Tycho von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff

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Tycho von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (born November 16, 1885 in Göttingen , † October 15, 1914 at Dęblin ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Tycho von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff was the eldest son of the classical philologist Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff and his wife Marie geb. Mommsen, the daughter of Theodor Mommsen . He got his first name after his great-uncle Tycho Mommsen (1819-1900). Tycho studied Classical Philology and German Philology , first with his father in Berlin , then in Göttingen with Gustav Roethe and Eduard Schwartz , with whom he moved to Freiburg in 1909 . There he defended his dissertation in 1911 on the drama technique of the Greek tragedy poet Sophocles in his play Antigone . While working on an expanded version of this document, he was drafted into the First World War in 1914. He fell on the night of October 14-15, 1914 near Ivangorod (now Dęblin ), south of Warsaw . His work was published in 1917 under the title The dramatic technique of Sophocles by Ernst Kapp in the series Philological Studies . The deceased's father, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, added a chapter on King Oedipus and a foreword to the work.

literature

  • William M. Calder III , Anton Bierl : The Tale of Oblomov: Tycho von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1885-1914) . In Eikasmós 2, 1991, 257–283 (reprinted in: Tycho von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff: The dramatic technique of Sophokles . Edited from the estate by E. Kapp. With a contribution by U. von Wilamowitz and an appendix to the new edition by William M. Calder III and Anton Bierl, Hildesheim: Weidmann 1996, pp. 383-409).
  • Paul Dräger : Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Homer's Iliad (lecture WS 1887/1888 Göttingen) . 2nd, supplemented edition. Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2008, p. 88.
  • Hugh Lloyd-Jones : Tycho von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff on the Dramatic Technique of Sophocles . In: The Classical Quarterly 22, 1972, pp. 214-224.

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personal data
SURNAME Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Tycho von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Tycho Joseph Wichard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1914
Place of death Dęblin