Anton Westermann
Anton Westermann (born June 18, 1806 in Leipzig , † November 24, 1869 in Leipzig) was a German classical philologist . Among other things, he published a collection of texts by Greek mythographers .
Life
After finishing high school in Freiberg , Westermann studied Classical Philology in Leipzig from 1825. After his habilitation in 1830, he became a private lecturer at the University of Leipzig . In 1833 he was appointed associate professor. The next year he received the chair of Professor Christian Daniel Beck, who died in 1832, as part of a house call . From 1849 until his retirement in 1865 he was co-director of the philological seminary. One of his students was Bernhard Heisterbergk . In its founding year 1846, he was accepted as a full member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences .
His brother was the publisher George Westermann .
Works
- History of eloquence in Greece and Rome (Leipzig 1833 to 1835, 2 vol.)
- Mythographi Graeci (Braunschweig 1843)
- Editor of the editions of Plutarch's Vitae X oratorum (Quedlinb. 1833) and Vita Solonis (Braunschweig 1841), by Stephanus Byzantinus (Leipzig 1839), Paradoxographi (Braunschweig 1839), Mythographi (Braunschweig 1843), Biographi (Braunschweig 1845), Philostratus et Callistratus (Paris 1849), Olympia dori, Ammonii, Jamblichi etc. vitae Platoni Aristotelis, Pythagorae etc. (Paris 1850, in Cobet's edition of Diogenes Laertius), Selected Speeches of Demosthenes (Leipzig and Berlin 1850–1852, 3 vols .; often repeated, most recently by Rosenberg), Lysias (Leipzig 1854), Heracliti epistolae (Leipzig 1857).
- Quaestiones Demosthenicae (Leipzig 1830–37, 4 parts)
- Investigation of the documents inserted in the Attic speeches (Leipzig 1850, 2 parts)
- Index graecitatis Hyperideae (Leipzig 1860–64, 8 parts)
He also translated selected speeches by Demosthenes (Stuttgart 1856–73, 12 Lfgn.) And Leakes Die Demen von Athen (Braunschweig 1840), published Vossius De historicis graecis (Leipzig 1838) and the Epistolae virorum clarorum ad Meursium (Leipzig 1841) and edited the Acta societatis graecae (Leipzig 1836–40, 2 vols.) with Funk Hänel .
literature
- Friedrich August Eckstein : Nomenclator philologorum. Leipzig 1871, p. 614 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Wilhelm Pökel : Philological writer's lexicon. Leipzig 1882, p. 302 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Anton Westermann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Anton Westermann in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
- Overview of Anton Westermann's courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1831 to winter semester 1865)
Individual evidence
- ^ Members of the SAW: Anton Westermann. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed December 12, 2016 .
First chair (from 1985 Greek studies ): Johann Friedrich Christ (1739–1756) | Johann August Ernesti (1756–1770) | August Wilhelm Ernesti (1770–1801) | Gottfried Hermann (1803–1848) | Reinhold Klotz (1849–1870) | Ludwig Lange (1871–1885) | Kurt Wachsmuth (1886–1905) | Erich Bethe (1906–1931) | Jürgen Werner (1985–1996) | Kurt Sier (since 1996)
Second chair (since 1974 Latin studies ): Friedrich Wolfgang Reiz (1782–1785) | Christian Daniel Beck (1785-1819) | Friedrich August Wilhelm Spohn (1819–1824) | Christian Daniel Beck (1825-1832) | Anton Westermann (1834–1865) | Friedrich Ritschl (1865–1876) | Otto Ribbeck (1877–1898) | Friedrich Marx (1899–1906) | Richard Heinze (1906–1929) | Friedrich Klingner (1930–1947) | Franz Dornseiff (1948–1960) | Walter Hofmann (1974–1990) | Ekkehard Stark (1992-2001) | Marcus Deufert (since 2003)
Third chair: Otto Jahn (1847–1850) | Gregor Wilhelm Nitzsch (1852–1861) | Georg Curtius (1862-1885) | Erwin Rohde (1886)
Fourth chair: Justus Hermann Lipsius (1877–1914) | Bruno Keil (1914–1916) | Alfred Körte (1917–1934) | Wolfgang Schadewaldt (1934–1941) | Karl Reinhardt (1942–1946)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Westermann, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1806 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 24, 1869 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |