Artur Biedl (classical philologist)

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Artur Biedl (born November 14, 1904 in Vienna , † October 29, 1950 in Regensburg ) was an Austrian classical philologist .

life and work

Artur Biedl was the son of the physician Artur Biedl (1869–1933), who had taught in Prague since 1913, and his wife Elisabeth Biedl, nee. Biach (* 1882), who perished in the Litzmannstadt ghetto in 1942 . He studied at the German University of Prague with Siegfried Reiter and Theodor Hopfner and especially with Edgar Martini , and received his doctorate on June 15, 1929 with a thesis on the work of the historian Lucius Cornelius Sisenna . From 1931 to 1938 he worked as an assistant at the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Prague. Until 1939 he taught at the grammar school in Teplitz-Schönau , during the war he worked as a private teacher and librarian. In 1945 he had to leave Czechoslovakia and taught since June 1945 at the episcopal seminar and grammar school in Straubing and since May 1946 classical philology at the Philosophical-Theological University of Regensburg . In 1947 he was offered a position at the University of Greifswald , but stayed in Bavaria. In June 1950 he received his habilitation at the University of Munich with a thesis on the text history of Diogenes Laertios, but died shortly afterwards at the age of only 45 of a serious illness.

At the suggestion of his teacher Martini, Biedl dealt early on with the work of Diogenes Laertios and in particular his tradition.

He was married to Ingeborg Biedl, b. von Tschermak-Seysenegg (born June 22, 1912 in Vienna; † May 9, 1970 ibid), daughter of the physiologist Armin von Tschermak-Seysenegg , who teaches in Prague , with whom he has three daughters and a son, the computer scientist Albrecht Biedl (* 1938) , would have.

Fonts (selection)

  • De Memmiorum Familia . In: Wiener Studien 48, 1930, pp. 98-107.
  • The division of the sky according to the disciplina Etrusca . In: Philologus 86, 1931, pp. 199-214.
  • A Greek manuscript from the collection of Bohuslaw v. Lobkowicz . In: Communications from the Association for the History of Germans in Böhmen 71, 1933, pp. 95–119.
  • Matthaeus Camariotes Specimen prosopographiae byzantinae . In: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 35, 1935, pp. 338–339
  • Contributions to the history of the Codices Palatini graeci . In: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 37, 1937, pp. 18–41.
  • The handwriting writer Joannes Skutariotes. A sketch . In Byzantinische Zeitschrift 38, 1938, pp. 96-98.
  • A previously missing Leiden library catalog from the 17th century . In: Het boek 25, 1938, pp. 45-49.
  • The Heidelberg cod. Pal. gr. 129 - the collection of notes of a Byzantine scholar . In: Würzburger Yearbooks for Classical Studies 3, 1948, pp. 100-105.
  • The great excerpt Ф. On the text history of Laertios Diogenes (= Studi e testi 184). Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Città del Vaticano 1955 (prepared for printing by Karl Preisendanz).

literature

  • Karl Preisendanz : Artur Biedl in memory . In: Arthur Biedl: The large excerpt Ф . Città del Vaticano 1955, pp. 121-127.
  • Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Lands , Vol. 1. Oldenbourg, Munich, Vienna 1974, p. 92.
  • Rudolf M. Wlaschek: Biographia Judaica Bohemiae Vol. 1, Research Center East Central Europe, Dortmund 1995, p. 21.
  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 922.
  • Martin Sicherheitsl : Classical Philology at the German University of Prague 1849–1945 . In: Eikasmós 14, 2003, pp. 393-419.

Web links

annotation

  1. ↑ The spelling Artur is the correct name form used by himself in all his writings, not Arthur.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Central database of the names of Holocaust victims .
  2. ^ Unprinted, voluntary disclosure in the yearbook of the Philosophical Faculty of the German University in Prague 6, 1928/29 [1931], pp. 25-29.
  3. ^ So Karl Preisendanz: Artur Biedl in memory . In: Arthur Biedl: The large excerpt Ф . Città del Vaticano 1955, p. 123 Note 2. Deviating from this, Rudolf M. Wlaschek gives: Biographia Judaica Bohemiae . Vol. 1, Research Center East Central Europe, Dortmund 1995, p. 21, he was released in 1939 and survived the Theresienstadt ghetto .
  4. ^ Ingo Schröder: The state philosophical-theological universities in Bavaria from 1923 to 1978 . Dissertation Munich 2004, p. 122 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Biedl, Artur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1950
Place of death regensburg