Wilhelm Ehlers (philologist)
Wilhelm Ehlers (born December 6, 1908 in Woldenberg , Brandenburg province , † December 29, 1988 in Munich ) was a German classical philologist .
Life
He received his doctorate in 1933 in Berlin with the dissertation The Foundation of Zankle in the Aitia des Kallimachos and then worked for the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich. In 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP . From 1939 to 1941 he worked as an editor at the thesaurus. After serving in the war, he took up this post again in 1948 and was general editor of the project from 1952 until his retirement. He was succeeded by Peter Flury .
He also published his translation of the Bellum Civile by Marcus Annaeus Lucanus in 1973 .
literature
- Theodor Bögel : Thesaurus Stories. Contributions to a Historia Thesauri Linguae Latinae. Teubner, Stuttgart et al. 1996, ISBN 3-8154-7101-X , p. 193.
- New beginning after the Third Reich. The resumption of scientific work at the Ludwig Maximilians University and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Diary entries of the classical philologist Albert Rehm 1945 to 1946 . Hamburg 2009, p. 61, 122, 270
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Ehlers in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ehlers, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Woldenberg , Brandenburg Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 1988 |
| Place of death | Munich |