Hans Theodor Plüss

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Hans Theodor Plüss (born May 29, 1845 in Beuggen, a district of Rheinfelden , † November 11, 1919 in Basel ) was a German classical philologist .

Group picture (photograph around 1889), teacher at the Upper High School in Basel, from left to right, top: Achilles Burckhardt, Fritz Tschopp, Albert Burckhardt , Rudolf Stähelin, Rudolf Kögel, Theophil Burckhardt-Biedermann , Emanuel Probst, Hans Theodor Plüss; below: Johann Jakob Oeri, Carl Grob, Jakob Mähly , Rector Fritz Burckhardt, Gustav Soldan, Felix Bertholet, Albert Riggenbach

Life

Theodor Plüss was the son of the primary school teacher Johannes Plüss. After studying Latin , Ancient Greek and German at the University of Basel , he received his doctorate in Bonn in 1865 . In the following years he taught at high schools in Cologne , Posen and Plön , at the Schulpforta near Naumburg (1873–1881) and until 1907 at the humanistic high school in Basel. The Swiss classical philologist Peter von der Mühll is one of his best-known students .

In addition to his work as a high school teacher, Plüss published several scientific papers, including his best-known work Virgil and the Epic Art from 1884, a topic that Richard Heinze later took up in an epoch-making work. In 1879 he turned down the call to the University of Basel, where Friedrich Nietzsche's chair became vacant due to his illness. Plüss spent the last years of his life in Basel. According to the historian and philologist Ueli Dill, his personality, which was shaped by his school service in Prussia , exerted a formative influence on his contemporaries.

Publications (selection)

  • De Cinciis rerum Romanorum scriptoribus. Dissertation. Bonn 1865.
  • The development of the centuria constitution in the last two centuries of the Roman Republic , Leipzig 1870 ( archive.org ).
  • The charm of narrative poetry and Virgil's envy . Basel 1882.
  • Horace Studies: Old and New Essays on Horace Poetry . Leipzig 1882 ( archive.org ).
  • Virgil and the epic art . Leipzig 1884 (2nd edition 1980; archive.org ).
  • Sophocles' Electra . Leipzig 1891.
  • Aeschylos' Agamemnon , Leipzig 1895 ( archive.org ).
  • Superstition and Religion in Sophocles' Electra . Basel 1900.
  • The iambic book of Horace: In the light of our own and our times . Leipzig 1904 ( archive.org ).

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SURNAME Plüss, Hans Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Beuggen, Rheinfelden
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1919
Place of death Basel