Gustav Heylbut

Gustav Heylbut (born June 13, 1852 in Hamburg ; † August 14, 1914 there ) was a German classical philologist.

Heylbut came from a Jewish family and grew up in Hamburg. He attended the Johanneum's school of scholars , where Adolph Kießling won him over for philology. After graduating from high school in 1872, Heylbut studied classical philology at the University of Bonn with Theodor Bergk , Jacob Bernays , Franz Bücheler and Hermann Usener and at the University of Berlin , where he heard Hermann Bonitz , Adolf Kirchhoff , Theodor Mommsen and Eduard Zeller . In 1876 he received his doctorate in Bonn with a dissertation on the work of Theophrastus About Friendship . During the doctorate of the archaeologist Hermann von Rohden in 1875, he had acted as an opponent. From 1878 to 1885 he worked as a librarian at the Göttingen University Library . He later worked as a private scholar in Hamburg and was commissioned to edit three volumes for the Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca (vols. 19, 1; 19, 2; 20). He donated a considerable sum to the Hamburger Kunsthalle and entrusted his estate to the Johanneum School of Academics, which he had attended as a pupil.

Fonts (selection)

• De Theophrasti libris Περὶ φιλίας. Diss. Phil. Bonn 1876, online (contains vita)
• Aspasii in ethica Nicomachea quae supersunt commentaria , 1889 ( Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca , 19, 1)
• Heliodori in ethica Nicomachea paraphrasis , 1889 ( Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca , 19, 2)
• Eustratii et Michaelis et Anonyma in ethica Nicomachea commentaria , 1892 (Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca, 20)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death register StA Hamburg 3, No. 374/1914
2. ^ Michael Werner: Foundation city and middle class. Hamburg's foundation culture from the German Empire to National Socialism. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2011 (Stadt und Bürgertum, Vol. 14), pp. 70–71 online .