Egidius Schmalzriedt

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Egidius Schmalzriedt (born March 30, 1935 in Leonberg ; † July 30, 2003 in Tübingen ) was a German classical philologist and historian of philosophy .

Life

Egidius Schmalzriedt, the son of the shoe manufacturer Egidius Schmalzriedt (1909–1988) and Maria Martha geb. Kauffmann (1912-2003), attended high school in Leonberg and from 1950 the humanistic high school in Korntal . After graduating from high school (1954) he studied classical philology, philosophy and German at the University of Tübingen . His formative academic teacher was Walter Jens , who received the first chair for general rhetoric in 1963. Schmalzriedt received his doctorate from him in 1965 . The habilitationfollowed in 1970, also with Jens, in the department of general rhetoric. Schmalzriedt then taught as an adjunct professor, from 1975 as C3 professor of ancient philosophy and general rhetoric. In 1994 he retired.

Schmalzriedt dealt with Greek philosophy and rhetoric. In his inaugural lecture (printed in 1971) he dealt critically with the concept of classical music. He collected relevant text documents from the 19th century and determined the most important stages of the German discourse on classical music. In addition to his academic teaching, Schmalzriedt was mainly active as an editor: he edited several volumes of the Kindlers Kulturgeschichte series (and was the general editor of the series) as well as the Dictionary of Mythology together with Hans Wilhelm Haussig , as well as Walter F. Otto's monograph Mythos und Welt (1962) and an authorized translation of Moses Hadas ' standard work on Hellenistic culture (1963). Schmalzriedt was part of the editorial team of the Historical Dictionary of Rhetoric and wrote several articles on ancient authors for Kindler's New Literary Lexicon . On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of Berthold Auerbach's death , in 1982 he published a selection of Black Forest village stories in the form of a richly illustrated "New People's Edition". The issue is dedicated to Walter Jens.

Schmalzriedt's collection of Turkmen carpets was donated to the Museum of the University of Tübingen in 2010 from his estate .

Fonts (selection)

  • Plato: The writer and the truth . Munich 1969 (Tübingen dissertation)
  • Peri physeos: On the early history of book titles . Munich 1970 (partial print of the habilitation thesis)
  • Inhumane Classical: Lecture against an educational cliché. With the most important documents on the tradition of a questionable term . Munich 1971 (inaugural lecture)
Editing
  • Walter F. Otto : Myth and World . Edited by Kurt von Fritz . Text revision and editing of the Schmalzriedt appendix. Stuttgart 1962
  • Moses Hadas : Hellenistic Culture. Becoming and effect . Stuttgart 1963
  • with Hans Wilhelm Haussig : Dictionary of Mythology . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1965 ff.
  • Major works of ancient literatures: individual representations and interpretations of Greek, Latin and biblical-patristic literature . Munich 1976
  • Auerbach, Berthold: Black Forest village stories. New popular edition. Edited and with an afterword by Egidius Schmalzriedt . Staufen Verlagsbuchhandel GmbH. Stuttgart 1982.

literature

  • Who is who? The German Who's Who . 41st edition, 2002, p. 1252
  • Markus Janka : Dialogue of the tragic. Love, delusion and knowledge in Sophocles '' Trachiniai 'and Euripides' 'Hippolytos' . Munich / Leipzig 2004, pp. 27–29

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Message from Ariane Grammer, March 21, 2013
  2. ↑ The family name is to be interpreted as a toponym for "Schmalzieg-Ried", "clearing populated by young deer goats". "Schmalziege" is to be understood as a synonym for "Schmalreh" or "Schmalgeiß", as a young deer goat that has not yet calved is called in the hunter's language. Accordingly, the family name "Schmalzigaug" explains itself as "Deer goose eye".
personal data
SURNAME Schmalzriedt, Egidius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and historian of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Leonberg
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 2003
Place of death Tübingen