Berthold Haesler

Berthold Häsler (born May 23, 1909 in Steglitz near Berlin , † March 17, 1982 in Halle an der Saale ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Berthold Häsler studied classical philology at the University of Berlin , where he in 1935 with a thesis Favorin about the banishment doctorate was. He then worked as a high school teacher. When the Second World War broke out , he was drafted into the Wehrmacht. From 1946 he worked as a research assistant at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin on the papyrus collections. At the Academy Institute for Hellenistic-Roman Philosophy he was head of the work on Epicurus under the Institute Director and Academy President Johannes Stroux . There he collected and edited the remains of Epicurus' main work On Nature and created a bibliography on Epicurus with a directory of all papiri published at the time. From 1953 he was also a lecturer in classical philology at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

In 1956, Häsler was commissioned to hold a lectureship in classical philology at the University of Rostock . In 1960 he moved to Halle, where he was given a professorship with a teaching assignment for classical philology. Häsler stayed in Halle until the end of his life. In 1963 he achieved his habilitation here . According to the judgment of his later colleague Joachim Ebert, "his teaching activities had no lasting effect" . In 1974 Häsler retired. His professorship remained vacant until 1986.

Fonts

Berthold Häsler: Favorin: About banishment , dissertation, University of Berlin, Philos. Faculty, Berlin 1935.
Berthold Häsler (Ed.): Contributions to a new Winckelmann picture , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1973.
Berthold Häsler (Ed.): Plutarchi Moralia , Teubner, Leipzig 1978.

literature

Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , 11th Edition (1970), p. 960.

Web links

Entry on Berthold Häsler in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

Individual evidence

^ Message from the Halle City Archives dated October 6, 2010.
^ German Academy of Sciences in Berlin: Yearbook of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin 1950–1951 . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1951, p. 143
↑ Joachim Ebert (Ed.): 100 Years of the Archaeological Museum in Halle 1891–1991. On the history of the Robertinum, its collections and scientific disciplines , Halle (Saale) 1991. p. 50.

personal data
SURNAME	Haesler, Berthold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Häsler, Theodor Berthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 23, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin-Steglitz
DATE OF DEATH	March 17, 1982
Place of death	Halle (Saale)

[1] Message from the Halle City Archives dated October 6, 2010.

[2] German Academy of Sciences in Berlin: Yearbook of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin 1950–1951 . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1951, p. 143

[3] Joachim Ebert (Ed.): 100 Years of the Archaeological Museum in Halle 1891–1991. On the history of the Robertinum, its collections and scientific disciplines , Halle (Saale) 1991. p. 50.