Eduard Liechtenhan

Eduard August Liechtenhan (born February 14, 1891 in Basel ; † October 29, 1965 there ) was a Swiss classical philologist and high school teacher.

Eduard Liechtenhan was the son of the businessman Eduard Liechtenhan and Rahel Elisabeth Liechtenhan (née Burckhardt); he came from the Basel patrician families Liechtenhan and Burckhardt , both families of the so-called Daigs . His older brother was Rudolf Liechtenhan .

He graduated from the grammar school in Basel in 1909 and then studied classical philology at the universities of Basel , Göttingen and Leipzig . He received his doctorate in Basel in 1917 with a thesis on Marcellus Empiricus . He continued to work with the medical writers of late antiquity, for example in 1928 he edited the work of Anthimus for the Corpus Medicorum Latinorum , and in 1968 the second edition of Marcellus Empiricus' De medicamentis, also for the Corpus Medicorum Latinorum . Professionally, he worked as a high school teacher in Basel and published books on school use.

Fonts (selection)

• Linguistic remarks on Marcellus Empiricus. Basel 1917.
• Contributions to the explanation and emendation of names of medicinal herbs etc. the first glossary of the «Codex Vaticanus Reginae Christinae 1260 saec. X. » (Corpus glossariorum Latinorum III 549-579). In: Archive for the History of Medicine 13, 1921, pp. 116–125.
• Anthimi De observatione ciborum ad Theodoricum regem Francorum epistula. iteratis curis edidit et in linguam Germanicam transtulit Eduard Liechtenhan. Teubner, Leipzig / Berlin 1928. 2nd edition Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1963. (= Corpus medicorum Latinorum , 8, 1) full text .
• with Eduard Sieber: Guide to the history of the Roman Empire. Basel 1939.
• with Hans Gutzwiller , Walter Cabinet: Gymnasium latinum. Latin exercise book in three parts with accompanying grammar. Basel 1944. 3rd edition Basel 1954.
• The aim of the uprising of the Rhine Army. In: Museum Helveticum 4, 1947, pp. 52–67.
• Marcelli De medicamentis liber , post Maximilianum Niedermann iteratis curis edidit Eduard Liechtenhan, in linguam Germanicam transtulerunt Jutta Kollesch et Diethard Nickel . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1968. (= Corpus medicorum Latinorum , 5) full text .