Wolfgang Speyer
German historian of religion and classical philologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Wolfgang Speyer is a German classical philologist and historian of religion. He is a professor at the University of Salzburg. Biography Speyer was born in 1933 in Cologne, Germany. He graduated from a Catholic boarding school in Ettal and the Dreikönigsgymnasium, a gymnasium preparatory school in Cologne. Speyer attended the University of Cologne from 1954–1958 and studied classical philology, ancient history, and philosophy. In 1958, he received his doctorate under . From 1959 to 1962 he was a research assistant at the at the University of Cologne, and in 1963 and 1965–76 he worked at the Franz Joseph Dölger Institute for the study of late antiquity at the University of Bonn and studied Catholic theology. Speyer completed his habilitation in Classical Philology at the University of Salzburg in 1976. In 1977 he received an associate professorship and in 1987 a full professorship. From 1972 to 2013, Speyer was co-editor of the , and published many articles himself in that journal. He is a member of the and PEN International.
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