Hugo Blümner

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Hugo Johann Friedrich Daniel Wilhelm Ferdinand Blümner (born August 9, 1844 in Berlin , † January 1, 1919 in Zurich ) was a German classical archaeologist and classical philologist .

Hugo Blümner, 1914.

Life

Hugo Blümner grew up in Breslau, where he attended Friedrichs-Gymnasium. He studied in Breslau from 1862, in Berlin from 1864, and in the 1865 summer semester in Bonn with Otto Jahn . In 1866 he received his doctorate in Berlin with Eduard Gerhard and August Boeckh with a dissertation on Lukian . In 1870 he completed his habilitation at the University of Breslau for Classical Philology and Archeology, where he taught as a private lecturer. In 1875 he became an associate professor for classical archeology at the University of Königsberg. In 1877 Blümner went to the University of Zurich , where he was Professor of Archeology and Classical Philology until his death in 1919. In 1888/89 he was rector .

He devoted himself above all to the realities of classical antiquity , his technology and terminology of the trades and arts among Greeks and Romans is one of the standard works of ancient technology history. As a philologist, he edited a Pausanias edition together with Hermann Hitzig from 1896 to 1910 and wrote text-critical studies on Greek ( Plutarch , Lukian of Samosata ) and Latin ( Petronius , Apuleius ) authors. He also dealt with the metaphor in antiquity and the language of Bismarckian .

Hugo Blümner was a full member of the German Archaeological Institute since 1889 and a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 1916 . In 1894 he was one of the founders of the Society for the German Language in Zurich and is the father of the actor Rudolf Blümner .

Fonts

  • De locis Luciani ad artem spectantibus; particula great . Berlin 1866 (dissertation)
  • Archaeological Studies on Lucian . Maelzer, Breslau 1867 (based on the Latin dissertation from 1866)
  • The industrial activity of the peoples of classical antiquity . Hirzel, Leipzig 1869. (Price publications of the Princely Jablonowskische Gesellschaft zu Leipzig, No. 15) (digitized version)
  • De Vulcani in veteribus artium monumentis figura . Breslau 1870 (habilitation thesis)
  • Technology and terminology of trades and arts among Greeks and Romans . 4 volumes. Teubner, Leipzig 1875–1887 (1st volume in 2nd edition 1912). Reprint Olms, Hildesheim 2004, ISBN 3-487-02384-9 .
  • Life and manners of the Greeks. Dept. 1-3, Freytag and Tempsky, Leipzig and Prague 1887. ( The knowledge of the present , volumes 60, 62, 63) (digitized version)
  • Studies on the History of Metaphor in Greek , Volume 1. On parable and metaphor in Attic comedy . Teubner, Leipzig 1891. (No further volume published. Reprint: Scientia, Aalen 1974, ISBN 3-511-09005-9 .)
  • The figurative expression in the speeches of Prince Bismarck . Hirzel, Leipzig 1891.
  • To Swiss written German. A layman's glosses on Wustmann's work "Allerhand Sprachdummheiten" . Albert Müller, Zurich 1892.
  • The Roman private antiquities . CH Beck, Munich 1911 ( Handbook of Classical Studies IV, 2, 2)

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The title of the work, written in Latin, is: De locis Luciani ad artem spectantibus: particula prima . The cover sheet names as opponents (“Adversariorum Partes Suscipient”): “ Georgius Hille , Dr. Phil. Des .; Alfredus de Sallet , Dr. Phil .; Jacobus Oeri , Dr. Phil. "
personal data
SURNAME Blümner, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blümner, Hugo Johann Friedrich Daniel Wilhelm Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archaeologist and classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1919
Place of death Zurich