in mathematics and other fields. History A painted stick dating from 2300 BC that was excavated at the astronomical site of Taosi is the ol ...

''. Volume 84 (2012), (with picture)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Newiger, Hans-Joachim German philologists Technical University of Berlin faculty University of Konstanz faculty University of Kiel alumni 1925 births 2011 deaths Writers from Königsberg