Karl Arno Pfeiff

Karl Arno Pfeiff (* 1909 in Ober Leschen near Sprottau (Silesia) ; † 1997 ) was a German classical archaeologist and classical philologist .

Pfeiff studied Classical Archeology and Classical Philology and received his doctorate in 1939 at the University of Frankfurt under Ernst Langlotz with a dissertation The Transformation of the Apollo Image in Greek Vessel Painting up to the year 460 . In 1940/1941 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute , which he was unable to take due to the war. From 1942 to 1943 he was an assistant at the Athens Department of the German Archaeological Institute . After the war he was a teacher at the Beethoven High School in Bonn .

In addition to a book on the iconography of Apollo , he stood out primarily with translations of works by Aeschylus , Sophocles , Pindars and the Homeric Hymns .

Publications

• Apollo. The transformation of his image in Greek art. Frankfurt, Klostermann 1943
• Prometheus. Aeschylus. Transmission and Afterword. Paderborn, Schöningh 1964
• Sophocles. King Oedipus, Greek and German. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht 1969
• Pindar. Transfer, introduction and explanations. Tübingen, Stauffenburg-Verlag 1997. ISBN 3-86057-182-6
• Homeric hymns. Transmission, introduction and explanations; ed. by Gerd von der Gönna and Erika Simon , Tübingen, Stauffenburg-Verlag 2002. 2nd edition 2010. ISBN 3-86057-187-7 . ISBN 978-3-86057-187-3

literature

• Ulf Jantzen : One Hundred Years of Athens Institute, 1874-1974 , Mainz, von Zabern 1986. ISBN 3-8053-0844-2 , p. 54. 109