Georg Nicolaus Knauer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Georg Nicolaus Knauer

German born american scholar of Latin literature

Date of Birth: 26-Feb-1926

Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany

Date of Death: 28-Oct-2018

Profession: university teacher, classical philologist

Nationality: United States, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Georg Nicolaus Knauer

  • Georg Nicolaus Knauer was a German-American Vergilian philologist who was a Professor in the Classics Department of the University of Pennsylvania.
  • He also previously taught at the Freie Universität Berlin from 1954-1974 before becoming a Penn professor the following year.
  • He is best known for Die Aeneis und Homer: Studien zur poetischen Technik Vergils mit Listen der Homerzitate in der Aeneis, published in 1964 by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in Göttingen, which is regarded as a comprehensive work on the influence of Homer upon Vergil.
  • That work explains the similarities between the Aeneid and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and contains a comprehensive index of similarities between those works. In 1951, Knauer married his late wife, Elfriede R.
  • "Kezia" Knauer, who was also a professor emerita at Penn and an expert in the Silk Road working with the Penn Museum before she died in 2010.

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