Walther Ludwig#
Membership Number: | 713 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
Elected: | 1989 |
Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Homepage(s): | http://www.uni-hamburg.de/igrlat/personal/walther_ludwig.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005 Cassamarca Foundation Visiting Professor, University of Western Australia, Perth
- 1994 Professor emeritus University of Hamburg
- 1992 - 1994 Dean of the Faculty for Historical Studies
- 1976 - 1994 Professor for Classical Studies
- 1971 - 1976 Chairman of the Department of Greek and Latin, Columbia University, New York
- 1970 - 1976 Professor of Greek and Latin, Columbia University, New York
- 1966 - 1970 Professor for Classical Studies, University of Frankfurt/Main
- 1964 - 1976 Director of the Institute for Classical Studies, University of Frankfurt/Main
- 1966 - 1967 Visiting Professor of Classics, Stanford University, Palo Alto
- 1964 - 1966 Associate Professor for Classical Studies, University of Frankfurt/Main
- 1961 - 1964 Reader in Classics, University of Munich
- 1959 - 1961 Lecturer in Classics, University of Munich
- 1955 - 1958 Lecturer in Classics, Free University of Berlin
Fields of Scholarship
- Greek tragedy and comedy
- Hellenistic epigrams
- Roman comedy
- Horace
- Ovid
- Prudentius
- Edition and interpretation
- Structure and intertextuality
- Latin literature in Early modern times
- Humanism and Renaissance research
- Latin texts relevant for the history of religion, art, medicine and university
- History of Classical scholarship
- Classical studies in the time of the German National Socialism
- Latin in modern society and in scholarship of our times
- South German regional history and genealogy
Honours and Awards
- 2009 Carl Friedich Gauß medal pro summis literarum meritis of the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft
- 2006 22nd Annual Tracy Lecture, University of Illinois at Chicago
- 2004 Joachim Jungius medal for scholarly excellence of the Joachim Jungius Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Hamburg
- Member of the German Academies of Erfurt, Göttingen and Hamburg and of the Society of Scholars in Braunschweig
- Honorary member of the Polish Philological Society
- 1989 - 1994 Vice President of the Féderation International des Associations des Études Classiques
- 1988 - 1991 President of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies
- 1978 - 1983 President of the Mommsen Gesellschaft
- 1974 Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societes
- 1970 Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, New Jersey
- 1962 Junior Fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington D.C.
- 1955 Ph. D. University of Tübingen