Hildebrecht Hommel

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Hildebrecht Hommel (born May 19, 1899 in Munich , † January 16, 1996 in Ebenhausen ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Hildebrecht Hommel, the son of the orientalist Fritz Hommel (1854–1936), studied classical philology at the universities of Berlin (with Hermann Diels , Eduard Norden and Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff ) and Munich , after having completed high school (1917) and military service from 1918 he was awarded a Dr. phil. received his doctorate . During his studies he was in 1919 in Munich Member of Schwarzenburg Bund - connection Herminonia . From 1927 to 1937 he was the state librarian at the University Library of Würzburg . In 1932 he qualified as a professor for classical philology at the University of Würzburg .

After substituting for a professorship at the University of Gießen in 1936/37, he accepted a professorship from Otto Regenbogen in Heidelberg, who had been dismissed in 1935 and whom Hommel had already represented in 1935/36. In Heidelberg, Hommel was initially an associate professor, from October 8, 1941, a full professor of classical philology.

He was a member of various National Socialist organizations ( SA -Schführer since 1936, NSDAP since 1937, NSDDB since 1939) and was dismissed by the American occupation forces in 1945. From 1948 to 1955 he taught as a visiting professor at the Church University of Berlin .

From 1955 to 1964 Hommel was again Professor of Classical Philology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen as the successor to Otto Weinreich . With his colleague Ernst Zinn he founded the Spudasmata series .

For his research in the field of Roman religion, Hommel received an honorary doctorate from the Church University of Berlin .

His son was the classical archaeologist Peter Hommel .

Fonts (selection)

  • Citizenship education and political propaedeutics , Hueber, Munich 1925.
  • Heliaia. Investigations on the constitution and procedural rules of the Athenian People's Court, in particular on the final part of the Athenaion politeia of Aristoteles , Dieterich, Leipzig 1927 (Philologus. Supplement-Volume 19,2).
  • Metoikoi. Terminology, history and system of the Athenian sibling law , Würzburg 1931.
  • Die Bildkunst des Tacitus , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1936 (Würzburg Studies on Classical Studies, Volume 9.1).
  • Horace . Man and the work , Kerle, Heidelberg 1950.
  • Creator and Sustainer. Studies on the problem of Christianity and antiquity , Lettner-Verlag, Berlin 1956.
  • (as ed.): Ways to Aeschylus , two volumes, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1974 (Ways of Research, Volumes 87 and 465), ISBN 3-534-03402-3 and ISBN 3-534-06846-7 .
  • Symbola. Small writings on the literary and cultural history of antiquity , two volumes, Olms, Hildesheim 1976/1988 (Collectanea, volume 5), ISBN 3-487-04734-9 and ISBN 3-487-07997-6 .
  • Sebasmata. Studies on ancient religious history and early Christianity , two volumes, Mohr, Tübingen 1983/1984 (Scientific studies on the New Testament, volume 31/32), ISBN 3-16-144722-0 and ISBN 3-16-144723-9 .
  • Goethe Studies, Winter, Heidelberg 1989 (Treatises of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class, born in 1989, Volume 1), ISBN 3-533-04067-4 .

literature

  • Jürgen Kroymann (Ed.): Eranion. Festschrift for Hildebrecht Hommel , Niemeyer, Tübingen 1961 (with bibliography).
  • Gottfried Mälzer (Ed.): Festgabe for Hildebrecht Hommel on her 80th birthday , Würzburg University Library 1984 (Small prints from the Würzburg University Library, Volume 2), ISBN 3-923959-02-8 .
  • Gottfried Kiefner (Ed.): Charistēria. Thanks to Prof. D. Dr. Hildebrecht Hommel on the occasion of his 85th birthday, offered by his 50-year-old doctoral students , Olms, Hildesheim 1988 (Spudasmata, Volume 40), ISBN 3-487-09017-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Goebel (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. 8th edition, Frankfurt am Main 1930, p. 86 No. 1343.