Klaus Alpers

Klaus Alpers (born September 27, 1935 in Lüneburg) is a German classical philologist.

Biography

After graduating from the Johanneum Gymnasium in Lüneburg, Klaus Alpers studied classical philology, ancient history and philosophy at the University of Hamburg from 1956. From 1960 to 1964, he was a scholarship holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. In 1964, he was awarded his doctorate with the dissertation Theognostos: Peri orthographias. Überlieferung, Quellen und Text der Kanones 1-84 with Hartmut Erbse. From 1964, he was a collaborator on the Hamburg Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (first on the Hippocrates Index, then on the Lexicon of Early Greek Epic, and finally, until 1989, alongside Volkmar Schmidt, as editor of the Index Hippocraticus). In 1971 he was appointed senior scientific advisor at the University of Hamburg. His habilitation took place in 1977 with the paper Das attizistische Lexikon des Oros. Untersuchung und kritische Ausgabe der Fragmente. In 1984, he was appointed university professor in Hamburg. He retired in 2000.

Alpers has been a member of the Danish Academy of Sciences since 1985, of whose Commission for the Corpus Lexicographorum Graecorum he has been a member since 1970, and of the Braunschweig Scientific Society (since 1999). In 2006 he was awarded the Order of Merit.

Works

• Theognostos: "Peri orthographias". Überlieferung, Quellen und Text der Kanones 1–84 (1964)
• Bericht über Stand und Methode der Ausgabe des Etymologicum genuinum (1969)
• Das attizistische Lexikon des Oros (1981)
• Altphilologen in Hamburg vom 17. bis 20. Jahrhundert (1990)
• Untersuchungen zu Johannes Sardianos und seinem Kommentar zu den Progymnasmata des Aphthonios (2009)
• Lüneburg und die Antike. Studien zur Rezeption antiker Stoffe im Humanismus des 16. Jahrhunderts in Lüneburg (2010)

External links

• Klaus Alpers at the University of Hamburg
• Works by Klaus Alpers at German National Library