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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Hofmann, Johann Baptist

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Author(s): Kaiser, Ronny
German classical philologist and linguist. Born Neukenroth (Upper Franconia) 11. 2. 1886, died Munich 27. 7. 1954. 1904–1909 studied classical philology and comparative linguistics at Munich. 1909 Staatsexamen (teaching certificate) and doctorate there. From 1909 until his death, collaborator on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae; editor of its first volume 1927–1951. 1929 Leibniz Medal from the Prussian Academy of Sciences. 1939 corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences; 1948 full member of the philological-historical class of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Work …

Hohl, Ernst

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Author(s): Walter, Uwe
German ancient historian and classical philologist. Born Stuttgart 18. 4. 1886, died Berlin 24. 2. 1957. After attending the Karlsgymnasium at Stuttgart and serving in the military, studied classical philology and historical science 1905–1910 at Tübingen, Munich and Berlin. 1910/11 student teacher. 1911 doctorate at Tübingen with a thesis on the Historia Augusta. 1912/13 study trip; 1914 habil. at Strasbourg. 1919 prof. ext. of ancient history at Rostock; 1929 prof. ord., 1930/31 and 1946–1948 dean there. 1950 prof. ord. at the Humboldt Univ. in Berlin. Retired 1953. Member of the St…

Holleaux, Maurice

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Author(s): Sonnabend, Holger
French epigraphist and ancient historian. Born Château-Thierry (Aisne) 15. 4. 1861, died Paris 22. 9. 1932. Studied history; 1882–1885 member of the École française d’Athènes and its director from 1904. 1888–1904 lecturer in archaeology at Lyon 1904–1912 and 1912–1923 teaching work at the Faculté des Lettres of the Sorbonne in Paris; 1923–1927 prof. of Hellenistic antiquity there. 1927–1932 prof. of Greek epigraphy at Collège de France. From 1925, member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. Career, works and influence Aged just 21, H. became a member of the renowned Éc…

Holm, Adolf

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Author(s): Sonnabend, Holger
German ancient historian. Born Lübeck 8. 8. 1830, died Freiburg im Breisgau 9. 6. 1900. 1847–1851 studied theology, philology and history at Leipzig and Berlin; 1851 doctorate at Berlin. 1852 named Gymnasium teacher at Katharineum in Lübeck. 1877/78 prof. ext., 1878–1884 prof. ord. in universal history at Univ. of Palermo; 1884–1897 prof. of ancient history at Univ. of Naples. Career and works H., the son of a factory owner, studied in Leipzig (1847–1849) and Berlin (1849–1851), graduating with a diss. on the Ethics and Politics of Aristotle, to become a teacher of French at the Katharine…

Hölscher, Uvo

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Author(s): Fornaro, Sotera | Poiss, Thomas
German classical philologist. Born Halle 8. 3. 1914, died Munich 31. 12. 1996. 1937 doctorate at Frankfurt with Karl Reinhardt. 1944 habil. at Hamburg with Bruno Snell. 1937–1945 soldier. In American captivity 1945/46. 1946–1954, priv.-doz. in Munich; 1954–1962 prof. ord. in classical philology at Freie Univ. Berlin. 1962–1970 at the Univ. of Heidelberg; 1970–1982 at Univ. of Munich (successor to Kurt von Fritz). 1978–1990 president of the Hölderlin-Gesellschaft. Career, works and influence In his accession address at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences [6. 394–397] …

Homolle, Théophile

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Author(s): Etienne, Roland
French classical archaeologist and epigraphist. Born Paris 19. 12. 1848, died there 13. 6. 1925. 1869–1871 student at the École normale supérieure (ENS) in Paris; 1874 agrégation (teaching certificate) in history. 1886 Docteur ès lettres. 1875–1878 member first of the École française de Rome, later also d’Athènes (EFA). 1878 lecturer at Univ. of Nancy. 1884–1890 deputy prof. at Collège de France in Paris; 1891–1903 and 1912/13 director of EFA. Between the two terms, 1904–1911, director of the Musées nationaux (Louvre); 1914–1924 director of Bibliothèque nationale. Member of the Aca…

Höschel, David

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Author(s): Kuhn-Chen, Barbara
Also Hoeschelius, Heschelius; German Humanist and Hellenist. Born Augsburg 8. 4. 1556, died there 19. 10. 1617. Studied at Univ. of Leipzig from 1577; 1579 MA at Univ. of Wittenberg. From 1581, teacher at St. Anna Gymnasium in Augsburg; also rector and city librarian there from 1593. Work and influence H., the son of a schoolmaster, was influenced at the Protestant St. Anna Gymnasium in Augsburg by the Hellenist Hieronymus Wolf, a student of Philipp Melanchthon; like his colleague Georg Henisch and the Catholic patrician Markus Welser, Wolf belonged to the …

Housman, Alfred Edward

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Author(s): Hanses, Mathias
British classical philologist and poet. Born 26. 3. 1859 in Fockbury (Worcestershire), died 30. 4. 1936 in Cambridge. 1877–1881 studied Literae humaniores at St. John’s College, Oxford; 1882–1892 worked in the London Patent Office. 1892–1911 prof. of Latin at Univ. College, London; 1911–1936 prof. of Latin at Cambridge. Biography H., the eldest child of a lawyer, won a scholarship to St. John’s College at the Univ. of Oxford, but after initial success, he failed his degree examination in 1881. Thereafter, from 1882, he worked in the London Pat…

Hrozný, Bedřich (Friedrich)

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Author(s): Klinger, Jörg
Czech ancient Near Eastern scholar and Hittitologist. Born Lissa (Elbe) 6. 5. 1879, died Prague 12. 12. 1952. School at Prague and Cologne; studies at Vienna; doctorate Vienna 1901. From 1905, lecturer in Semitic languages and cuneiform at Univ. of Vienna. From 1918 prof. of ancient Near Eastern history and cuneiform at (the Czech) Charles Univ. Prague, becoming its rector in 1939. Career and works The son of a Protestant pastor, H. first studied at the theological faculty of the Univ. of Vienna. However, his greatest interest was in the Semitic languages and…

Huet, Pierre Daniel

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Author(s): Mulsow, Martin
Huetius; French cleric and polymath. Born Caen 8. 2. 1630, died Paris 26. 1. 1721. Orphan, educated at the Jesuit school in Caen; at Paris from 1651. 1652 tour to Sweden. 1662 founded the Académie de physique in Caen. 1670 tutor to the Dauphin at the Paris court. From 1674 member of the Académie française. 1676 holy orders. 1678 Abbot of Aulnay; from 1692 Bishop of Avranches; from 1699 Abbot of Fontenay. Retired to Paris 1701. Career Instructed by Pierre Mambrun and supported by Samuel Bochart, H., who was always very close to the Jesuits, entered scholarly circles first…

Hugues d’Hancarville, Pierre-François

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Author(s): Bentz, Martin
French antiquarian, art historian and adventurer across Europe. Born Nancy 1719, died Padua 1805. From 1765, entrusted with the publication of the vase collection of William Hamilton. Biography and career Born Pierre-François Hugues, the son of a textile merchant, H. d’ H. called himself the Baron d’Hancarville from the 1750s. He led a spectacular life, first embarking on a military career in Germany, in the course of which he became a captain at the court of Mecklenburg, entered the service of the Duke of Württemberg and tr…

Hülsen, Christian

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Author(s): Blanck, Horst
German classical archaeologist and epigraphist. Born Berlin 29. 11. 1858, died Florence 19. 1. 1935. 1876–1880 studied at the Univ. of Berlin (classical philology, ancient history, archaeology, with Ernst Curtius, Henri Jordan and Theodor Mommsen et al.), 1880 doctorate there for a diss. on Varro. Brief employment with the CIL in Berlin. From 1882 at the DAI in Rome, initially with a travel bursary. 1886/87 schoolteacher in Berlin; 1887–1909 second secretary at DAI in Rome. 1908/09 guest prof. i…

Humann, Carl

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Author(s): Radt, Wolfgang
German engineer and excavator. Born Steele (near Essen) 4. 1. 1839, died Izmir (Turkey) 12. 4. 1896. Studied at the Bauakademie in Berlin, interrupted because of contracting tuberculosis. Began a new life from 1861 as a surveyor in the Ottoman Empire, in Palestine, Alexandria and the eastern Balkans. Local director of excavations from 1878 at Pergamum, under the scientific supervision of Alexander Conze. Honorary doctorate from Univ. of Greifswald 1880. 1884 external director of the Berliner Museen based at Izmir; 1890 honorary citizenship of Steele. Active at Pergamum …

Humboldt, Wilhelm von

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Author(s): Fornaro, Sotera
German scholar and statesman. Born Wilhelm Christian Carl Ferdinand von H., Potsdam 22. 6. 1767, died Berlin 8. 4. 1835. 1787 studied (law) at Frankfurt an der Oder and general studies at Göttingen 1788–1790. 1797–1801 lived at Paris; 1802–1808 Prussian Resident at the Holy See in Rome. 1809/10 privy councillor and director of the culture and education department at the Prussian Ministry of the Interior, also founder of the Berlin Univ. 1810–1819 Prussian diplomat in the decisive period of the Napoleonic Wars, the Congress of Vienna and thereafter. Retired to private life 1820. Writings…

Hume, David

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Author(s): Schneider, Helmuth
Scottish philosopher, historian and economist. Born Edinburgh 7. 5. 1711, died there 25. 8. 1776. 1726–1729 studied law at Univ. of Edinburgh, thereafter private study of philosophy. 1735–1737 and 1763–1766 in France. From 1752, librarian at Edinburgh. Worked from 1763 for the British Embassy in Paris, then 1767/68 at the Foreign Office. Thereafter private scholar in Edinburgh. Works and influence H. was the second son of the advocate and landowner Joseph H. From 1735, he worked as a private scholar, devoting himself mostly to the study of philosophy. In…

Hunt, Arthur Surridge

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Author(s): Palme, Bernhard
British papyrologist. Born Romford (Essex) 1. 3. 1871, died Oxford 18. 6. 1934. Philological education from 1890 with Thomas Hodge Grose at Queen’s College, Oxford. Undecided between Latin manuscripts and theology until the offer of collaboration on papyri from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (1895). 1894 Craven Fellowship, 1896–1900 Senior Demyship at Magdalen College, Oxford; 1901–1906 fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford; 1906 fellow of Queen’s College and 1908 reader in papyrology there. 1913 took over t…