Konrad Glaser (classical philologist)

Konrad Glaser (born June 28, 1903 in Linz , † December 25, 1943 in Vienna ) was an Austrian classical philologist .

From 1922 Konrad Glaser studied Classical Philology at the University of Vienna . He received his doctorate in 1926 and passed the secondary school exams for Latin and Greek in 1927. After completing the probationary year, he was employed at the grammar school in Vienna VI in 1928 and appointed grammar school professor. In 1936 he moved to Feldkirch, in 1937 to Vienna VIII. After his habilitation at the University of Vienna (1940), he held lectures at the university, including on Plato's Nordic beliefs , in addition to school lessons . In 1942 he left school and was appointed associate professor of classical philology at the University of Vienna. He died the following year at the age of 40.

As a researcher, Glaser was particularly concerned with the cultural and state philosophy of antiquity. He published several essays and articles in the Realencyclopadie der classical antiquity .

Fonts (selection)

• Polybius as a political thinker . Vienna 1940
• State-philosophical and cultural-political problems in Plato's works . Baden 1941 (habilitation thesis). Partial prints under the title:
  • The evaluation of the forms of government in antiquity . In: Vienna Studies . Volume 57 (1939), pp. 38-57
  • Plato's position on the struggle between philosophy and tragic poetry . In: Vienna Studies . Volume 58 (1940), pp. 30-73

literature

• Glaser, Konrad. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 4.

Web links

Wikisource: Konrad Glaser  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Konrad Glaser in the catalog of the German National Library