Ernst Siegmann

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Ernst Georg Siegmann (born April 29, 1915 in Hamburg , † July 19, 1981 in Würzburg ) was a German classical philologist .

Siegmann studied from 1935 classical philology, ancient history and archeology at the University of Hamburg , where he was a student of Bruno Snell and received his doctorate in 1941 on Sophocles ' Ichneutai . Until 1948 he was a lecturer at the University of Hamburg. Then he moved to the University of Heidelberg , where he became Otto Regenbogen's assistant and in 1953 achieved his habilitation on Aeschylus ' satyr play fragments . In 1959 he was appointed an adjunct professor.

In 1960 he received a chair for classical philology at the University of Würzburg , where he taught Greek and Latin studies . He was dean twice and was a member of the university's senate.

Siegmann was married to Barbara Hauptmann, a granddaughter of Gerhart Hauptmann, and has three children and five grandchildren with her.

Fonts

  • Investigations into Sophocles' Ichneutai. In addition, some new readings in the Euryplos papyrus . Bonn / Hamburg 1941 (dissertation, University of Hamburg)
  • Literary Greek texts from the Heidelberg papyrus collection . Heidelberg 1956
  • Homer. Lectures on the Odyssey . Wuerzburg 1987

literature

  • Joachim Latacz (Ed.): Festschrift Ernst Siegmann for his 60th birthday. Würzburg Yearbooks for Classical Studies New Volume 1 (1975)
  • Joachim Latacz: Ernst Siegmann. In: Gnomon , Vol. 55, H. 3 (1983), pp. 280-284 JSTOR. Retrieved December 12, 2009 .
  • Erika Simon , Arbogast Schmitt (Ed.): Ernst Siegmann: 1915 - 1981. Speeches at the memorial ceremony of Ernst Siegmann's friends, colleagues and students on January 30, 1982. Königshausen + Neumann, Würzburg 1982

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