Brill’s New Pauly Supplements I - Volume 6 : History of classical Scholarship - A Biographical Dictionary
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Subject: Classical Studies
Edited by: Peter Kuhlmann (Göttingen) and Helmuth Schneider (Kassel)
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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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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Kircher, Athanasius
(932 words)
German polymath. Born Geisa (Rhön) 2. 5. 1602, died Rome 27. 11. 1680. 1612–1618 attended
Päpstliches Seminar at Fulda; 1618 entered the Jesuit Order at Paderborn. 1620–1622 studied natural sciences and classical languages at Paderborn and taught at the Jesuit college in Heiligenstadt. 1623/24 continued language studies at Koblenz and taught at the Jesuit college there. 1625 began theological studies at Mainz, where he took holy orders in 1628. 1629–1631 prof. of philosophy, mathematics and Oriental languages a…
Kirchhoff, Adolf
(429 words)
German classical philologist and linguist. Born Johann Wilhelm Adolf K., Berlin, 6. 1. 1826 in Berlin, died there 27. 2. 1908. 1842–1846 studied classical philology at Univ. of Berlin with Karl Lachmann and August Boeckh et al. Doctorate 1846 [1], then schoolteacher in Berlin. 1860 member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. From 1865 prof. of classical philology at Univ. of Berlin. Career, works and influence K., the son of the historical painter Johann Jacob K., attended school in Berlin. After his studies, he taught Latin, Greek and German for twenty years at the
Joachimsthal’sch…
Kirsten, Ernst
(653 words)
German historical geographer and ancient historian. Born Chemnitz 2. 9. 1911, died Bonn 11. 2. 1987. Member of the
Sturmabteilung (SA) from 1933 and of the National Socialist Party (NSDAP) from 1937; 1941–1945 corporal in the
Luftwaffe. 1941–1943 ‘
Sonderführer zur Erstellung von Luftaufnahmen griechischer Altertümer im Referat Kunstschutz’ (‘
Sonderführer for the obtaining of aerial photographs of Greek antiquities for reference in art conservation’). Studied classical philology, history and archaeology at Greifswald, Göttingen, Munich and Lei…
Klingner, Friedrich
(418 words)
German classical philologist. Born Dresden 7. 7. 1894, died Munich 26. 1. 1968. Studied at Tübingen from 1914, then Berlin (from 1915) and Marburg (from 1920). Doctorate 1921, then assistantship and 1923 habil., all Marburg. 1923–1925 assistant and librarian at Berlin. 1925–1930 prof. ord. in classical archaeology at Hamburg; 1930–1946 prof. ord. at Leipzig; 1947–1962 prof. ord. at Munich. 1956/57 rector of the univ. there. Work and influence A member of the generation after Friedrich Leo, Eduard Norden and Richard Heinze, K. was one of the most significant figu…
Klotz, Christian Adolph
(792 words)
German classical philologist. Born Bischofswerda 13. 11. 1738, died Halle 31. 12. 1771. 1758–1760 studied at Leipzig, 1761–1762 at Jena, where he won
venia legendi. 1762 prof. ext. at Göttingen, 1763–1765 prof. ord. there. 1765 prof. of philosophy and eloquence at Halle. From 1766, privy councillor and librarian there. Work and influence K. showed a precocious talent for ancient languages and during his studies at Leipzig, where his teacher was Johann August Ernesti [16. 14], he already in 1758 published two diss., one on Cicero [2], the other on…