Heinz-Günther Nesselrath (9 November 1957 inRödingen) is aGermanphilologist.
Born inRödingen, Heinz Günther Nesselrath studiedclassical philology in theUniversity of Cologne from 1976 to 1981. Between 1981 and 1989 he held an assistant professorship at the Cologne Classics Institute, between 1989 and 1992 a Heisenberg Scholarship granted by theDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ("German Research Foundation"). He reachedHabilitation in 1987.
From 1992 to 2001 Nesselrath was a professor ofclassical philology at theUniversity of Bern. In 2001, he became a professor and researcher atUniversity of Göttingen. One of his research interests isPlato's presentation ofAtlantis in the dialoguesCritias andTimaeus.
Nesselrath regards Atlantis as an invention by Plato that must be understood as a parable or cautionary tale.[1]
