Aubrey Diller

Aubrey Diller (born July 15, 1903 in Diller , Nebraska , † September 5, 1985 in Monroe County , Indiana ) was an American classical philologist .

life and work

Aubrey Diller studied Classical Philology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln ( Bachelor 1925, Master 1927) and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where he received his Ph. D. in 1930 . From 1930 to 1934 he taught Greek at the University of Michigan . After a research grant from the American Council of Learned Societies (1935/36), he taught at Heidelberg College in Tiffin (Ohio) from 1936 to 1938 and from 1938 as Assistant Professor of Greek at Indiana University Bloomington . In 1954 he was appointed Full Professor of Greek and retired in 1968 .

Diller's research focused on the transmission history of the ancient Greek writers, especially the geographers and mythographers. In 1951/1952 he was a Guggenheim Fellow ; 1961 followed a research stay at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library.

Diller died as a result of a fall in the Morgan-Monroe State Forest in Monroe County , Indiana .

Fonts (selection)

• Race Mixture among the Greeks before Alexander (= Illinois Studies in Language and Literature. 20, 1/2, ISSN  0073-5175 ). University of Illinois, Urbana IL 1937, (Also: Urbana (Illinois), University, Dissertation, 1930).
• The tradition of Stephanus Byzantius. In: Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. Vol. 69, 1938, ISSN  0065-9711 , pp. 333-348, doi : 10.2307 / 283183 .
• The tradition of the minor Greek geographers (= American Philological Association. Philological Monographs. 14, ZDB -ID 418575-4 ). American Philological Association, New York NY et al. 1952, (Unchanged Reprint. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1986, ISBN 90-256-0877-9 ).
• Claudius Ptolemaeus: Geographia. Edidit CFA Nobbe . Cum introduction to Aubrey Diller. Hildesheim 1966, (Reprographic reprint of the stereotype edition Leipzig 1843–1845. 3 volumes in 1 volume).
• The Textual Tradition of Strabo's Geography. With appendix: The Manuscripts of Eustathius' Commentary on Dionysius Periegetes. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1975, ISBN 90-256-0728-4 .
• Studies in Greek Manuscript Tradition. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1983, ISBN 90-256-0837-X .

literature

• Mark L. Sosower: Diller, Aubrey. In: Ward W. Briggs (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists. Greenwood, Westport CT et al. 1994, ISBN 0-313-24560-6 , p. 137.
• Dennis Rawlins: Aubrey Diller Legacies. In: DIO. Vol. 5, 2009, ISSN  1041-5440 , pp. 3-42, ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Entry on Aubrey Diller in the Database of Classical Scholars, written by Mark L. Sosower (English)
• Obituary for Aubrey Diller at Indiana University, Bloomington (English)