Günther Zuntz

German academic
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Quick Facts

IntroGerman academic
PlacesGermany
wasAthlete Football player Association football player Philologist
Work fieldSocial science Sports
Gender
Male
Birth28 January 1902, Berlin
Death3 April 1992Cambridge (aged 90 years)
Star signAquarius
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Biography

Günther Zuntz (28 January 1902 – 3 April 1992), German-English classical philologist, professor of Hellenistic Greek and Bible scholar. He obtained a D.Phil. from the University of Marburg in 1928 and was later a professor at the University of Manchester.
Zuntz was born in Berlin in 1902. In 1933 he emigrated to England, because of racial persecutions.
Zuntz examined the Greek text of the Pauline epistles.

Works

  • Zuntz G. (1953). The Text of the Epistles. London: Wipf & Stock Publishers. ISBN 978-1-55635-372-7. 
  • Zuntz, G. Persephone: Three Essays on Religion and Thought in Magna Graecia. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.

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