August Oehler

August Oehler , actually Karl August Mayer , (* 1881 in Vienna , Austria , † January 7, 1920 in Leysin , Canton of Vaud , Switzerland ) was an Austrian philologist and poet.

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Oehler was a classmate of Stefan Zweig at high school , studied philology and then did his doctorate in Vienna. He then worked in Vienna as a private lecturer in classical philology until his death. He got to know Stefan George , whose circle he joined and wrote various poems for the " Blätter für die Kunst " between 1897 and 1899. B. wrote about Ephebe . His best known was "The Ephebe Festival". Outwardly, he led an inconspicuous bourgeois life and published some writings that dealt with ancient Greek literature.

August Oehler was considered a great hope for Austrian philology. His early death from lung disease at the age of only 39 ended a brilliant career. After his death a book with Greek epigrams from antiquity, which he had translated, was published and is still considered one of the best works on this subject in German today.

Works

• Theophrasti Peri Lexeos Libri Fragmenta , (Editor), 1910
• Spiritual Italy against the war , 1916
• Antigone , (translator, editor)
• The wreath of Meleager from Gadara , 1920, (posthumous), epigrams from ancient times

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• Bernd-Ullrich Hergemöller: Man for Man, Männerschwarm Verlag, Hamburg, 1998, ISBN 978-3928983655