Hans Rupé (translator)
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.
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SURNAME | Rupé, Hans |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian and translator of ancient Greek literature |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1886 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1947 |
Place of death | Munich |