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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Highet, Gilbert

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Author(s): Joho, Tobias
British-American classical philologist. Born Glasgow 22. 6. 1906, died New York 20. 1. 1978. 1928 MA in classical philology at Univ. of Glasgow. 1932 Bachelor of Arts in Literae Humaniores, i.e. classical philology, philosophy and ancient history, at Balliol College, Oxford. 1933–1937 tutorial fellow at St. John’s College, Oxford. 1936 MA in classics at Univ. of Oxford. From 1938, prof. of Greek and Latin at Columbia Univ., New York; 1950 Anthon Prof. of Latin there. Retired 1972. Work and influence The hallmark of H.’s approach to Greek and Latin literature was his belief …

Hirschfeld, Otto

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Author(s): Rebenich, Stefan
German ancient historian and epigraphist. Born Königsberg 16. 3. 1843, died Berlin 27. 3. 1922. 1859–1863 studied classical philology and ancient history at Königsberg, Bonn and Berlin; doctorate 1863 in Königsberg; habil. 1869 in Göttingen. 1872–1876 prof. ord. in ancient ¶ history at Prague; 1876–1885 at Vienna; 1885–1917 at Berlin. Scholarly career and works The son of a Jewish businessman, H. had himself baptized a Protestant in 1870. As a scholar, H. was influenced by Theodor Mommsen, through whom he found his way to Latin epigraphy. His resea…

Hirt, Aloys

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Author(s): Zimmer, Jürgen
German art scholar and archaeologist. Born Behla/Hüfingen (Schwarzwald-Baar) 27. 6. 1759, died Berlin 29. 7. 1837. Studied philosophy at Nancy, legal doctrine at Freiburg, then from ¶ 1779 at Vienna, political science, aesthetics, rhetoric, ancient history and geography. At Rome from late 1782 to mid-1796. From 1796, prof. at the Akademie der Künste und mechanischen Wissenschaften, Berlin; from 1799 also at the Bauakademie there. 1810 prof. ord. in archaeology at Univ. of Berlin. 1796 full member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. External member of the Ac…