Hartmut Pea

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Hartmut Erbse (born November 23, 1915 in Rudolstadt ; † July 7, 2004 in Trossingen ) was a German classical philologist who worked as a professor at the Universities of Hamburg (1954–1965), Tübingen (1965–1968) and Bonn (1968–1984 ) worked.

Life

The son of a doctor from Thuringia studied classical philology in Hamburg, where he received his doctorate in 1941 on fragments of Greek theosophies . In 1948 he completed his habilitation as a Graecist with a study of the attic lexicons. In the same year he received his first lectureship in Hamburg. There he was appointed adjunct professor in 1954 and finally appointed full professor six years later. In 1965 he followed a call to Tübingen to the Chair of Greek Philology and in 1968 another call to the University of Bonn, where he researched and taught until shortly before his death ( retired 1984). In 2003 he moved to Trossingen to live with his son.

His research was devoted to the textual criticism and writing of Greek fragments and scholias , the understanding of Homer , Herodotus and Thucydides . Erbse acted as co-editor of the renowned magazines Glotta and Hermes and in 1965 was one of the editors of the Lexikon der Alten Welt (LAW) alongside Carl Andresen , Olof Gigon , Karl Schefold , Karl Friedrich Stroheker and Ernst Zinn . Together with Kurt Latte he edited the Lexica Graeca Minora .

Hartmut Erbse was a corresponding member of the British Academy and the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen .

Works (selection)

  • 1950 Investigations into the attic lexica , Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.
  • 1960 Contributions to the tradition of the Iliasscholien , Munich: Beck.
  • 1965 Lexica Graeca minora , Hildesheim: Olms.
  • 1969–1983 Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem , Berlin: de Gruyter.
  • 1972 Contributions to the understanding of the Odyssey , Berlin: de Gruyter.
  • 1979 Selected writings on classical philology , Berlin-New York: de Gruyter.
  • 1980 Festschrift for Hartmut Erbse on his 65th birthday , ed. by Joachim Latacz , Würzburg: Schöningh.
  • 1984 Studies on the Prologue of the Euripidean Tragedy , Berlin: de Gruyter.
  • 1986 Investigations into the function of the gods in the Homeric epic , Berlin: de Gruyter.
  • 1989 Thucydides interpretations , Berlin: de Gruyter.
  • 1991 Fiction and Truth in the Works of Herodotus , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht .
  • 1992 Studies to Understand Herodotus , Berlin: de Gruyter.
  • 1995 Theosophorum Graecorum Fragmenta , Stuttgart: Teubner.
  • 2003 Studies in Greek Poetry , Wiesbaden: Steiner.

literature

  • Adolf Köhnken : Hartmut Erbse †. In: Gnomon . Volume 77, 2005, pp. 380-383.
  • In memoriam Hartmut Erbse (23.11.1915-07.07.2004). Speeches held at the academic commemoration on April 22, 2005 in the ballroom of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (= Alma mater. Volume 103). Bouvier, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-416-03242-1 .
  • Ralph Lather: Pea, Hartmut. 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. 368 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Pea, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Rudolstadt , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 2004
Place of death Trossingen