Michael von Albrecht#
| Membership Number: | 1740 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 1996 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1981 Visiting member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
- 1981 Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam
- 1964 - 1998 Professor of classical philology at the University of Heidelberg
- 1963 - 1964 Dozent at the Universität Tübingen
Fields of Scholarship
- Ancient music
- Roman literature and its reception
- History
- Comparative literature
- Virgil and Ovid translations
Honours and Awards
- 1998 Honorary Doctorate from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- 2004 Johann Heinrich Voss Award for excellent translation
- 2012 Accademico ordinario della Classe di Lettere e Arti dell‘ Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana (Mantova)
- 2014 Dragmanov-Medaille of the University of Kiev
