Girolamo Vitelli

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Girolamo Vitelli (born July 27, 1849 in Santa Croce del Sannio , † September 2, 1935 in Spotorno ) was an Italian classical philologist and papyrologist .

Vitelli worked from 1874 to 1915 as a professor of classical philology at the University of Florence . He dealt with wide areas of ancient (especially Greek) literature. His research focus was the study of manuscripts and the history of transmission of ancient texts. He published numerous new discoveries of texts and from 1901 was responsible for purchasing the papyri.

Vitelli was a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (1890 corresponding, 1916 full member) and corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1893), the Prussian Academy of Sciences (July 15, 1897), the Royal Society of Sciences in Göttingen (1904) and foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences (April 9, 1920).

Fonts (selection)

  • Delle carte di Arboréa e delle poesie volgari in esse contenute . Bologna 1870
  • Intorno ad alcuni luoghi della Ifigenia in Aulide di Euripide osservazioni . Florence 1877
  • Aeschyli fabulae cum lectionibus et scholiis codicis Medicei et in Agamemnonem codicis Florentini . Berlin 1883 (with Nikolaus Wecklein )
  • Ioannis Philoponi in Aristotelis physicorum libros tres priores commentaria . Berlin 1887 ( CAG 14.2)
  • Ioannis Philoponi in Aristotelis physicorum libros quinque posteriores commentaria . Berlin 1888 ( CAG 17)
  • Ioannis Philoponi in Aristotelis libros de generatione et corruptione commentaria . Berlin 1897 ( CAG 17)

literature

  • Girolamo Vitelli, Filologia classica ... e romantica , Pref. di L. Canfora , post. di R. Pintaudi. La Finestra Editrice, Lavis 2018 ISBN 978-8895925-94-3
  • Medea Norsa : Ricordo di Girolamo Vitelli . In: Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Lettere, Storia e Filosofia . 2nd row, Volume 4 (1935), pp. 335–348 (with picture)
  • Rudolf Pfeiffer : Girolamo Vitelli † . In: Gnomon . Volume 11 (1935), pp. 670-672
  • In memoria di Girolamo Vitelli . Florence 1936 (with list of publications)
  • Aristide Calderini: Girolamo Vitelli . In: Aegyptus . Volume 9 (1936), pp. 176-178
  • Nicola Festa: Commemorazione di Girolamo Vitelli . In: Rendiconti della Reale accademia nazionale dei Lincei. Class di scienze morali, storiche e filologiche . Rome 1936
  • Vincenzo Arangio-Ruiz: Girolamo Vitelli . In: Bulletin de la Société Royale Archéologique d'Alexandrie . Volume 9 (1936/1937), pp. I-IV
  • Rosario Pintaudi, Cornelia Römer : Le lettere di Wilamowitz a Vitelli . In: Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa 3rd series, Volume 11 (1981), pp. 363-398
  • Werner Hartkopf: The Berlin Academy of Sciences: Your members and laureates 1700-1990 . Berlin 1992, p. 375
  • Goffredo Coppola: Scritti papirologici e filologici a cura di Vanna Maraglino . Bari 2006, pp. 79-85
  • Manfredo Manfredi: Girolamo Vitelli (1849-1935) . In: Mario Capasso (Ed.): Hermae. Scholars and Scholarship in Papyrology . Pisa 2007, pp. 45–52 (with picture)
  • Wolfgang Rösler : Hermann Diels and the fragments of the pre-Socratics , in: Annette M. Baertschi, Colin Guthrie King (ed.), The modern fathers of antiquity: The development of ancient studies at the academy and university in 19th century Berlin , Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 2009, p. 382, online
  • Wolfgang Rösler: Eduard Zeller and Hermann Diels , in: Gerald Hartung (ed.): Eduard Zeller: Philosophy and Science History in the 19th Century , Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, there p. 271 online

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