Franz Stoessl
Franz Stoessl (born May 2, 1910 in Vienna , † August 6, 1988 in Graz ) was an Austrian classical philologist .
Franz Stoessl, the son of the writer Otto Stoessl , studied Classical Philology, Indo-European Studies , History and Philosophy at the University of Vienna . After receiving his doctorate (1933), he taught as a high school teacher from 1934. After the annexation of Austria , he was dismissed in 1938 because of his Jewish origin and emigrated to Switzerland. In 1939 he was employed as a private lecturer at the University of Zurich and in 1948 he was appointed adjunct professor.
In 1950 he emigrated to Canada , where he worked as an assistant professor at the University of New Brunswick . In 1952 he returned to Vienna and initially worked at the University of Vienna as a private lecturer and from 1954 as an associate professor. For his services in research and teaching, he received the Theodor-Körner-Prize in 1954 and 1958 and the City of Vienna's Promotion Prize for Science in 1957. In 1957 Stoessl moved to Graz University as an associate professor . He stayed here until the end of his life, from 1964 as a full professor.
Stoessl's research focused on Greek tragedy ( Aeschylus ) and New Comedy ( Menander ), on the prehistory of Greek theater and on Greek historiography (especially Thucydides ). He also published essays and monographs on Roman poetry ( Catullus and Ovid ). He was co-editor of the Graz contributions: Journal of Classical Philology .
literature
- Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 3: S – Z, Register. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 1332.
- Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , 13th Edition (1980), p. 3847.
- Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , 16th Edition (1992), p. 4271.
Web links
- Literature by and about Franz Stoessl in the catalog of the German National Library
- Stoessl , life and work, revised. Fass. 2018, after Utz Maas , persecution and emigration of German-speaking linguists 1933–1945 (Print 2010)
First chair: Albert Muchar (1827–1849) | Karlmann Tangl (1850–1863) | Karl Schenkl (1863–1875) | Otto Keller (1875–1881) | Alois Goldbacher (1882–1908) | Josef Mesk (1909–1914) | Richard Meister (1918–1920) | Karl Mras (1921–1933) | Otmar Schissel von Fleschenberg (1926–1943) | Carl Koch (1943–1945) | Endre von Ivánka (1947–1961) | Karl Vretska (1961–1971) | Eugen Dönt (1971–1981) | Walter Pötscher (1982–1997) | Eveline Krummen (since 1999)
Second chair: Emanuel Hoffmann (1850–1856) | Max Theodor von Karajan (1857–1904) | Richard Cornelius Kukula (1905-1919) | Karl Prinz (1919–1939) | Hans Gerstinger (1940–1960) | Franz Stoessl (1961–1981) | Franz Ferdinand Schwarz (1982–1996) | Ursula Gärtner (since 2016)
Third chair: Wilhelm Kergel (1871–1891) | Heinrich Schenkl (1892–1917) | Josef Mesk (1917–1940)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stoessl, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 1988 |
| Place of death | Graz |