Emil Thomas (Philologist)

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Emil Thomas

Emil Thomas (born August 8, 1858 in Schroda , Posen Province ; † February 14, 1923 in Berlin ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Emil Thomas, the son of the lawyer Boleslav Thomas and Elisa geb. Curlew, initially received private tuition and from 1868 attended the grammar school in Krotoschin , where his father was transferred that same year. After graduating in Easter 1876, Thomas studied classical philology, German , history and philosophy . He began his studies at the University of Leipzig , where he took part in the philological seminar under Justus Hermann Lipsius , the societas grammatica under Georg Curtius and the societas philosophica under Carl Göring . In the winter semester of 1876/77 he moved to Jena , where he attended the philological seminar for two semesters (under the direction of Erwin Rohde , Alfred von Gutschmid and Moriz Schmidt ) and attended paleographic exercises with Eduard Sievers .

In the winter semester of 1877/78, Thomas moved to the University of Bonn , which at that time was one of the most important places to study for ancient scholars thanks to the work of Professors Franz Bücheler and Hermann Usener . Thomas also entered the philological seminar there, as well as the Bonn Circle and the Philological Association . He attended Oscar-Umbrian language exercises with Bücheler. After two semesters, he changed his place of study for the last time and went to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . There he attended lectures and exercises in German philology with Karl Müllenhoff , in philosophy with Eduard Zeller , in epigraphy with Adolf Kirchhoff and in Latin philology with Johannes Vahlen . He was also in charge of Thomas' dissertation on Seneca the Elder , with which he was awarded a doctorate on May 31, 1880. phil. received his doctorate .

After completing his studies, Thomas first lived in Krotoschin, then in Breslau . In 1892 he completed his habilitation at the Berlin University of Classical Philology and has taught there since then as a private lecturer. In 1911 the Philosophical Faculty awarded him the title of professor. On behalf of the Prussian Academy of Sciences , Thomas contributed to the Kant- Gesamtausgabe, for which he edited the Latin scripts; he also edited the Metaphysica by Kant's contemporary Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten .

Thomas' research focus was the philosophy of antiquity, especially Aristotle and the younger Seneca . He published several essays and monographs on the textual criticism of their writings.

Fonts (selection)

  • Schedae criticae in Senecam rhetorem selectae . Berlin 1880 (dissertation)
  • De Velleiani voluminis condicione aliquot capita . Berlin 1893 (habilitation thesis)
  • Schedae criticae novae in Senecam Rhetorem . In: Philologus . Supplementary Volume 8 (1900), pp. 157-298
  • Studies in the history of Latin and Greek languages . Berlin 1912
Editing
  • Kant's collected writings . Published by the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. Third section: Kant's handwritten estate . Volume III: Anthropology . First and second part, Berlin 1913
  • with Otto Plasberg and Wilhelm Heraeus : Johannes Vahlen. Collected philological writings. Volume 2: Writings from the Berlin period 1874–1911 . Leipzig / Berlin 1923
  • Kant's collected writings . Published by the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. Third section: Kant's handwritten estate . Volume IV: Metaphysics . First part. Berlin 1926

literature

  • Album of the Bonner Kreis. Printed as handwriting. 1854-1906 . Bonn 1906, p. 32 (No. 197)
  • Central literary sheet for Germany . Volume 74 (1923), p. 202
  • Dietrich Ehlers (ed.): Correspondence. Hermann Diels, Hermann Usener, Eduard Zeller . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-05-001124-6 . Volume 1, p. 468; Volume 2, p. 253.

Web links

Wikisource: Emil Thomas  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Vita of his dissertation (1880).
  2. ^ Album of the Bonner Kreis. Printed as handwriting. 1854-1906 . Bonn 1906, p. 32 (No. 197)
  3. ^ Chronicle of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität for the financial year 1911 . P. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Thomas, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Schroda , Poznan Province
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1923
Place of death Berlin