Josef Liegle

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Josef Liegle (born June 12, 1893 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ; † missing since April 25, 1945 near Halbe and Baruth / Mark ) was a German classical philologist and above all a numismatist .

Family, life and work

Liegle came from an old Gmünder family on both his father's and mother's side. His son Ludwig Liegle , born in 1941, became a professor of general and comparative education.

Josef Liegle received his doctorate from Heidelberg University in 1922 . From 1928 he was employed as a scientific assistant at the Münzkabinett Berlin , from 1929 he was custodian of ancient coins, and from 1936 he was also a lecturer for ancient numismatics at the Berlin University . At the beginning of the 1920s he belonged to the George Circle , which also influenced his later work, especially in a linguistic way. He had translated much of Virgil's writings into German, including all of the pastoral poems and most of the Aeneid . It was not until 2007 that the translations were published with other Liegles' writings. In addition, he conducted research on the Greco-Roman intellectual and religious history . His most important work is the monumental book Der Zeus des Phidias , published in 1952 and dedicated to Erich Heckel .

Josef Liegle has been missing in the turmoil of the Second World War since April 25, 1945 .

Publications (selection)

  • Investigations into the platonic forms of life. Dissertation Heidelberg 1922
  • Finds of Roman coins near Steinort am Mauersee. Verlag der Berliner Münzblätter, Berlin 1930 ( Berliner Münzblätter 1930, No. 334–335)
  • Euainetos. A series of works based on originals from the State Coin Cabinet in Berlin , de Gruyter, Berlin 1941 ( Winckelmann program of the Archaeological Society of Berlin , vol. 101)
  • The Zeus des Phidias , Weidmann, Berlin 1952
  • Litterae Augustae. Augustan poems and texts of the Princeps in German translation , ed. by Arnd Kerkhecker , Katharina Roettig, Martha Rohde-Liegle and Ernst August Schmidt, Schwabe, Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-7965-2241-3 [1] .

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