Eva-Maria Voigt (Sappho and Alcaeus.
5 January 1921 – 26 July 2013, born Eva-Maria Hamm) was a German classical philologist, known for her work on the archaic Greek poetsEva-Maria Voigt | |
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Born | |
Died | 26 July 2013 | (aged 92)
Academic background | |
Education | University of Hamburg |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classics |
Sub-discipline | Ancient Greek literature |
Institutions | University of Hamburg |
She studied Classical Philology at the University of Hamburg, and received her doctorate in 1945 with a dissertation "Zur Nominal- und Verbalflexion bei Sappho und Alkaios".[1] From 1955 to 1984, she worked as editor of the Lexicon of the Early Greek Epic, completed in 2010.[2] In 1971, Voigt published Sappho et Alcaeus: Fragmenta.[3] She was a professor of classical philology at the University of Hamburg. She retired in April 1983, to Waldkirch.