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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Niccoli, Niccolò
(424 words)
Latin Nicolaus de Niccolis; Florentine merchant, manuscript collector and copyist. Born Florence
c. 1365, died there 22. 1. 1437. Work and influence Born into a wealthy Florentine mercantile family, N. was closely associated with Coluccio Salutati in the last years of the 14th cent., and became one of the first students of Manuel Chrysolaras. His circle of friends included Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, N.’s
alter ego (as Salutati called him in a letter of 26. 3. 1406) and the best source of information on his life through his letters [5], Lorenzo Valla, …
Niebuhr, Barthold Georg
(1,583 words)
German ancient historian. Born Copenhagen 27. 8. 1776, died Bonn 2. 1. 1831. 1794–1796 studied history, philosophy, mathematics, physics, Roman law etc. at Kiel; thereafter private secretary. 1798/99 study trip to Edinburgh. 1804 director of the Danish national bank; 1806 director of the Prussian national bank and the
Seehand-lung (Prussian Maritime Enterprise). 1810–1812 lectured on Roman history at Berlin Univ.; 1816–1823 Prussian emissary to the Holy See. Finds of Latin manuscripts at Verona and Rome. 1825–1830 lectures at the Univ. of Bonn. Biography and scholarly career N. w…
Niese, Benedictus
(580 words)
German classical philologist and ancient historian. Born Jürgen Anton Benedictus N. at Burg (Fehmarn) 24. 11. 1849, died Halle 1. 2. 1910. Attended cathedral school in Schleswig; from 1867 studied classical philology at Kiel (especially with Alfred von Gutschmid and Otto Ribbeck), spending the summer semester 1870 at the Univ. of Bonn. 1870/71 volunteer in Franco-Prussian War. Doctorate 1872 at Kiel. 1873 schoolteacher at Flensburg; 1873–1876 stay in Italy and Rome (preparing his edition of Jose…
Nietzsche, Friedrich
(1,534 words)
German philosopher and classical philologist. Born Röcken (Lützen) 15. 10. 1844, died Weimar 25. 8. 1900. 1854–1858
Naumburger Domgymnasium; 1858–1864
Landesschule Pforta; 1864/65 studied classical philology and theology at Bonn. 1864–1869 studied classical philology at Leipzig; 1869–1879 prof. ext. in classical philology at Basel. Biography and career After the death of the father, the pastor Carl Ludwig N., in July 1849, his widow moved to Naumburg with her three children (Friedrich, Elisabeth and Joseph). There, N. first attended the
Domgymnasium, before winning a free …
Nilsson, Martin Persson
(557 words)
Swedish classical philologist, historian of religion and archaeologist. Born Ballingslöv, southern Sweden, 12. 7. 1874, died Lund 7. 4. 1967. School at Kristianstad, then studied classical philology at Univ. of Lund from 1892, taking doctorate there in 1900. 1900 lecturer in Greek language and literature; 1909–1939 prof. of classical archaeology and ancient history at Lund; rector 1936–1939. Work and influence N.’s rural background gave him an interest in the folklore of his homeland, and his research was therefore characterized by a comparative approach…
Nissen, Heinrich
(419 words)
Danish-German ancient historian. Born Haderslev (Denmark) 3. 4. 1839, died Bonn 29. 2. 1912. Born into a family of ropemakers. 1856
Abitur at Meldorf (Dithmarschen). Studied classical philology and history at Kiel; 1859/60 moved to Berlin; 1862 doctorate at Kiel [1]. 1863–1866 in Italy; 1867 habil. in ancient history at Univ. of Bonn. From 1870 prof. ord. at Marburg, from 1877 at Göttingen, from 1878 at Strasbourg. 1884 succeeded Arnold Schaefer as prof. of ancient history at Bonn. 1894/95 rector; 1911 retired. 1886 Prussian
Geheimer Regierungsrat (‘privy councillor’); 1900 repr…