Adolph Kiessling

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Adolph Kießling (born February 15, 1837 in Culm ; † May 3, 1893 in Strasbourg ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Adolph Kießling was the son of pastor Adolph Kießling (senior) and the grandson of the philologist and Zeitz monastery director Gottlieb Kießling . The pedagogue Johann Kießling was his brother. Both mother died in early youth. From 1851 Adolph attended the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin, later the Naumburg Cathedral Gymnasium . One year after his father's death (1855), Kießling passed his school leaving examination in Naumburg and went to the University of Bonn to study classical philology. His academic teachers included Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker , Friedrich Ritschl , Franz Bücheler and Otto Jahn . In 1858 Kießling was promoted to Dr. phil. obtained his doctorate and in 1860 went to the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin as an adjunct .

In 1863 Kießling was appointed full professor of classical philology at the University of Basel . In 1869 he returned to Germany as a teacher at the learned school of the Johanneum in Hamburg. In 1872 he followed a call to the University of Greifswald , where his career reached its peak. With his colleague Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff he published the series Philological Studies . In 1889, Kießling moved to Strasbourg as the successor of Friedrich Leo (with a salary bonus of 3000 marks), where he died in 1893.

Services

Kießling's research focus was on textual criticism and commenting on ancient texts. From 1860 to 1870 he published a basic edition of the writings of Dionysius of Halicarnassus and wrote on Ammian , Seneca , Plautus , Catullus and Properz . His main work was an extensive commentary on the writings of Horace , which appeared in three volumes from 1884 to 1889 and was published in the third edition by Richard Heinze after Kießling's death . The work had eight editions by 1955. It was last reprinted in 1967.

Together with Georg Kaibel , Kießling wrote the first translation of Aristotle's newly discovered Athenaion politeia , the second edition of which appeared in 1891.

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predecessor Office successor
Carl Hueter Rector of the University of Greifswald
1878
Karl Franz Häberlin