Born in
Königsberg, Newiger was appointed on 21 December 1953 at the
University of Kiel with his
Dissertation Metaphern und Chorpersonifikationen bei Aristophanes, which was published in 1957 in extended form under the title
Metapher und Allegorie. Studien zu Aristophanes (2000 reprint). In 1955/56 he received the . His
habilitation was completed in 1968 at the University of Kiel under
Hans Diller and with a study of the writing of
Gorgias about the non-being. From 1969 to 1971 he was professor of classical philology at the
TU Berlin. In 1971 he was appointed to the chair of at the newly founded
University of Konstanz which he held until his retirement in 1992 in Bielefeld where he died on 26 December 2011 at the age of 86. Newiger was one of the leading
Aristophanes experts. He was a corresponding member of the
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. == Publications ==