Hans Rupé (translator)

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Hans Rupé (born April 5, 1886 in Warsaw , † April 7, 1947 in Munich ) was a German art historian and translator of ancient Greek literature .

After attending the Vitzthum-Gymnasium in Dresden, Hans Rupé studied art history in Geneva , Munich , Berlin and Freiburg , where he received his doctorate in 1912 with a dissertation on Hans Burgkmair the Elder . From 1922 he worked as a curator at the Bavarian National Museum in Munich, most recently in the rank of chief curator . In particular, he was responsible for the ceramics department.

However, he gained greater fame through his translations of ancient literature from ancient Greek, from Sappho , Euripides Alcestis and Homer's Iliad .

He is buried in the forest cemetery in Munich .

Publications (selection)

  • Contributions to the work of Hans Burgkmair the Elder . Dissertation. Freiburg 1912.
  • The Paehler Altar in the Bavarian National Museum . Publishing house for practical art studies FX Weizinger & Co., Munich 1922.
  • Thomas Murner's guild. Facsimile edition of the original edition printed in Augsburg in 1513 and provided with woodcuts by Burgkmair. with an afterword by Hans Rupe. Filser, Augsburg 1926.
  • Catalog of South German and Central German faiences from the Paul Heiland legacy . Bavarian National Museum, Munich 1934.
  • Divertimenti. Speeches and essays . Rinn, Munich 1948.
Translations
  • Homer's Iliad. (= Temple classic ). Based on the translation by Johann Heinrich Voss, translated into German by Hans Rupé. 2 volumes. Tempel-Verlag, Leipzig 1922/29.
  • Euripides: Alcestis . Dr. B. Filser, Augsburg 1925.
  • Sappho: Carmina . Holle & Co., Berlin 1936.
  • Sappho. Greek and German. (= Tusculum library ). Heimeran, Munich 1944. (2nd edition 1945)
  • Homer: Iliad ( Tusculum Library ). 2 volumes. Heimeran, Munich 1948.

literature

  • Ludwig Curtius : Hans Rupé (5.4.1886–7.4.1947). In: Hans Rupé: Divertimenti. Speeches and essays . Rinn, Munich 1948, p. 116.
  • Albert Rehm : Hans Rupé in memory. In: Antiquity and the Occident. 3, 1948, pp. 255-257.
  • The Bavarian National Museum 1855–2005. 150 years of collecting, researching, exhibiting . Hirmer, Munich 2006, pp. 350–351.
  • Werner Ebnet: You lived in Munich. Biographies from eight centuries . Allitera Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86906-744-5 , p. 506.