Bruno Wedge

Bruno Keil (born July 8, 1859 in Havelberg , † March 23, 1916 in Leipzig ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

After attending the Joachimsthal School in Berlin, Keil began studying Classical Philology, Classical Archeology and German Studies at the local university in 1878 . He later moved to Bonn and finally in 1881 to Greifswald . His academic teachers were Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff , Georg Kaibel and Rudolf Hercher . His dissertation (1884) dealt with textual problems of the speeches of Isocrates and made groundbreaking results. After a year of internship at the Humboldt-Gymnasium in Berlin (1884/85), he traveled to Italy, Spain and France. In 1889 he got a permanent position at the Sophiengymnasium in Berlin .

In December 1890, Keil accepted an appointment at the University of Strasbourg as an associate professor of classical philology, which was made to him on Wilamowitzen's recommendation by Friedrich Althoff . Here he was a colleague of his former teacher Kaibel until 1897. In the summer semester of 1901, Keil was appointed personal professor and in the following year, after Eduard Schwartz's departure, he was appointed professor. He turned down calls to the universities of Halle and Göttingen . In the summer semester of 1914 he left Strasbourg and moved to the University of Leipzig , where he was made a full member of the Royal Saxon Academy of Sciences in 1915 . He died on March 26, 1916 at the age of 56.

Keil's research focus was the transmission and textual form of the ancient Greek rhetors from the Classical ( Aeschines , Demosthenes , Isocrates) to the Imperial Era ( Ailios Aristeides , Lukian ) to the Byzantine era. In later years he was also engaged in epigraphic studies.

Bruno Keil had been a full member of the German Archaeological Institute since 1903 . In 1904 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

literature

Peter Wirth : Wedge, Bruno. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 402 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Wikisource: Bruno Keil - Sources and full texts

Literature by and about Bruno Keil in the catalog of the German National Library
Bruno Keil's personal sheet in the BIL's personal file in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)

Overview of the courses taught by Bruno Keil at the University of Leipzig

Individual evidence

↑ See NDB 11, 402
^ William M. Calder III : Appointment Policy within Classical Studies in Wilhelmine Prussia: Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff's letters to Friedrich Althoff (1883–1908) , Frankfurt / Main 1989. p. 64, note 255.
↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 130.

personal data
SURNAME	Wedge, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 8, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH	Havelberg
DATE OF DEATH	March 23, 1916
Place of death	Leipzig

[1] See NDB 11, 402

[2] William M. Calder III : Appointment Policy within Classical Studies in Wilhelmine Prussia: Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff's letters to Friedrich Althoff (1883–1908) , Frankfurt / Main 1989. p. 64, note 255.

[3] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 130.