Friedrich Reinhold Dressler

Friedrich Reinhold Dressler (born November 27, 1845 in Bautzen ; † in the 20th century) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher .

Friedrich Reinhold Dressler, son of a grammar school teacher, attended grammar school in Bautzen and studied classical philology at the University of Leipzig from 1864 , where he received his doctorate in 1868 under Friedrich Ritschl . From December 1868 he taught at the Thomas School in Leipzig, after passing the teaching examination on July 30, 1869 from August 16, 1869 at the grammar school in Bautzen. From 1885 he taught at the Gymnasium in Wurzen .

Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher worked as vice-principal and rector at this grammar school . Like numerous other high school teachers, Dressler wrote articles for his detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . In particular, he published on Triton and the Tritons.

Publications (selection)

• Quaestiones criticae ad Maximi et Antonii gnomologias spectantes. Dissertation Leipzig 1868 ( digitized version ).
• The historical work of Ephorus after its fragments and its use by Diodorus . Bautzen 1873 ( digitized version ).
• Triton and the Tritons in the literature and art of the Greeks and Romans. 1st part . Wurzen 1892 ( digitized version ).
• Triton and the Tritons in the literature and art of the Greeks and Romans. 2nd part . Wurzen 1893 ( digitized ).
• Triton and the Tritons . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 5, Leipzig 1924, Col. 1150-1207 ( digitized version ).

literature

• Franz Kössler: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century. Daase - Dzialas . Giessen 2007.