Brill’s New Pauly Supplements I - Volume 6 : History of classical Scholarship - A Biographical Dictionary

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Edited by: Peter Kuhlmann (Göttingen) and Helmuth Schneider (Kassel)

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This compendium gives a comprehensive overview of the history of classical studies. Alphabetically arranged, it provides biographies of over 700 scholars from the fourteenth century onwards who have made their mark on the study of Antiquity. These include the lives, careers and works of classical philologists, archaeologists, ancient historians, students of epigraphy, numismatics, papyrology, Egyptology and the Ancient Near East, philosophers, anthropologists, social scientists, art historians, collectors and writers. The biographies put the scholars in their social, political and cultural contexts while focusing on their scholarly achievements and their contributions to modern classical scholarship.

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Hemsterhuis, Tiberius

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Author(s): Landfester, Manfred
Hemsterhusius; Dutch classical philologist and mathematician. Baptized Groningen 18. 1. 1685 (or: born 1. 2. 1685 [11. Chap. 11]), died Leiden 7. 4. 1766. Son of a doctor. After Latin school at Groningen (1698), studied theology – but also philosophy and mathematics – with Johannes Jacob Bernoulli at Univ. of Groningen. 1700–1704 studied Greek and Latin languages, philology and history at Univ. of Leiden with Jacob Perizonius; worked to put in order the manuscripts of the library there. From 1704, prof. of mathematics and philosophy at the Athenaeum illustre in Amsterdam. From 1717…

Henzen, Wilhelm

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Author(s): Blanck, Horst
German epigraphist. Born Johann Heinrich Wilhelm H. at Bremen, 24. 1. 1816, died Rome 27. 1. 1887. Altes Gymnasium Bremen; 1836–1838 studied at Univ. of Bonn (classical philology, Sanskrit, modern languages), then at the Univ. of Berlin (classical philology, ancient history, geography). 1840 doctorate at Leipzig with diss. on Polybius. 1841/42 travels, especially in Greece and Italy. 1842, while on Sicily, invited by Emil Braun to the Roman Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica, initially working there as unpaid assistant. 1844 librarian, 1845 second secretary, …

Heraeus, Carl Gustav

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Author(s): Lang, Jörn
German antiquarian, numismatist and writer. Born 1671 in Stockholm, died Veitsch (Upper Styria, now Austria) 6. 11. 1725. School in Stockholm; attended Univ. of Uppsala from 1682, Gymnasium Carolinum at Stettin from 1687, doctorate there 1689. Studied once more at Univ. of Frankfurt an der Oder; 1690 show stays at Stockholm and numerous German and Dutch univs. 1693 in Paris, 1694 return home by way of Wolfenbüttel and Hamburg. 1698–1701 in Paris as teacher of Baron Hans von Fersen, while expanding his knowledge of numismatics and Latin philology. 1702, appointed court councillor ( Hofra…

Hermann, Gottfried

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Author(s): Fornaro, Sotera
German philologist. Born Leipzig 28. 11. 1772, died there 31. 12. 1848. Studied law and philology at Leipzig from 1786. 1793 MA in artes liberales, 1794 habil. at Univ. of Leipzig. 1797 prof. ext. in philosophy, 1803 prof. of eloquence, Leipzig. After refusing an appointment to Kiel in 1809, prof. of poetry in Leipzig. Work and influence Friedrich Wolfgang Reiz acquainted H. with rationalist, empiricist philology in the tradition of Richard Bentley. Christian Gottfried Schütz introduced him to the critical textual study of Aeschylus, which became H.’s…

Hertzberg, Gustav Friedrich

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Author(s): Schlange-Schöningen, Heinrich
German ancient historian. Born Halle an der Saale 19. 6. 1826, died there 16. 11. 1907. School at Pädagogium of the Franckesche Stiftungen, 1843 studied history, classical philology, for a time also theology and Oriental languages at Univs. of Halle and Leipzig, doctorate Halle 1848. Staatsexamen (teaching certificate) 1850, then assistant teacher at Pädagogium of the Franckesche Stiftungen. 1851 habil. in ancient history at Univ. of Halle. Member of the National Liberal Party; 1858–1860 editor of the Preussisches Wochenblatt. 1860 adjunct prof. of ancient history at Univ…

Herzfeld, Ernst

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Author(s): Hauser, Stefan R.
German archaeologist and Orientalist. Born Celle 23. 7. 1879, died Basel 21. 1. 1948. Cathedral Gymnasium in Verden an der Aller, Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium in Berlin ( Abitur 1897), then a year of military service. Studied architecture at Technische Hochschule (Berlin-)Charlottenburg, graduating 1903 and appointed royal superintendent of buildings ( königlicher Regierungsbauführer). Studied Assyriology and art history at Berlin. 1903–1905 working for Walter Andrae at Aššur, followed by travels in western Iran. 1907 doctorate with Eduard Meyer…

Hettner, Felix

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Author(s): Merten, Jürgen
German provincial Roman archaeologist. Born Jena 29. 7. 1851, died Trier 12. 10. 1902. Studied classics at Leipzig and Bonn 1872–1877, doctorate Bonn 1877. 1877–1902 director of Trier provincial museum. Work and influence H., who turned to classical studies at the suggestion of his father Hermann H. (director of the antiquities collection and the museum of casts at Dresden), is regarded as the founder of the ‘Provincial Museum of Rhenish Prussia’ (‘ Provinzialmuseum der preussischen Rheinprovinz’, now Rheinisches Landesmuseum) at Trier, the most important collection of Ro…

Heurgon, Jacques

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Author(s): Berner, Hans-Ulrich | Lilie, Valeria
French classical philologist and historian. Born Paris 25. 1. 1903, died there 27. 10. 1995. 1923–1927 studied at École normale supérieure in Paris; 1928 member of the École française de Rome. From 1930, teacher in Nancy. 1932–1942 lecturer at Univ. of Algiers, also teacher at the Lycée Bugeaud there, 1934–1937. 1944/45 cultural attaché in Rome after taking part in the Battle of Monte Cassino. 1945 doctorate in Paris; from 1945 prof. at Lille, then from 1951 lecturer at the Sorbonne. Prof. of Latin philology there 1953–1971. Work and influence With broadly-based studies with the cla…

Heuss, Alfred

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Author(s): Baltrusch, Ernst
German ancient historian. Born Gautzsch (near Leipzig) 27. 6. 1909, died Göttingen 7. 2. 1995. 1928 studied history and classical philology, firstly at Tübingen, then with Helmut Berve at Leipzig, also law from 1931. 1932 doctorate in ancient history; 1936 doctorate in law. 1936 habil. in ancient history at Leipzig. 1937 appointed lecturer. Began teaching at Leipzig 1938; 1938–1941 replacement prof. of ancient history at Königsberg; 1941–1945 prof. ord. at Breslau; 1945/46 replacement prof. at K…

Heyne, Christian Gottlob

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Author(s): Leonhardt, Jürgen
German antiquarian, publisher and librarian. Born Chemnitz 25. 9. 1729, died Göttingen 14. 7. 1812. Studied jurisprudence at Leipzig ¶ from 1748. 1753 copyist and court librarian to Count Heinrich von Brühl at Dresden; 1757 tutor to Count von Boitzen. From 1763, prof. of eloquence at Univ. of Göttingen; 1764 chief librarian. 1770 secretary of the Societät der Wissenschaften and editor of the Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen. Biography, career and works H. came from a poor family: his father was a linen weaver. His school years and his time studying at the Univ. of L…
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