Ivo Bruns
Ivo Bruns (born May 20, 1853 in Halle an der Saale , † May 16, 1901 in Kiel ) was a German classical philologist .
Life
Ivo Bruns came from an old Holstein family of scholars. His father was the lawyer Karl Georg Bruns (1816–1880), who taught as a professor at the universities of Halle (since 1851), Tübingen (since 1859) and Berlin (since 1861). Ivo Bruns studied classical philology, archeology, philosophy and history, first in Berlin with Ernst Curtius , Johann Gustav Droysen , Moriz Haupt , Adolf Kirchhoff and Eduard Zeller , then in Bonn with Jacob Bernays , Franz Bücheler , Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz , Heinrich von Sybel and Hermann Usener . In 1877 he was with the dissertation De legum Platonicarum compositione quaestiones ( "studies of the structure of the laws of Plato ") doctorate .
After completing his studies, Bruns worked in the Paris library from 1878 to 1880, where he collected material for his research work. He was mainly concerned with the handwritten comments on Aristotle . He also continued his research on Plato's writing on the laws. After returning home, he achieved his habilitation at the University of Göttingen with the work Plato's Laws, before and after its publication by Philippos von Opus (Weimar 1880), which was positively received by the professional world. In 1884 he was appointed associate professor.
Just two years later, Bruns moved to Kiel University as an associate professor , where he was appointed full professor in 1890. In 1897 he turned down a call to the University of Giessen .
Ivo Bruns performed his research in various areas of classical philology. He dealt intensively with the content, tradition and reception of the Platonic, Aristotelian and Epicurean philosophy. His main work is the monograph The literary portrait of the Greeks in the fifth and fourth centuries (Berlin 1896; unaltered reprint 1961 by the Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt and the Olms publishing house, Hildesheim), with which the two years younger The Personality in the Historiography of the Elderly . Studies related to the technique of ancient historiography (Berlin 1898).
literature
- Obituaries
- Alfred Schöne: memorial speech for Ivo Bruns at the academic funeral service on May 24, 1901 . In: Chronicle of the University of Kiel for the year 1900/1901 , pp. 60–72 (also published separately).
- Alfred Schöne: Ivo Bruns . In: Biographisches Jahrbuch für Altertumskunde , 26th year (1903), pp. 1–15 (with list of publications).
- Johann Sass: Bruns, Ivo . In: Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog , 6th year (1901), pp. 76–77.
- Collected Works
- Theodor Birt (editor): Ivo Bruns, lectures and essays (with biography and bibliography), Munich 1905.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ivo Bruns in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Ivo Bruns in the German Digital Library
- Wilt Aden Schröder : Biogram of Ivo Bruns in the scholarly historical prosopography of the Teuchos Center
First chair (since 1972 C3 professorship): Karl Friedrich Heinrich (1804–1818) | Wilhelm Wachsmuth (1820–1825) | Gregor Wilhelm Nitzsch (1827-1852) | Georg Curtius (1854–1862) | Otto Ribbeck (1862–1872) | August Wilmanns (1873–1874) | Eduard Lübbert (1874–1881) | Richard Foerster (1881–1890) | Ivo Bruns (1890–1901) | Siegfried Brewhouse (1901–1914) | Werner Jaeger (1915–1921) | Christian Jensen (1921–1926) | Manfred Fuhrmann (1962–1966) | Antonie Wlosok (1968–1972) | Herbert Juhnke (1972–1997) | Lore Benz (1997-2001) | Hans Bernsdorff (2002–2003) | Jan Radicke (since 2004)
Second chair: Friedrich Blass (1881–1892) | Alfred Schöne (1892–1902) | Paul Wendland (1902–1906) | Felix Jacoby (1907-1935) | Erich Burck (1938–1969) | Ernst Doblhofer (1971–1984) | Konrad Heldmann (1985-2005) | Thorsten Burkard (since 2005)
Third chair (until 1921 extraordinary): Johann Matthias Schultz (1802–1846) | Erwin Rohde (1872–1876) | Friedrich Blass (1876–1881) | Friedrich Leo (1881–1883) | Christian Lütjohann (1884) | Ivo Bruns (1886–1890) | Otto Rossbach (1890–1895) | Ernst Bickel (1909–1921) | Johannes Stroux (1922–1923) | Eduard Fraenkel (1923–1928) | Richard Harder (1930-1941) | Hans Diller (1942–1973) | Ernst-Richard Schwinge (1976–1999) | Lutz Käppel (since 1999)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bruns, Ivo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle (Saale) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 16, 1901 |
| Place of death | Kiel |