STAFFAN FOGELMARK
Emeritus Professor of Greek
Academic curriculum
Academic Degrees
Lund University, Sweden
- B.A. 1964
- M.A. 1968
- PhD 1972
Academic Positions
Lund University, Sweden
- Reader in Greek, 1972-85
- Lecturer in Greek, 1985-96
University of Gothenburg
- Professor of Greek, 1997-2004
International Appointments/Honorary Fellowships
- Harvard University, USA, Fellow of The Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C. (1973/74).
- University of Edinburgh, UK, Charles Gordon Mackay Lecturer (1979).
- Lund University, The New Society of Letters (1980).
Awards
- The Gleerup Prize, The New Society of Letters, Lund University (1992)
- Lund University Student Union Prize for Pedagogical Excellence (1995)
- The ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography (London, 25 May, 2018)
- Degree of Doctor Jubilaris, Lund University (3 June, 2022).
Research Scholarship
Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (1991-93).
Public Lectures
Public lectures at universities in Great Britain and the USA.
Areas of research
- Greek archaic epic and lyric poetry
- Greek rhetoric
- Hellenistic poetry
- Renaissance Greek scholarship
- Renaissance Greek printing
- Medieval and Renaissance bibliopegy
- Analytical bibliography
Publications
Books
- Studies in Pindar with particular reference to Paean VI and Nemean VII (Dissertation; 156 pp.). Lund: CWK Gleerup, 1972.
- Chrysaigis: IG 12:5, 611 (Scripta minora Regiae Societatis Humaniorum Litterarum Lundensis 1974-75:2). Lund: CWK Gleerup, 1975. (On Greek poetic inscriptions on stone and archaic choral lyric poetry; 52 pp.)
- Flemish and Related Panel-Stamped Bindings: Evidence and Principles. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1990. (On late medieval and Renaissance bookbindings; 270 pp., xlii plates.)
- The Kallierges Pindar A Study in Renaissance Greek Scholarship and
Printing. Cologne: Dinter, 2015. (804 pp. in two vols.)
- Response to Giambattista D’Alessio’s review in BMCR 2017.07.27 of The Kallierges Pindar: A Study in Renaissance Greek Scholarship and Printing
Articles
- “Two cases of Adynaton: Ag. 612 and Theodoridas AP. XIII.21”. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 79 (1975), 149-63.
- “Pindaric Bibliography”. Eranos, 74 (1976), 69-102.
- “Pindar, Nemean, 7, 50-52”, L’Antiquité Classique, 45 (1976), 121-32.
- Review of: Jesper Svenbro, La parole et le marbre: Aux origines de la poétique grecque. Lund: Studentlitteratur, 1976]. Gnomon, 50 (1977), 113-24.
- “A Troublesome Antithesis: Lysias 12.88”. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 83 (1979), 109-41.
- “καὶ κείνοις: Pindar, Nemean 5.22”. [In:] Arktouros: Hellenic Studies Presented to Bernard M. W. Knox on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, ed. by Glen W. Bowersock et al., 71-80. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1979.
- “Lysias 12.37: An Unexplained Case of κακοφωνία”. Hermes, 109 (1981), 294-300.
- “Hobson’s Magnum Opus: Wary walking Recommended” [Review of: Anthony Hobson, Humanists and Bookbinders: The Origins and Diffusion of the Humanistic Bookbinding 1459-1559. Cambridge: CUP, 1989]. Text: Swedish Journal of Bibliography, Uppsala, 4:4 (1991), 174-205.
- “A Correction to Adams P 1219-1221 (Pindar)” (Bibliographical Notes and Queries: Note 555), The Book Collector, 44 (1995), 112-13.
- “A Mistaken Attribution” (Bibliographical Notes and Queries: Note 574), The Book Collector, 51 (2002) 130-31.
- “Four Epigrams in the Greek Anthology: AP 7.365, 7, 651, 6.276 and 7.79”, Eranos 100 (2002), 23-37.
- “To Bee or Not To Bee? Antipater AP 7.34: A Mistaken Interpretation”, Eranos 100 (2002), 128-136.
- “The Anonymous Rome 1522 Chrysoloras: A Newly Discovered Greek Press”, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 97 (2003), 5-42.
- “In my End is my Beginning: Verbal Echoes in Pindar’s 9th Pythian”, Studia Palaeophilologica (Festschrift Gerald M. Browne), ed. Stephen M. Bay. Champaign, IL: Stipes, 2004, 71-78.
- “The 1515 Kallierges Pindar: A First Report”, Συγχάρματα (Syncharmata) edd. O. Strid, D. Searby & T. Hållander, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Graeca Upsaliensia 21 (Festschrift Kindstrand), Uppsala 2006, 37-48.
- “Pindar, Pythian 8.95-6: An Unrecognized Problem”, Hermes 136 (2008), 383-90.
- “Pindaros på svenska: En seriös granskning av Ingvar Björkesons översättning”, Text: Svensk Tidskrift för Bibliografi, 7:2, Uppsala (2009), 63-132.
- “Pindaros, Olympia 13.51”, Humanitas: Festskrift till Arne Jönsson, edd. A.M.H. Nilsson, A. Damtoft Poulsen & J. Svensson, Makadam Förlag, Göteborg & Stockholm 2017, 37-51.
- For articles in Swedish (except the last two entries above), see the checklist in Dais Philesistephanos: Studies in honour of Professor Staffan Fogelmark presented on the occasion of his 65th birthday 12 April 2004, edited by Pär Sandin & Marianne Wifstrand Schiebe, 443-47. Uppsala: Dahlia books, 2004.
Encyclopedias
- Nationalencyklopedin, Supplement 1 (2000), 584.
- (See also Contemporary Authors, Gale Research Inc., vol. 139 [1993], 136-37.)
Contact
Preferred contact by email: staffan@fogelmark.org