Fritz Wehrli

Fritz Wehrli (born July 9, 1902 in Zurich ; † August 27, 1987 in Zurich) was a Swiss Graecist and editor of the fragment collection The School of Aristotle.

Fritz Wehrli, the brother of Germanist Max Wehrli , grew up in Zurich. After studying in Zurich (with Ernst Howald ), Kiel (with Eduard Fraenkel and Felix Jacoby ) and Basel (with Peter Von der Mühll ), he initially taught as a high school teacher. He completed his habilitation in 1930 at the University of Zurich , where he remained until his retirement (titular professor 1936, associate professor 1941, full professor of classical philology, especially Greek 1952–1967). His main interest was the intellectual history of antiquity, especially the history of ethics, as well as the history of motifs. In 1944, together with other specialists from Switzerland, he founded the Museum Helveticum magazine in order to create a publication that was independent of Germany. With the collection of the fragments of the school of Aristotle he created an indispensable working tool.

Publications

• On the history of Homer's allegorical interpretation (1928)
• LATHE BIOSAS, Studies on the oldest ethics among the Greeks (1931)
• Motive studies for Greek comedy (1936)
• The school of Aristotle 2nd edition, Schwabe, Basel 1967/69
• Main directions of Greek thought (1964)
• Theoria and Humanitas. Collected Writings on the Ancient World of Thought (1972)

literature

• Christian Baertschi: Wehrli, Fritz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Walter Burkert : Spirit of Antiquity. On the death of Fritz Wehrli . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . August 31, 1987, p. 19
• The University of Zurich 1933–1983 . Published by the Rectorate of the University of Zurich, overall editor: Peter Stadler . Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-85823-086-3 , pp. 509 f., 717.

Web links

• H. Haffter: An overview of classical antiquity at the University of Zurich
• Literature by and about Fritz Wehrli in the catalog of the German National Library