Georg Ferdinand Dümmler
Ferdinand Dümmler , full name Georg Ferdinand Dümmler, (born February 10, 1859 in Halle (Saale) , † November 15, 1896 in Basel ) was a German classical philologist and archaeologist .
Life
Ferdinand Dümmler was born in Halle an der Saale in 1859 . He was a grandson of the publisher Ferdinand Dümmler . Ferdinand Dümmler's father Ernst Ludwig Dümmler became an associate professor of history at the University of Halle in 1858 .
After graduating from school in 1877, Dümmler studied classical philology and classical archeology at the universities of Halle, Strasbourg and Bonn . He was most influenced by August Krohn (Halle) and Adolf Michaelis (Strasbourg). In Bonn his teachers were Franz Bücheler , Hermann Usener and Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz . In 1882 Dümmler received his doctorate with the dissertation Antisthenica . After graduating, he undertook intensive research trips to the Mediterranean countries; Archaeologist Wolfgang Helbig was one of his sponsors . After traveling in Greece and Italy, he traveled to the Aegean Islands and Cyprus in 1885 .
In 1887 Dümmler returned to Germany and got a job as a private lecturer at the University of Giessen . Here he dealt again with philological topics and habilitated in 1889 with the script Akademika . In the spring of 1890 he accepted a position at the University of Basel as a full professor of philology and archeology (as the successor to Jacob Achilles Mähly ). On November 15, 1896, he died after a short illness from the consequences of years of overwork.
He found his final resting place in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery in Basel.
literature
- Franz Studniczka : Duemmler, Ferdinand . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 48, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 163-166.
- Carl Werner Müller : Wilamowitz and Ferdinand Dümmler, a bad story . Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08672-2 .
- Carl Werner Müller: Müller, Georg Ferdinand. In: Peter Kuhlmann , Helmuth Schneider (Hrsg.): History of the ancient sciences. Biographical Lexicon (= The New Pauly . Supplements. Volume 6). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02033-8 , Sp. 336 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg Ferdinand Dümmler in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Dümmler, Georg Ferdinand |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dümmler, Ferdinand (common name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist and archaeologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1859 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle (Saale) |
DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 1896 |
Place of death | Basel |