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Prof. W. Stroh
Latein is different!

It will be Prof Dr. Stroh depicted during his lifetime

Wilfried Stroh (* 1939 in Stuttgart), also Valahfridus, - Wikipedia - is a German classical philologist. Stroh studied classical philology in Tübingen, Vienna and Munich from 1959 and received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1967, where he completed his habilitation in 1972 after research stays in London, Strasbourg and Münster. From 1972 to 1976 he was a lecturer and adjunct professor in Heidelberg, and since 1976 a full professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, where he retired in 2005.

This is how Latin is fun! Professor Stroh shows in a funny and entertaining way how much Latin still influences our language; it is the basis for many European languages and crowns the connoisseur with the seal of a well-founded education.

But Latin offers more: there is more Latin in science, art and linguistic logic than we realize today. Professor Stroh will show how to find and recognize these roots of our culture in many original examples. You can look forward to a fun Latin lesson.

Professor

Wilfried (Valahfridus) Stroh

Reading and lecture

Munich Mercury

Vivat Valahfridus
(SZ from May 21, 2007)

The “SZ” reviewer praises the author’s “immediate approach” to his “ludicrous” subject, which makes the book “extremely lively, refreshing, and stimulating.” The “subjective coloring of some information by the spirited author” also increases the “appeal of the enormously instructive reading considerably”. Stroh writes a “flaming plea for the Latinas viva.”

"A good knowledge of Latin gives you the best chance of winning "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"

was published in March 2007

Latine loqui: For Stroh, known and revered in the scene for his pure Cicero-Latin, speaking freely is an essential part of acquiring a language.

Society Sodalitas LVDIS LATINIS faciundis e.V.

Links
Joy of Latin * Magic if Latin (Plea for Latin) * Vox Latina
* Warum Latein? - Comments from Prof. Dr. Karl-Wilhelm Weeber on the modernity of the subject * Antike Zum Be-Greifen (Fundgrube von Texten über antikes Alltagsleben aus dem Jahre 2008) *

Wilfried Stroh finds nothing exaggerated when it comes to Latin. The professor of classical philology at Munich University gives his lectures and seminars exclusively in Latin. A lecture is then more strenuous, but unlike a German lecture, I give it without a manuscript, says [he]. Stroh not only speaks Latin at university, but also prefers to speak Latin in public. He appears in front of students on German-Latin talk shows in a white toga. Or gives a Latin speech on the occasion of an anniversary. Many find it funny, but many are also fascinated by it, says Stroh, describing the reactions to his passion. Although he continually helps Latin to gain currency, he considers it to be a dead language: it has not developed any further since Emperor Augustus. However, it never disappeared: in the last 2,000 years there has not been a day on which Latin was not spoken or written.

Professor Stroh and the poet Ovid. Ovid was Greek

Cees Nooteboom:
"There will never again be a language like Latin, never again will precision and beauty and expression form such a unity. Our languages all have too many words, just look at the bilingual editions, on the left the few, measured words, the chiseled ones lines, the full page on the right, the traffic jam, the crush of words, the confusing babble."

Aprogryphs are secret letters of the ancient Egyptians

Latin really is completely different!

Did you know that Latin can be really exciting and a lot of fun? If you don't want to believe that, don't miss Wilfried Stroh. He will definitely prove you wrong! During his cheerful Latin lesson, Professor Wilfried Stroh gets both the gray cells and the laughing muscles of his listeners going.

If you want to do something for your general education and also want to pick up a few clever Latin phrases, then you've come to the right place with Professor Stroh's slightly different Latin lesson.