Johann Heinrich Krause

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Johann Heinrich Krause (born January 1, 1800 in Bürgel , † February 13, 1882 in Dresden ) was a German philologist .

Life

Johann Heinrich Krause was born on January 1st, 1800 in Bürgel and trained at the grammar school in Weimar . He then moved to the University of Jena to study classical philology and moved to the University of Halle . After his promotion to Doctor of Philology, he was in Jena private scholar . From 1831 he worked as an assistant teacher for the Latina of the Francke Foundations . But he did not pause for long in this position, but instead devoted himself to the sport of ancient Greece .

He resumed his teaching activities in the 1840s and was finally habilitated in 1843 at the University of Halle for Philology and Archeology . From then on he worked as a private lecturer and read in particular the history of gymnastics and agonistics as well as Plato and disputes in Latin. In 1845 he was appointed curator of the university library . He also dealt with Greek mythology , ancient cultural history and the conquest of Byzantium . 1870 was Krause, a professor and went to the 1877 retirement , which he spent in Dresden. He died there on February 13, 1882.

Works

  • Theagenes or Scientific Representation of Gymnastics, Agnostics and the Hellenic Festival (1835, reprinted 1975)
  • Olympia, or representation of the great Olympic Games and related festivities (1838, reprinted 1972)
  • De civitatibus neocoris quae in numis maxime Lapid iburque inscriptis commemorantur (habilitation thesis, 1843)
  • The Byzantines of the Middle Ages in their state, court and private life, especially from the end of the tenth to the end of the fourteenth century (1869; reprint 1974)

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