Heinrich Bischoff (classical philologist)

Heinrich Bischoff (born August 9, 1906 in Munich , † August 7, 1941 in Bobriza, Soviet Union ) was a German classical philologist .

Heinrich Bischoff, the son of the administrative officer Alfred Bischoff and his wife Rosa (née Bedel), attended primary school in Munich and, since 1917, the high school in Pasing . After graduating on March 25, 1926, he studied classical philology, German studies , ancient and modern history , philosophy and archeology at the University of Munich from the summer semester 1926 to the winter semester 1928/1929 . In the summer semester of 1929 he moved to the University of Marburg , where he concentrated on classical philology. His academic teachers in Marburg were Ernst Lommatzsch , Paul Jacobsthal and Paul Friedländer . In December 1931 Bischoff was in Marburg with a thesis on The Warner in Herodotus doctorate . His doctoral thesis was reviewed by the Herodotus specialist Felix Jacoby and supervised by the Marburg philologist Paul Friedländer.

After receiving his doctorate, Bischoff worked as a research assistant at the University of Halle-Wittenberg , where he followed his doctoral supervisor Friedländer in 1932. Here he completed his habilitation in 1936. His habilitation thesis dealt with the gnomes of Pindar and was published two years later by the Triltsch publishing house in Würzburg . During this time Bischoff also wrote several smaller articles, including contributions to the Realencyclopadie of classical antiquity .

When the Second World War broke out , Bischoff was drafted as a soldier and deployed on the Eastern Front. It fell near Kiev at the beginning of the attack on the Soviet Union on August 7, 1941 .

literature

• Herbert Koch : Heinrich Bischoff † . In: Gnomon , Volume 17 (1941), p. 528.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Bischoff in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Review by Werner Sieveking, in: Gnomon 10 (1934), pp. 628–636.