Heinrich Schenkl

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Heinrich Schenkl (born January 29, 1859 in Innsbruck , † December 3, 1919 in Vienna ) was an Austrian classical philologist .

Life

Heinrich Schenkl, son of the classical philologist Karl Schenkl , studied classical philology, archeology , epigraphy , Sanskrit , philosophy and education at the University of Vienna from 1876 to 1880 . In 1881 he received his doctorate and after his habilitation in 1882 was a teacher at several Viennese high schools. 1887–1888 he cataloged manuscripts in England on behalf of the Academic Commission for the publication of the Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorum , which was directed by his father. In 1892 he was appointed associate professor and in 1896 full professor at the University of Graz . From 1908, like his father before him, he was a member of the grammar school reform commission. In 1917 he moved to the University of Vienna, where he died in 1919.

Schenkl made a special contribution to the critical edition of Greek and Latin authors from the imperial period .

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