Karl Ludwig Roth (philologist, 1811)

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Karl Ludwig Roth (also Carl Ludwig Roth ; born February 16, 1811 in Gersbach , † July 16, 1860 in Basel ) was a Swiss classical philologist .

Life

Roth was a son of the pastor Christoph Roth. He first attended the Lörrach pedagogy , then the Basel pedagogy . He then began studying theology at the University of Basel in 1828 and went to Halle University for another year until 1831 . After his ordination in 1831 he became vicar in Heidelberg . In addition to his work as vicar, he began studying classical philology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . There, in 1834, with the dissertation L. Cornelii Sisennae historici Romani vita, the doctorate to Dr. phil.

Roth returned to Basel in 1834 and became a teacher at Johannes Kettiger's private school . In 1842 he came to teach German and Latin at the Humanist Gymnasium in Basel . From 1852 he also worked as a lecturer and from 1855 as an associate professor at Basel University. Roth turned down appointments to the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (1854) and the University of Heidelberg.

Works (selection)

  • L. Cornelii Sisennae historici Romani vitam composuit , Basel 1834.
  • Aemilii Probi de excellentibus ducibus et Cornelii Nepotis ... , Basel 1841.
  • About the life of M. Terentius Varro Basel 1857. Google digitized
  • The Roman inscriptions of the Canton of Basel , Basel 1843 Google digitized version

In addition, he published, as Ueli Dill called it, epoch-making editions of the works of Cornelius Nepos (1841) and Suetonius (1865) and with Franz Dorotheus Gerlach by Nonius Marcellus (1842).

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SURNAME Roth, Karl Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roth, Carl Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Gersbach
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1860
Place of death Basel