Fritz Hellmann

This article deals with the philologist Fritz Hellmann. For the musician of the same name, see Fritz Hellmann (musician) , for other people see Friedrich Hellmann .

Fritz Hellmann (born April 3, 1908 in Frankfurt am Main , † February 6, 1945 in Italy ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Fritz Hellmann, the son of the official building officer Paul Hellmann, attended preschool from 1915 to 1918 and the humanistic Lessing grammar school from 1918 to 1927 . After graduation, he studied Classical Philology, Ancient History and Archeology at the University of Frankfurt am Main , where he attended lectures by Karl Reinhardt and Matthias Gelzer , among others . Hellmann spent the third semester at the University of Vienna . Here he attended lectures and exercises with Hans von Arnim and Ludwig Radermacher . For the sixth semester, Hellmann moved to the University of Berlin , where he worked closely with Werner Jaeger . He also attended courses with Paul Maas , Eduard Norden , Karl Deichgräber , Wilhelm Weber , Friedrich Solmsen and Ludwig Deubner .

On July 6, 1933 Hellmann was the thesis of Herodotus Croesus logos doctorate . In the vita of his dissertation, he especially thanks his mentor and doctoral supervisor Werner Jaeger (co-supervisor was Ludwig Deubner). The first part of the dissertation appeared in print as early as 1933. The following year the book appeared in an expanded form as Book 9 of Jaeger's New Philological Studies . In the following years Hellmann worked as a lecturer in Classical Philology at Berlin University.

During the time of National Socialism , Hellmann joined the NSDAP . He published various articles in party-affiliated magazines. His habilitation thesis Livius Interpretations (Berlin 1939) was also ideologically colored.

In 1941 Fritz Hellmann was traded by the appointment committee of the University of Freiburg as a successor to the vacant chair for Classical Philology, which Eduard Fraenkel had held until 1934 and Hans Oppermann as its representative . Hellmann was second on the list of appointments between Karl Büchner and Friedrich Mehmel . His placement was justified in an expert opinion mainly with his party-loyal attitude: "Hellmann should be pretty much the only one among the young Latinists whose scientific work is oriented in this way." The call went to Karl Büchner after the decision of the faculty.

Hellmann fell in the Second World War , a few months before the end of the war, on February 6, 1945 in Italy.

Web links

• Literature by and about Fritz Hellmann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Fritz Hellmann in the vita of his dissertation Herodots Kroisos-Logos , Graefenhainichen 1933 (without page number).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Gnomon , Volume 21 (1949), p. 95.
3. ^ ^{A b} Jürgen Malitz : Classical Philology . In: Eckhard Wirbelauer (ed.): The Freiburg Philosophical Faculty 1920–1960. Members - structures - networks . Freiburg / Munich 2006, pp. 344-345 ( online ).