Walter Burkert - Curriculum vitae#
Obituary, Christoph Riedweg, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 13.3.2015 (in German)
- Study of classical philology, history and philosophy, University of Erlangen and Munich, 1950-1954
- Dr. phil. University Erlangen 1955
- Assistent, University Erlangen, 1957-1961
- Habilitation, University Erlangen, 1961
- Privatdozent, University Erlangen, 1961-1966
- Junior Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C. 1965-1966
- Professor of Classical Philology, Technische Universität Berlin, 1966-1969
- Guestprofessor, Harvard University, 1968
- Professor of Classical Philology, bes. Griechisch, University Zürich, 1969-1996
- Sather Professor of Classical Literature, University of California at Berkeley, 1977
- Carl Newell Jackson Lectures, Harvard University, 1982
- Dean of the Philosophical Faculty I, University Zurüch, 1986-1988
- Guestprofessor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1988
- Gifford Lectures, St.Andrews, Scotland, 1989
- Emeritus 1996