Karl Friedrich Ameis

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Karl Friedrich Ameis (born August 26, 1811 in Bautzen , † May 29, 1870 in Mühlhausen ) was a German classical philologist . He is particularly known as the author of a text commentary on Homer , which is still used today and is named after him and the later editor Ameis-Hentze .

Life

Ameis attended the Bautzen high school, whose rector Karl Gottfried Siebelis inspired him to study philology. He then studied classical philology in Leipzig with Gottfried Hermann , who influenced him the most. Ameis completed his studies in Halle with Gottfried Bernhardy . After two probationary years at the pedagogy in Magdeburg (1835-1837), he followed a call to the high school in Mühlhausen, where he stayed until his death. In 1844 he was appointed senior teacher.

In Mühlhausen, Ameis dealt with text-critical examinations in addition to teaching. In 1840 he published the school program Comments on Theocrit's Idyllen , in 1846 his edition of the poems of Theocrit, Bion Borysthenes and Moschos appeared in the series Poetae bucolici et didactici by the Paris publisher Firmin Didot. After his death, he dedicated the work Gottfried Hermanns Pedagogical Influence (Jena 1850) to his academic teacher Gottfried Hermann . Then he concentrated his work on the texts of Homer. With Homer's Odyssey stated for school use his first text comment he later to post a comment for which appeared in 1856 Ilias extended. Up until his death, the comments were reissued three times in a revised version. Ameis had called in the philologist Karl Hentze as early as 1865 .

After Ameis' death, Hentze alone carried out the revision of the commentary; after his death in 1908 Paul Cauer continued the work from 1910 to 1913. The Ameis-Hentze-Cauer is a standard work to this day and is used by schoolchildren, students, teachers and researchers as an introduction to the Homeric epics. Only recently have the philologists Anton Bierl and Joachim Latacz tackled the task of composing a new overall commentary on the Iliad. As part of this project, in which the historian Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg , the archaeologist Rolf Stucky , the philologist Fritz Graf and the linguist Rudolf Wachter also work, ten volumes have been published in 19 deliveries so far (as of October 2017).

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SURNAME Ameis, Karl Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ameis, Carl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Bautzen
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1870
Place of death Mulhouse