Eva Sachs

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Eva Henriette Sachs (born April 13, 1882 in Berlin ; † September 1936 in Vienna ) was a German classical philologist and teacher.

Life

Eva Sachs, the daughter of the Jewish couple Emanuel Sachs and Minna geb. Lachmann, attended the Charlotte School from 1889 to 1898 , then the Victoria Lyceum until 1902 and then another grammar school, where she obtained the general university entrance qualification in 1904. She then studied history, epigraphy, philosophy and classical philology at the Berlin University as one of the few women and was a member of the Philological Seminar for three semesters and the History Seminar for seven semesters. Her dissertation De Theaeteto Atheniensi Mathematico ( "The mathematician Theaetetus of Athens") with which she was awarded a doctorate in 1914, she worked for the magazine The five Platonic solids: the history of mathematics and elements of Plato and the Pythagoreans to that in 1917 in the A series of philological studies by their teacher Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff appeared.

Although her work received very good reviews, her academic career failed. Due to the poor conditions of carriage for female university members, Sachs limited himself to the education authority for the next few years. Her life is hardly documented. She was given leave of absence for scientific work in the 1920s and left school on October 1, 1929. She died in September 1936 in a mental hospital in Vienna.

literature

  • William M. Calder III : Eva Sachs on Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff . In: Further Letters of Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff . Hildesheim 1994, ISBN 3-615-00099-4 , pp. 207-22.
  • Paul Dräger : Eva Sachs and Josefine von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff . In: Eikasmós . Volume 10, 1999, pp. 335-357.
  • Fabio Berdozzo: Two unpublished letters from Eva Sachs to Wilamowitz (on Men., Peric. 379–382) . In: Eikasmós . Volume 16 (2005), pp. 471-485

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personal data
SURNAME Sachs, Eva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sachs, Eva Henriette (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 1936
Place of death Vienna