Bernhard Wyss (classical philologist)
Bernhard Wyss (born October 22, 1905 in Chaluet near Court ; † September 6, 1986 ) was a Swiss classical philologist .
Life
Bernhard Wyss attended the humanistic canton school in Aarau and studied classical philology and ancient history at the universities of Zurich and Basel . From 1930 he supervised the recently introduced elementary courses in Greek and Latin. In 1933 he received his doctorate with Peter von der Mühll with a dissertation on Antimachos von Kolophon .
After receiving his doctorate Wyss worked at the Humanities College of the city of Basel , where he was appointed in 1933 (age 27) as rector. In 1943, while on active service , he qualified as a professor in Classical Philology. In 1945 he was entrusted with the representation of the Department of Ancient History at the University of Basel, since the retirement of Felix Staehelin was vacant (1944). In 1952 Wyss was appointed as the successor to his teacher Peter von der Mühll to the Graecist chair, which he held until his retirement (1976). In the academic year 1967/1968 he was the rectorate of the university. From 1957 to 1972 he was President of the Federal Matura Commission.
literature
- Felix Heinimann: Professor Bernhard Wyss . In: uni nova: Communications from the University of Basel . Volume 44 (1986), pp. 12-13
- Christoph Schäublin : Catalepton. Festschrift for Bernhard Wyss on his 80th birthday . Basel 1985
- Who's Who in Switzerland 1980/1981 . P. 716
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Individual evidence
Felix Staehelin (1931–1944) | Bernhard Wyss (1945–1952) | Andreas Alföldi (1952–1956) | Denis van Berchem (1956–1963) | Christian Meier (1966–1968; 1973–1976) | Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg (1978–2006) | Aloys Winterling (2007–2009) | Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner (2012–2014) | Sabine Hübner (since 2014)
First chair: Emanuel Linder (1819–1843) | Wilhelm Vischer-Bilfinger (1832–1861) | Otto Ribbeck (1861–1862) | Adolph Kießling (1862–1869) | Friedrich Nietzsche (1869–1879) | Jacob Wackernagel (1879–1902) | Ferdinand Sommer (1902–1909) | Rudolf Herzog (1909–1914) | Werner Jaeger (1914–1915) | Peter von der Mühll (1917–1952) | Bernhard Wyss (1952–1976) | Joachim Latacz (1981-2002) | Anton Bierl (since 2002).
Second chair: Franz Dorotheus Gerlach (1819–1875) | Jacob Achilles Mähly (1875–1890) | Georg Ferdinand Dümmler (1890–1896) | Erich Bethe (1897–1903) | Alfred Körte (1903–1906) | Hermann Schöne (1906–1909) | Friedrich Münzer (1909–1912) | Ernst Lommatzsch (1912–1913) | Walter F. Otto (1913–1914) | Johannes Stroux (1914–1922) | Günther Jachmann (1922–1925) | Kurt Latte (1925–1931) | Harald Fuchs (1932–1970) | Josef Delz (1970–1987) | Fritz Graf (1987–1999) | Jerzy Styka (2000-2001) | Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer (since 2002).
Third chair: Franz Misteli (1879–1898) | Max Niedermann (1911–1925) | Jacob Wackernagel (1915–1936) | Albert Debrunner (1940–1949) | Karl Meuli (1942–1961) | Felix Heinimann (1966–1980).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wyss, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chaluet at Court |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 6, 1986 |