Hans Diller

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Hans Diller (born September 8, 1905 in Worms , † December 15, 1977 in Kiel ) was a classical philologist and historian of medicine in ancient Greece .

life and work

Hans Diller received his doctorate in Hamburg in 1930 with a dissertation on the Hippocratic writing Über die Umwelt (also: Über Lüfte, Gewässer und Örtlichkeit ) and habilitated in Leipzig in 1932 with a script also related to this text. The following year he moved to Hamburg as a private lecturer and assistant to Bruno Snell and Ernst Kapp. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . In 1935 he became a substitute professor at the University of Rostock. In 1937 he applied for party membership and in the same year became an associate professor at the University of Rostock . His application to join the party was granted in 1940 and he became a member of the NSDAP . Finally, in 1942, he accepted the call from the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel as a full professor of classical philology, where he remained until his retirement .

In the post-war period he was able to declare his party membership to the denazification commission in such a way that he remained in office as a full professor in Kiel without interruption, where he played a decisive role in the reconstruction of the university after the reopening of the university, which was destroyed in 1944, in 1947-49 as dean Philosophical Faculty, 1950/51 as rector of the CAU. In 1948 he succeeded in engaging Walter Bröcker from Rostock as professor of philosophy at the CAU. He declined later calls to Mainz (1952), Cologne (1958) and Hamburg (1960). In 1951 he became scientific director of the Schleswig-Holstein University Society , which he remained until 1970. In 1952 he became a full member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz . For his services to the University of Kiel, he was awarded the University Medal in 1961 and the honor of an Honorary Senator in 1962.

One of his main areas of work was the study of Hippocratic medicine. In addition, he also dealt with Greek tragedians. In 1962 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens for his scientific achievements . and in 1964 an honorary doctorate from the Medical Faculty in Kiel

His students include Detlev Fehling , Hermann Grensemann , Eckard Lefèvre , Cay Lienau , Hans-Joachim Newiger , Gert Preiser , Hans Seyffert and Renate Wittern-Sterzel .

Fonts

Monographs
  • The tradition of the Hippocratic script Peri aerōn hydatōn topōn. Dieterich, Leipzig 1932.
  • Traveling doctor and aitiologist. Studies of the Hippocratic writing Peri aerōn ydatōn topōn. Dieterich, Leipzig 1934.
  • The Bacchae and Their Position in Euripides' Late Work. Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz 1955 (= Academy of Sciences and Literature. Treatises of the humanities and social science class. Born 1955, No. 5). 21 pages.
  • Small writings on ancient literature. Edited by Hans-Joachim Newiger and Hans Seyffert. Beck, Munich 1971 (with list of writings 1932–1970; short biography p. 635 f.).
  • Small writings on ancient medicine. Edited by Gerhard Baader and Hermann Grensemann. De Gruyter, Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-11-001799-7 .
Text editions and translations
  • Hippocrates: writings. The beginnings of western medicine. Translated and edited with introductions, an essay for understanding the scriptures and a bibliography. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1962; New edition under the title Selected Writings. With a bibliographical appendix by Karl-Heinz Leven . Stuttgart, Reclam 1994, ISBN 3-15-009319-8 (short curriculum vitae p. 342 f.).
  • Hippocrates: About the environment. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1970 ( Corpus Medicorum Graecorum 1,1,2). 2nd, unchanged edition 1998.
various
  • On Galen's conception of Hippocrates. In: Hermes. Volume 68, 1933.
  • To Sextus Placitus. In: Philologus XCVII. Leipzig 1948, pp. 363–365.
  • The Atlantis Report as a Platonic Myth. In: Richard Weyl (ed.): Atlantis riddled? Scientists comment on Jürgen Spanuth's Atlantis hypothesis. Mühlau, Kiel 1953, pp. 7-12.
  • The poetic form of Hesiods Erga (= treatises of the humanities and social science class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Born 1962, No. 2).
  • as ed. with Karl Deichgräber and Heinz Goerke : Ars medica. Texts and studies on source studies in ancient medicine. Series of publications by the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Free University of Berlin. II. Department: Greco-Latin Medicine. Berlin 1968 ff.

literature

  • In memoriam Hans Diller. In: Christiana Albertina. New series, Vol. 9, 1977, pp. 1-13 (special edition).
  • Ernst Klee : The Personal Lexicon for the Third Reich: Who Was What Before and After 1945? Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-10-039309-0 , p. 111.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Gnomon . 1933, Volume 9, p. 672.
  2. a b c d Afterword of the ed. in: Hans Diller: Small writings on ancient literature. Edited by Hans-Joachim Newiger and Hans Seyffert. Beck, Munich 1971, pp. 635-637.
  3. a b c Ernst Klee : The Personal Lexicon for the Third Reich: Who Was What Before and After 1945? Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-10-039309-0 , p. 111.
  4. Rector's speech (HKM) .
  5. Gnomon . 1949, Vol. 21, p. 378.
  6. ^ In memoriam Hans Diller. In: Christiana Albertina. New series, Vol. 9, 1977, pp. 1-13, here p. 7 f.
  7. Gnomon . 1952, Volume 24, p. 304.
  8. ^ In memoriam Hans Diller. In: Christiana Albertina. New series, Vol. 9, 1977, pp. 1–13, here p. 2.
  9. Gnomon . 1962, Volume 34, p. 528.
  10. ^ In memoriam Hans Diller. In: Christiana Albertina. New series, Vol. 9, 1977, pp. 1–13, here p. 10.