Friedrich Geiger (classical philologist)

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Karl Friedrich Geiger (born November 26, 1890 in Erfurt , † 1914 at Semendria ) was a German classical philologist .

Friedrich Geiger attended grammar school in Arnstadt from 1901 to 1905 , then the Heinrich Mann grammar school in Erfurt. After graduation in the spring of 1909, he studied Classical Philology, Geography and Ancient History at the University of Halle . His teachers included Friedrich Bechtel , Otto Kern , Benedikt Niese , Karl Praechter and Carl Robert . The classical philologist and religious scholar Georg Wissowa , who encouraged Geiger to write his dissertation on the Roman priests , had a particular influence . In July 1913 Geiger was with the dissertation De sacerdotibus Augustorum municipalibus doctorate . Wissowa also mediated Geiger as a collaborator for the new edition of the Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE), which had been operated by Wilhelm Kroll since 1906 . Geiger contributed several religious studies articles for the company, including the keyword Sacra (1) (Volume IA, 2, Sp. 1656–1664). He also created a register of all addenda and corrections that had appeared in volumes 1–10 and in the first three supplements.

Friedrich Geiger died at Semendria in the first months of the First World War .

literature

  • Georg Wissowa: Obituary for Franz Richter . In: Hundert Jahre: A. Marcus and E. Webers Verlag, 1818–1918 , Bonn 1919, p. 59f.
  • Jörg Rüpke : Fasti Sacerdotum , Volume 1 (2005), p. 1563.

Web links

Wikisource: Friedrich Geiger  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A directory of all Geiger's contributions to RE can be found as a register at Wikisource .
  2. ^ Friedrich Geiger: Register (Volume XI) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XI, 2, Stuttgart 1922, Sp. 2529-2560.
  3. ^ Advertisement in the chronicle of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , 1913/1914, p. 51.
personal data
SURNAME Geiger, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH 1914
Place of death at Semendria