Josef Liegle
Josef Liegle (born June 12, 1893 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ; † missing since April 25, 1945 near Halbe and Baruth / Mark ) was a German classical philologist and above all a numismatist .
Family, life and work
Liegle came from an old Gmünder family on both his father's and mother's side. His son Ludwig Liegle , born in 1941, became a professor of general and comparative education.
Josef Liegle received his doctorate from Heidelberg University in 1922 . From 1928 he was employed as a scientific assistant at the Münzkabinett Berlin , from 1929 he was custodian of ancient coins, and from 1936 he was also a lecturer for ancient numismatics at the Berlin University . At the beginning of the 1920s he belonged to the George Circle , which also influenced his later work, especially in a linguistic way. He had translated much of Virgil's writings into German, including all of the pastoral poems and most of the Aeneid . It was not until 2007 that the translations were published with other Liegles' writings. In addition, he conducted research on the Greco-Roman intellectual and religious history . His most important work is the monumental book Der Zeus des Phidias , published in 1952 and dedicated to Erich Heckel .
Josef Liegle has been missing in the turmoil of the Second World War since April 25, 1945 .
Publications (selection)
- Investigations into the platonic forms of life. Dissertation Heidelberg 1922
- Finds of Roman coins near Steinort am Mauersee. Verlag der Berliner Münzblätter, Berlin 1930 ( Berliner Münzblätter 1930, No. 334–335)
- Euainetos. A series of works based on originals from the State Coin Cabinet in Berlin , de Gruyter, Berlin 1941 ( Winckelmann program of the Archaeological Society of Berlin , vol. 101)
- The Zeus des Phidias , Weidmann, Berlin 1952
- Litterae Augustae. Augustan poems and texts of the Princeps in German translation , ed. by Arnd Kerkhecker , Katharina Roettig, Martha Rohde-Liegle and Ernst August Schmidt, Schwabe, Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-7965-2241-3 [1] .
literature
- Gmünder in the service of science. Josef Liegle in memory. in unicorn. Illustrated magazine for cultivating the idea of home in the city and district of Schwäbisch Gmünd , No. 11, June 1955, pp. 110–112.
- Wolfgang Schiering : Appendix. In: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (Ed.) Archaeologists' portraits . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , p. 333.
- Bernd Kluge: Das Münzkabinett - Museum und Wissenschaftsinstitut , Berlin 2004 ( Memento from May 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), p. 103 (PDF file; 3.87 MB).
Web links
- Literature by and about Josef Liegle in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Liegle, Josef |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German numismatist and classical philologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1893 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwäbisch Gmünd |
DATE OF DEATH | April 25, 1945 |
Place of death | at Halbe and Baruth / Mark |