Georg Finsler (classical philologist)
Georg August Finsler (born February 22, 1852 in Berg am Irchel , † February 19, 1916 in Bern ) was a Swiss classical philologist .
Life
Finsler, a son of the Reformed pastor and later Zurich antistes Diethelm Georg Finsler , became a teacher of Latin and ancient Greek in Zurich after studying in Zurich (until 1875) and Berlin. In 1886 he became rector of the municipal grammar school in Bern . In 1906 he turned down an offer from the University of Basel to succeed Alfred Körte . Finsler founded the Literary Society in Bern and did research on Homeric epics. He was in contact with Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff .
In 1907 he was granted honorary citizenship rights by the civic community of Bern .
Publications (selection)
- Critical investigations on the history of the Greek anthology , dissertation Zurich 1876
- From the portfolio of a traveler. Pictures from Italy and Greece , Frauenfeld 1884
- The Oresty of Aeschylos , Bern 1890
- Plato and the Aristotelian Poetics , Leipzig 1900
- The Olympic scenes in the Iliad , Bern 1906
- Homer , Leipzig 1908
- Homer in Modern Times from Dante to Goethe , Leipzig 1912
literature
- Édouard Tièche (Ed.): Georg Finsler in his letters to Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff . Bern 1956
- Edouard Tièche: Finsler, Georg August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 165 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg Finsler in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ueli Dill : Finsler, Georg. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Finsler : Genealogy of the Finsler family. Werner-Riehm, Basel 1891, p. 26 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Thüring v.Erlach / Eric v. Graffenried: Die Burgergemeinde Bern today , in: Die Burgergemeinde Bern. Present and History , Bern 1996, pp. 13–44, there p. 14
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Finsler, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Finsler, Georg August (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berg am Irchel |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 19, 1916 |
| Place of death | Bern |