Justus Hermann Lipsius

Justus Hermann Lipsius (born May 9, 1834 in Leipzig ; † September 5, 1920 ibid) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Lipsius was born in 1834 as the son of Karl Heinrich Adelbert Lipsius (1805–1861), who later became the rector of the Thomas School . His father nicknamed him Justus . He first attended the Thomas School and after graduating from high school, studied philology and theology at the University of Leipzig . In 1856 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. He became vicar at the Nikolaischule in Leipzig. In 1857 he became an adjunct at the Thomas School. In 1857 he became a teacher at the Royal Saxon High School St. Afra in Meissen, in 1860 a senior teacher and later professor at the Princely and State School in Grimma . In 1863 he became vice principal and from 1866 to 1877 he was director of the Nikolaischule Leipzig. In 1869 he became associate professor and in 1877 full professor of classical philology at the University of Leipzig. In 1886/87 he was dean of the Philosophical Faculty. In 1891/92 he was rector of the university. In 1914 he retired . He received honorary by the Universities of Leipzig and Athens to Dr. iur. awarded. From 1885 Lipsius was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences (deputy secretary of the philosophical-historical class from 1899 to 1914) and of the Princely Jablonowskische Gesellschaft . He was Commander First Class of the Saxon Order of Civil Merit and the Russian Order of Saint Stanislaus .

Works

• De Sophoclis emendandi praesidiis . Leipzig 1860
• Quaestionum Lysiacarum specimen . Leipzig 1864 (school program)
• Quaestiones logographicae . Leipzig 1886
• The importance of Greek law . Leipzig 1893
• Attic law and legal process. 3 volumes, Leipzig 1905–1915. Reprints Hildesheim 1966, Darmstadt 1966
• Attic law and legal process. First volume. OR Reisland, Leipzig 1905 ( online ).
• The historian of Oxyrhynchos . Leipzig 1915
• Words of memory to Bruno Keil . Leipzig 1916

Editing

• Georg Friedrich Schömann : Greek antiquities. Volume 1: The State . 4th edition, Leipzig 1897
• Georg Friedrich Schömann: Greek antiquities. Volume 2: The international situation and the religious system . 4th edition, Leipzig 1902

literature

• Literature by and about Justus Hermann Lipsius in the catalog of the Berlin State Library
• Johannes Poeschel: The College of the Princely and State School Grimma from 1849 to 1900 . Grimma 1901, pp. 40-42
• Ulrich Schindel :  Lipsius, Justus Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 675 f. ( Digitized version ).
• DBA I, Fiche 771, 98-100.
• DBA II, Fiche 820, 6-52.

Web links

• Literature by and about Justus Hermann Lipsius in the catalog of the German National Library
• Overview of the lectures of Justus Hermann Lipsius at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1869 to summer semester 1914)
• Justus Hermann Lipsius in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Richard Sachse, Karl Ramshorn, Reinhart Herz: The teachers of the Thomasschule in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912. BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1912, p. 24.