Felix Scheidweiler

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Felix Scheidweiler (born January 22, 1886 in Mönchengladbach ; † October 11, 1958 in Cologne-Lindenthal ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Felix Scheidweiler, the son of a railway official, attended the Marzellengymnasium until 1904 and then studied Classical Philology and German at the University of Bonn . In November 1908 he passed the state examination for the higher teaching post and shortly thereafter became Dr. phil. PhD . His doctoral thesis was a collection of the fragments of the Hellenistic writer Euphorion .

After graduating, Scheidweiler worked in school. First he completed the seminar and trial year at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Cologne, where he was employed as an assistant teacher on April 1, 1911. On October 1, he switched to the Neuwied grammar school as a senior teacher . From 1921 he taught as a teacher at the high school in Cologne-Mülheim and part-time as a lecturer at the Institute for Classical Studies at the University of Cologne . In 1949 he was appointed headmaster. After his retirement he taught from 1955 until his death as an honorary professor for the history of late Greek literature at the University of Bonn.

Scheidweiler's research was mainly devoted to Greek literature. He published essays and smaller treatises on the church fathers and edited several tragedies by Euripides after the Second World War . On behalf of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin , he edited the church history of Theodoret based on the edition by Léon Parmentier .

Fonts (selection)

  • Euphorionis fragmenta . Bonn 1908
  • The origin and legendary significance of the Seifridslied . Neuwied 1914
  • Euripides / Hippolytos. Text . Paderborn 1949
  • Euripides / The Trojans. Text . Paderborn 1949
  • Theodoret / Church History. Second edition . Berlin 1954
  • Euripides / Hippolytos. Explanations . Paderborn 1957
  • Euripides / The Trojans. Text . Paderborn 1958

literature

  • Religion in the past and present. Volume 1 . Tübingen 1965, p. 1976

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personal data
SURNAME Scheidweiler, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchengladbach
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1958
Place of death Cologne-Lindenthal