Franz Burger (philologist)

Franz Xaver Burger (born May 24, 1880 in Apfeltrach ; † April 4, 1933 ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher.

Burger studied classical philology at the University of Munich , where he received his doctorate in 1904 with a thesis on the relationship between Minucius Felix and the philosopher Seneca . From 1905 to 1908 he was a research assistant at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae and wrote articles for volumes 1 to 4. Afterwards he worked as a high school teacher at the Old Realgymnasium in Munich. There was Ernst Heimeran his pupil, he brought ancient texts on the idea of producing a series of bilingual editions, the Tuskulum books (later collection Tusculum ). Burger himself published the first volume with odes and epodes of Horace in 1923.

literature

• Ernst Heimeran: Teachers We Had , Munich 1955, pp. 115–125.
• Heinz Haffter : Former Thesaurus employees , in: ders., Et in Arcadia ego: Essays, Feuilletons, Gedenkworte , Baden 1981, pp. 171–172.
• Theodor Bögel : Thesaurus Stories. Contributions to a Historia Thesauri linguae Latinae with an appendix: Directory of persons 1893–1995 . Edited by Dietfried Krömer and Manfred Flieger. Stuttgart 1996, pp. 192, 212.