Otta Wenskus (born 29 May 1955, inMarburg/Lahn) is a Germanclassical philologist currently residing in Austria.

Wenskus is the daughter of historianReinhard Wenskus.^[1] She studied Classical philology andlinguistics at the Universities ofGöttingen,Florence, andLausanne. She acquired herPh.D. in Göttingen in 1982. In 1985/86 she wasmaître de conférences at theUniversity of Caen, and in 1987 Visiting Scholar at the Institute of theHistory of Mathematics atBrown University,Providence, Rhode Island.

She passed herhabilitation in 1988.^[1] During the summer terms of 1990 and 1992 she was a guest professor at the Universities ofOsnabrück andJena respectively and, from 1990 to 1994, a Heisenberg scholar until her appointment as a full professor at theUniversity of Innsbruck.

In 2025, she is Professor Emeritus at University of Innsbruck.^[1]

Her topics includehistory of science, particularlymedicine andastronomy,linguistics, particularlycode switching,gender studies,Latinepistolography,Dante, and the reception of classical antiquity infantasy andscience fiction, particularlyStar Trek.^[2]

• Ringkomposition, anaphorisch-rekapitulierende Verbindung und anknüpfende Wiederholung im hippokratischen Corpus, Frankfurt 1982 (doctoral dissertation, Göttingen 1982),ISBN 388-3-2339-00.^[3]
• Astronomische Zeitangaben von Homer bis Theophrast. Hermes Einzelschriften 55, Stuttgart 1990 (habilitation thesis, Göttingen 1988),ISBN 351-5-0553-39.^[3]
• Emblematischer Codewechsel und Verwandtes in der lateinischen Prosa. Zwischen Nähesprache und Distanzsprache, Innsbruck 1998,ISBN 978-3-8512-4672-8.
• Umwege in die Vergangenheit : Star Trek und die griechisch-römische Antike, Innsbruck 2009,ISBN 978-3-7065-4661-4.^[3]

• Literature by and about Otta Wenskus in theGerman National Library catalogue
• Otta Wenskus at the University of Innsbruck

• German classical philologists
• University of Göttingen alumni
• University of Florence alumni
• University of Lausanne alumni
• Academic staff of the University of Innsbruck
• People from Marburg
• 1955 births
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• Women philologists

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