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
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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
First chair: Emanuel Linder (1819–1843) | Wilhelm Vischer-Bilfinger (1832–1861) | Otto Ribbeck (1861–1862) | Adolph Kießling (1862–1869) | Friedrich Nietzsche (1869–1879) | Jacob Wackernagel (1879–1902) | Ferdinand Sommer (1902–1909) | Rudolf Herzog (1909–1914) | Werner Jaeger (1914–1915) | Peter von der Mühll (1917–1952) | Bernhard Wyss (1952–1976) | Joachim Latacz (1981-2002) | Anton Bierl (since 2002).
Second chair: Franz Dorotheus Gerlach (1819–1875) | Jacob Achilles Mähly (1875–1890) | Georg Ferdinand Dümmler (1890–1896) | Erich Bethe (1897–1903) | Alfred Körte (1903–1906) | Hermann Schöne (1906–1909) | Friedrich Münzer (1909–1912) | Ernst Lommatzsch (1912–1913) | Walter F. Otto (1913–1914) | Johannes Stroux (1914–1922) | Günther Jachmann (1922–1925) | Kurt Latte (1925–1931) | Harald Fuchs (1932–1970) | Josef Delz (1970–1987) | Fritz Graf (1987–1999) | Jerzy Styka (2000-2001) | Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer (since 2002).
Third chair: Franz Misteli (1879–1898) | Max Niedermann (1911–1925) | Jacob Wackernagel (1915–1936) | Albert Debrunner (1940–1949) | Karl Meuli (1942–1961) | Felix Heinimann (1966–1980).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| 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 |