Presentazione Workshop Prof.Dr. Nathanael Busch

Prof. Dr. Nathanael Busch
Institut für deutsche Philologie des Mittelalters,
Philipps-Universität Marburg
 
Prof. N. Busch is a specialist of Medieval German philology. He authored critical editions and studies on the Middle High German literary tradition (Critical editions of Wigamur, an Arthurian romance from the 13^th cent., 2009, and of Hans Sach’s Die Irrfahrt Ulissi, 2018; a collection of essays Die Literatur des Mittelalters im Fantasy-Roman, 2017).
 
He participates in relevant international working groups, among them the Société Internationale Arthurienne.
 
With Prof. Dr. Jürgen Wolf, Nathanael Busch heads the Handschriften-Projekt, a development of the Handschriftencensus (www.handschriftencensus.de), which had been scheduled as a complete inventory of German manuscripts of the Middle Ages (from 2006). There each MS is assigned to a regional scribal/dialectal area and dated, the texts that it hands down are identified and, if possible, assigned to known authors, adding a description of codicological and paleographical features.
In 2012, about 23000 mss had already been inventoried, but further mss from East-European, non-European countries and private collections need to be added.
 
Today begins his series of lectures titled
Alexander the Great‘s Journey to the Limits,
 
which will consist of three lectures:
 
#1: Alexanderʼs Travels (Friday 29 November)
#2: Alexander meets Stranger Things (Monday 2 December)
#3: From Above in Pictures (Friday 6 December)