 |
William M. Calder III Fellowship Past Recipients
2007
 American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation awarded the 2007 William M. Calder III Fellowship for Classical Studies to Dr. Stefan Schorn.
Dr. Schorn will work with Professor William W. Fortenbaugh (Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow 1976) at Rutgers University. Schorn is preparing a commentary on the fragments of Theophrastus’ treatise On Piety. This work contains significant descriptions of cultural and sacrificial practices in Greece and other areas, including Jewish sacrificial rites, that remain unexplored. Schorn will examine the implications of these texts for philosophy, culture, and religious history. He seeks to resolve numerous textual and exegetical problems in order to investigate the work in the context of peripatetic ethics, in the development of cults, in human/animal relationships in philosophical discourse, and in the framework of popular ideas. The text, to be provided with an exhaustive philological, philosophical and historical commentary, will be published by Brill publishers in the series of commentaries edited by William W. Fortenbaugh on the Theophrastus fragments.
Schorn studied Classical Philology, Ancient History, Greek and Latin Epigraphy and Greek Palaeography at the Universities of Bamberg and Rome. He received an M.A. in 1998 and a Ph.D. in 2002, both from the University of Bamberg. His dissertation on the Hellenistic biographer Satyrus of Callatis was published in 2004. Since 2003 he has been Assistant Professor at the University of Würzburg.
Schorn has studied in Italy and in England. Scholars have praised his earlier work as careful and thorough, involving high quality reconstruction of fragmentary texts coupled with outstanding commentary. In addition to his personal scholarship, Schorn has served as secretary of the international Plato Society.
2005, 2006
 American
Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation awarded the second
William M. Calder III Fellowship in July 2005 to Dr. Dirk Rohmann.
Dr. Rohmann received a one-year extension of the Calder Fellowship in July 2006.
Dr. Rohmann is conducting research at the University of Colorado,
hosted by Professor Noel Lenski of the university's Department
of Classics. Professor Lenski, who won a Humboldt Research Fellowship
to Munich in 2002, expressed gratitude to American Friends for the
Calder Fellowship, which offsets the contribution that the Humboldt
Foundation expects the host university to provide in support of
a Feodor Lynen Fellow. The grant frees Dr. Rohmann from other responsibilities
and thus facilitates pursuit of his research project.
Dr. Rohmann received his Ph.D. in Ancient History from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University
in Munich in 2004, after completing his dissertation on the evaluation
of political violence in the literature of the first century AD.
While in Colorado, he is researching the conflict between Christianity
and pagan religions in the fourth and fifth centuries AD, specifically
the polemics of Christian writers against pagan cults. Dr. Rohmann
is exploring whether the controversy was motivated primarily by
a sense of threat from rival religions or by the desire to convert
the pagan elites. This work addresses the intellectual history of
the religious conflicts of late Greco-Roman antiquity, a period
that shaped both the political and the cultural development of the
Christian Middle Ages and, ultimately, the modern world.
2004
 American
Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation awarded the first
William M. Calder III Fellowship in July 2004 to Dr. Gyburg Radke,
a Feodor Lynen Fellow conducting research at Harvard University's
Department of Classics when the award was made.
The selection committee described Dr. Radke as an exceptionally
qualified and remarkably productive young scholar: She completed
her MA in Greek and Latin Philology in 1999, finished her Ph.D.
at the University of Marburg under the supervision of Prof. Dr.
Arbogast Schmitt in less than two years, concluded the Habilitation
in 2003 and received the venia legendi, the official permission
to lecture. Dr. Radke's publications include three major books
and several articles. Both her dissertation and her Habilitation
deal with philosophical topics, the theory of numbers in ancient
Platonism and the organization of philosophy classes in the Platonic
schools. In her book on Euripides' Bacchae, Dr. Radke turns
to a new area of investigation—modern literary theory and
its application to ancient texts, a complex of issues that she continued
to pursue at Harvard, where she worked with Professors Albert Henrichs
and William Allan.
|
|
