Adolph Frederick Pauli

Adolph Pauli is a redirect to this article. On the diplomat see Adolf Pauli .

Adolph Frederick Pauli (born June 12, 1893 in Peoria , Illinois , † February 9, 1976 in Middletown , Connecticut ) was an American classical philologist .

life and work

Adolph Frederick Pauli attended Averyville High School and then studied from 1912 at the University of Illinois Liberal Arts and Science . Under the influence of William Abbott Oldfather , he specialized early on in classical philology. He was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Kappa Delta Pi student associations . After completing his bachelor's and master's degrees (1916 and 1917), he worked as an assistant librarian in the field of classical studies. His academic career took him through numerous stations: He began in 1920 as a Fellow in Classics at the University of Illinois . In 1921 he went as an instructor in Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan , in 1922 as an instructor in Latin at Dartmouth College , where he was appointed assistant professor in 1926. In 1928 he moved to Lehigh University .

In 1929 Pauli went to Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut as an assistant professor , where he worked until the end of his life. He was appointed Associate Professor in Classics in 1954 and Professor in Classics in 1960. In 1961 he retired .

Pauli only came out with a few publications. His most extensive work was qualification work of the study, which found little circulation. But they testify to his excellent command of Greek and Latin. He later wrote literature reports and essays for the magazine Classical Weekly and some articles for the Realencyclopadie der Classischen Antiquity .

Pauli was a member of the American Philological Association , the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, and the Classical Association of New England .

Fonts (selection)

• Certain Characteristic Features of the Roman Profile . Urbana-Champaign 1916
• Mediaeval Latin Versions of Avianus: With a Diplomatic Text of One Type . Urbana-Champaign 1917
• Studies in the Vocabulary of Ancient Greek Ceramics: Keramos and Its Derivatives . Urbana-Champaign 1921

literature

• Directory of American scholars. A biographical directory . Volume 3 (1969)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Message from the Wesleyan University Archive dated March 6, 2012.
2. ^ The semi-centennial alumni record of the University of Illinois , 1918, p. 640.
3. ^ University of Illinois Annual register , 1920.