Jürgen Leonhardt
Autor(a) de Latin. Story of a world language
About the Author
Jrgen Leonhardt is Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Tubingen.
Obras por Jürgen Leonhardt
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- Nome canónico
- Leonhardt, Jürgen
- Data de nascimento
- 1957-08-12
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Germany
- Local de nascimento
- Lahr/Schwarzwald, Germany
- Educação
- University of Tubingen
University of Munich - Ocupações
- Professeur (Philologie)
Philologue (Latin)
Latiniste - Organizações
- Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
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Críticas
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Membros
- 133
- Popularidade
- #152,660
- Avaliação
- 4.2
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 9
- Línguas
- 2
This book is also a specialist history, though it is much less engaging than those books until the final chapter. Suddenly it came alive in the last 15 pages, ironically in a chapter which argues for much less formality in the teaching of Latin, and for the recognition of Latin as it was lived rather than a stiff concentration on the semi-scientific teaching of grammar. (If only my school Latin teacher had taken that approach in the 1960s...) I sympathise with the author, having written another form of specialised history - it's so hard to recognise one's own specialist short cuts and to explain them.… (mais)