Dieter Irmer

Dieter Irmer (born February 9, 1935 in Wittenberge ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

After studying Classical Philology at the University of Hamburg , Irmer received his doctorate in 1961 with the dissertation On the Primacy of Codex S in Demosthenes criticism . From 1963 he worked as a research assistant at the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae . Together with Joseph-Hans Kühn and others, he edited the Index Hippocraticus , which was published in 1989. Together with Anargyros Anastassiou, he published the testimonies and a supplement in 1997 and 1999.

In addition to his lifelong preoccupation with the Corpus Hippocraticum , Irmer researched the handwritten tradition of Demosthenes. In 1972 he presented the monograph On the Genealogy of the Younger Demosthenes Manuscripts . As part of his work on the history of tradition and textual criticism, Irmer has also translated the relevant philological-historical study by Sebastiano Timpanaro on Lachmann's method .

Fonts (selection)

translation

• Sebastiano Timpanaro: La genesi del metodo del Lachmann (Florence: Le Monnier 1963; nuova edizione riveduta e ampliata, Padua: Liviana 1981; most recently Turin: UTET 2004). German: The origin of the Lachmann method . Second, ext. u. revised Authorized translation from Italian by Dieter Irmer. Hamburg: Buske 1971. (For the German edition expanded and revised by the author.)

items

• Demosthenes 54, 11-12: a medical "report". In: Medizinhistorisches Journal 2, 1967, pp. 54-62.

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholarly Calendar , 21st edition (2007), p. 1757.

Web links

• Literature by and about Dieter Irmer in the catalog of the German National Library