Walther Ludwig#

• 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

• 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

• 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

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