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Friedrich Alexander Riese (born June 2, 1840 in Frankfurt am Main ; † October 8, 1922 there ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Alexander Riese came from a respected Frankfurt family. His great-uncle Johann Jakob Riese (1746-1827) was a childhood friend of Goethe , from whom A. Rieses owned a few letters until 1920. A portrait of his great-uncle von Goethe's hand, which Riese presented in the Frankfurter Zeitung on April 3, 1911 and which was later considered lost for a long time, has been in the Frankfurt Goethe Museum since 2008.

Alexander Riese attended grammar school in Frankfurt, studied philology at the universities of Erlangen, Bonn and Berlin from 1859–1863. In 1863 he became an adjunct at the Joachimsthalschen Gymnasium in Berlin, in 1864 a private lecturer and in 1868 an associate professor at the University of Heidelberg for a few months. One of his students became the philologist and specialist in ancient philosophy Karl Praechter .

In 1868 Riese became senior teacher and in 1871 professor at the grammar school in Frankfurt a. M. He worked in Frankfurt until the end of his life and took part in the cultural life of his hometown in many ways. In Heddernheim , where he played a key role in excavating Roman finds, a street is named after him today.

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Alexander Riese is scientifically significant primarily due to his critical text editions and studies of text transmission. In addition to studies of the Menippe satires Varros and Catullus , Riese turned primarily to the small Latin poetry of antiquity. His collective edition of the Anthologia Latina , the first part of which he took care of himself (the second part with the verse inscriptions was published by Franz Bücheler ), has not been replaced today either. In addition, Riese published in the area of ​​local history; so he edited, among other things, the Roman inscriptions of the Rhineland.

  • De commentario Vergiliano qui M. Valeri Probi dicitur (Diss., Bonn, 1862)
  • M. Terenti Varronis Saturarum Menippearum reliquiae , Leipzig 1865 limited preview in the Google book search
  • Anthologia Latina sive poesis Latinae supplementum , 2 Bd.e Leipzig 1869–70
  • Geographi Latini minores , Heilbronn 1878
  • The poems of Catullus , Leipzig 1884
  • Historia Apollonii regis Tyri , Leipzig 1893
  • The Rhenish Germania in the ancient inscriptions , Leipzig 1914 digitized
  • Review of the origins and development of the Association for History and Archeology in Frankfurt am Main 1857–1907. In: Archive for Frankfurt's History and Art. 28, 1907, pp. 1-34.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hanna Fischer-Lamberg: The young Goethe. Berlin, 1963
  2. ↑ Frankfurt Goethe Museum receives a drawing by Goethe. In: boersenblatt.net. January 2, 2015, accessed January 2, 2015 .
  3. ^ Correspondence in Praechter's estate in the archive of the University of Halle. Retrieved January 2, 2015 . In: sundoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de

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personal data
SURNAME Giant, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riese, Friedrich Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1922
Place of death Frankfurt am Main