Hans Färber (philologist)

Hans Färber (born June 2, 1908 ; † 1986 ) was a German high school teacher ( classical philologist ) and translator of Latin texts.

Dyer studied classical philology at the University of Munich and in 1936 at Rudolf Pfeiffer with a thesis on the poetry in art theory antiquity doctorate . He was a teacher at the Wittelsbacher Gymnasium in Munich, where he was director from 1954 until his retirement in 1971.

Editions of Musaios , Cornelius Nepos and Horace in the Tusculum Collection as well as an outline of the Greek dialect grammar and metrics come from him.

Fonts

• The lyric in the art theory of the ancient world . Filser, Munich 1936.
• Solon's figure and work: according to Aristotle's constitution of the Athenians . Buchner, Bamberg 1941.
• Outline of Homeric grammar for high schools . Kösel, Munich 1953.
• with Hans Lindemann: Greek grammar , part II: sentence theory (by Hans Lindemann), dialect grammar and metrics (by Hans Färber), Bayerischer Schulbuch-Verlag, Munich 1957, reprint Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2003, reprint of the 3rd edition 2010.
• Latin stylistics . Oldenbourg, Munich 1959.
• (Ed.): Modern teaching in high school. Festschrift of the Wittelsbacher Gymnasium in Munich. Bayerischer Schulbuch-Verlag, Munich 1959.

Translations

• Hero and Leander: Musaios and the other ancient evidence ( Tusculum collection ). Heimeran, Munich 1961.
• Cornelius Nepos: Short Biographies and Fragments . Latin and German ( Tusculum Collection ). Heimeran, Munich 1952.
• Horace, Complete Works , Latin and German, 2 parts in one volume, Part I: after Kayser, Nordenflycht and Burger edited by Hans Färber, Part II: with Wilhelm Schöne ( Tusculum Collection ). Heimeran, Munich 1957

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to register. 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. 1391. The DNB's statement that he died in 1982 is incorrect because he celebrated his 75th birthday on June 2, 1983, see. Gnomon 55, 1983, p. 192.