Ernst Maass (philologist)

Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem Townleyana , 1887

Ernst Wilhelm Theodor Maass , also Maaß (born April 12, 1856 in Kolberg , † November 11, 1929 in Marburg ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Ernst Maass attended grammar school in his hometown and from 1875 studied classical philology, first in Tübingen , later in Greifswald , where he received his doctorate in 1879 with Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff with the dissertation De Sibyllarum indicibus . In 1880/81 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . He achieved his habilitation in Berlin in 1883 with the font Analecta Eratosthenica . Although both his habilitation thesis and the continuation of his dissertation (entitled De Biographis Graecis quaestiones selectae ) were controversial, he managed to establish himself in the academic world. In 1886 he was appointed to the Chair of the University of Greifswald, succeeding George Kaibel . A year later he married Berta Vahlen, the daughter of the Berlin philologist Johannes Vahlen , with whom he had four children.

In Greifswald he wrote his work, which is still important today, the edition of the Phainomena des Arat by Soloi (1893, reprint 1964). In the academic year 1893/1894 he served as dean of the philosophical faculty. In 1895 he followed a call to the Philipps University of Marburg as the successor to Georg Wissowa . In Marburg he was director of the Classical Philology seminar until his retirement in 1924. In 1900 he was elected Dean of the Philosophical Faculty, in 1910 Rector of the University. From 1901 he suffered from poor eyesight. On October 1, 1924, he was retired.

In Marburg, Maass wrote his edition of the ancient Arat commentaries (1898). He turned increasingly to religious studies ( Orpheus , 1895; The Gods of the Day in Rome and the Provinces , 1902) and Goethe's relationship to antiquity.

In 1903 the Austrian Archaeological Institute selected him as a corresponding member. Since 1912 he was a member of the Marburg Burschenschaft Rheinfranken .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5734, p. 86 ( digitized version ).
2. ↑ Supplement to the ordinance sheet for the service area of ​​the Ministry of Culture and Education . Born 1903, Vienna 1903, Piece XIII, p. 167.
3. ^ Marburg Burschenschaft Rheinfranken

literature

• Franz Gundlach: Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis 1527-1910 . Marburg 1927, p. 341f.
• Inge Auerbach: Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis. Second volume: 1910 to 1971 . Marburg 1979, p. 562
• Wilfried Fiedler:  Maass, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 599 f. ( Digitized version ).
• William M. Calder III , Alexander Košenina (editor): Appointment policy within classical studies in Wilhelmine Prussia. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff's letters to Friedrich Althoff 1883–1908 . Frankfurt am Main 1989, p. 14; 29; 108.
• Hermann Diels, Hermann Usener, Eduard Zeller. Correspondence . Edited by Dietrich Ehlers. First volume, Berlin 1992, pp. 401-403; Second volume, Berlin 1992, p. 113; 155
• “A son from a friend”. Theodor Mommsen and Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, correspondence 1872–1903 . 2 volumes, Weidmann, Hildesheim 2003, ISBN 3-615-00285-7 .

Web links

Wikisource: Ernst Maass  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Ernst Maass in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature on Ernst Maaß in the state bibliography MV