Otto Zwierlein#
| Membership Number: | 712 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004 Emeritus, Universität Bonn
- 1979 - 2004 o. Professor für Klassische Philologie, Universität Bonn
- 1971 - 1979 o. Professor für Klassische Philologie, Universität Hamburg
- 1970 Habilitation für Klassische und Mittellateinische Philologie, FU Berlin
- 1965 Dr. phil. Klassische Philologie, Freie Universität Berlin
Fields of Scholarship
- First Epistle of Clement
- Antique and middel Latin epic
- Latin comedies (Plautus and Terenz)
- New Testament (Dating)
- Christian Persecutions (Antiquity)
- Ignatius of Antioch
- Seneca's tragedies
Honours and Awards
- 1980 member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
- 1986 Nellie Wallace Lecturer, University Oxford
- 1990 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1990 - 1991 Visiting Mellon Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study Princeton
- 1991 Corr. Fellow of the British Academy
- 1998 Ord. Member of the Nordrhein-Westfälischen Academy of Sciences
