Hellfried Dahlmann

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Hellfried Dahlmann (born July 8, 1905 in Ruhland ; † July 7, 1988 in Cologne ) was a German classical philologist who worked as a professor in Marburg (1936–1953) and Cologne (1953–1971). As an honored Varro researcher and methodologist, he is one of the leading Latinists of the 20th century.

Life

Hellfried Dahlmann came from a Silesian pastor's family. He began his studies in Erlangen in 1924 and continued it in Breslau . When he wanted to leave his closer home after two semesters, Wilhelm Kroll advised him to move to Leipzig . Here Dahlmann completed his studies. He listened to Erich Bethe and Alfred Körte , but especially he joined Richard Heinze . Influenced by him, he dealt with the approaches of the Stoics and Epicureans to the development of language, on which he wrote his doctoral dissertation. Heinze's dictum: "If you are not finished with this work within a year, I am no longer interested in you" became the determining factor in his way of working, in which he avoided any hesitation. He received his doctorate in 1928 with the dissertation De philosophorum Graecorum sententiis ad loquellae originem pertinentibus capita duo .

After the death of his doctoral supervisor in 1929, Dahlmann went to Kiel, where he completed his habilitation with Felix Jacoby in 1930 . On November 4, 1930, he gave his inaugural lecture entitled The Roman Scholar .

His habilitation thesis dealt with the language theory of the Roman polymath Varro , whose Hellenistic sources and idiosyncrasies he examined. This was the beginning of his lifelong preoccupation with the Varros typefaces, which earned him great prestige. In 1932 he became an assistant in Cologne at Günther Jachmann , 1935 senior assistant in Berlin with Werner Jaeger . Although he only stayed here for a year, Dahlmann met many well-known scholars in Berlin and maintained his friendship with Jaeger even after his emigration to the USA. In 1936 Dahlmann accepted a position at the University of Marburg , where he was an associate professor as the successor to Ernst Lommatzsch . In 1941 he was promoted to full professor. From 1942 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier .

Dahlmann's scientific reputation brought him in 1950 the election as a full member of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature , where he worked with presence and many publications until his death. The last station of his life was Cologne, where he was appointed to the chair of classical philology in 1953 as successor to Günther Jachmann. Here he taught and researched until after his retirement in 1971.

Services

Like his teacher Heinze, Dahlmann was a Latinist . He was one of the most important Varro researchers of the 20th century. After his habilitation thesis ( Varro and the Hellenistic Language Theory , Berlin 1932), he wrote an article on Varro over 100 columns long for the Realencyclopadie (Pauly-Wissowa-Kroll) in 1935 , in which the broad, only fragmentary work of the scholar was examined in detail and the Research discourse is critically examined. He also provided a commentary on the eighth book of Varro's linguistic theory ( Hermes-Einzelschriften 7, Berlin 1940) and treatises on the writings De poematis (Mainz 1953) and De poetis (Mainz 1962), in which he examined the disposition scheme of poetological treatises by way of example. Dahlmann endeavored not only to collect fragments, but to reconstruct the entire work from them. He also instructed his students in this method.

Together with Heinze, Dahlmann has the merit of paving the way for a new Latin studies. He aimed to reveal the own character and structure of Roman literary works and so overcame the approach of the 19th century. In this sense, Dahlmann not only approached Varro, but also Horace , Virgil and Lucretius . In his later years he dealt with the so-called poetae minores of the classical and post-classical period. From the only 14 fragments of the Res Romanae by Cornelius Severus , he reconstructed the poet's style, metrics and epic storytelling.

Fonts (selection)

  • De philosophorum Graecorum sententiis ad loquellae originem pertinentibus capita duo . Weida 1928 (dissertation, University of Leipzig)
  • Varro and the Hellenistic Theory of Language . Berlin 1932 (habilitation thesis, University of Kiel 1930). Reprint Berlin / Zurich 1964
    • Italian translation by Gualtiero Calboli: Varrone e la teoria ellenistica della lingua . Napoli 1997, 88-8096-540-9
  • Varro. De lingua Latina, book 8 . Explained by Hellfried Dahlmann. Berlin 1940. Reprint 1966 (= Hermes . Individual writings 7). 3rd, unchanged edition Hildesheim 2003, ISBN 978-3-615-15850-2
  • L. Annaeus Seneca. About the brevity of life . Munich 1949 (= The Word of Antiquity 1)
  • M. Tullius Cicero. Letters from the time of Caesar's reign . Heidelberg 1949
  • To the tradition about the "ancient Roman table songs". Verlag der Wissenschaft und der Literatur in Mainz (commissioned by Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden), Mainz 1950 (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Humanities and social science class. Born 1950, volume 17).
  • Varro's writing “de poematis” and the Hellenistic-Roman poetics. Verlag der Wissenschaft und der Literatur in Mainz (commissioned by Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden) Mainz 1953 (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Humanities and social science class. Born 1953, Volume 3).
  • The bee state in Virgil's Georgica. Mainz 1955 (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Humanities and social science class. Born 1954, Volume 10). Verlag der Wissenschaft und der Literatur in Mainz (commissioned by Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden).
  • with Reinhard Heisterhagen: Varronic Studies. Part 1: To the Logistorici . Mainz 1957 (= treatises of the humanities and social science class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Born 1957, No. 4).
  • with Wolfgang Speyer : Varronic Studies. Part 2 . Mainz 1960 (= treatises of the humanities and social science class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Born 1959, No. 11).
  • Studies on Varro "De poetis". Mainz 1963 (= treatises of the humanities and social sciences class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Born in 1962, No. 10).
  • On the Ars grammatica of Marius Victorinus . Mainz 1970
  • Small fonts . Hildesheim / New York 1970 (= Collectanea 19)
  • Comments on Seneca, De vita beata . Mainz 1972
  • Cornelius Severus . Mainz 1975, ISBN 978-3-515-02090-9
  • About Helvius Cinna . Mainz 1977, ISBN 978-3-515-02709-0
  • A poem by Apuleius? (Gellius 19:11) . Mainz 1979, ISBN 978-3-515-03170-7
  • About Aemilius Macer . Mainz 1981, ISBN 978-3-515-03554-5
  • On fragments of Roman poets . 3 parts, Mainz 1983–1987

literature

  • Inge Auerbach: Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis. Second volume: 1910 to 1971 . Marburg 1979, p. 484
  • Clemens Zintzen : Obituary for Hellfried Dahlmann , in: Yearbook of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , Stuttgart 1988, pp. 90–94.
  • Clemens Zintzen: Hellfried Dahlmann † , in: Gnomon , Vol. 64 (1992), pp. 281-283.
  • Bärbel and Johannes Kramer: Memories of Hellfried Dahlmann . In: Włodzimierz Appel (ed.): “Magistri et discipuli”. Chapter on the history of classical studies in the 20th century . Tórun 2002 ( Xenia Toruniensia VII)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zintzen (1992) 218.
  2. ↑ Published in: Das humanistische Gymnasium . Volume 42 (1931), pp. 185-192.
personal data
SURNAME Dahlmann, Hellfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dahlmann, Hans-Hellfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruhland
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1988
Place of death Cologne