Kurt Witte

This article deals with the philologist Kurt Witte; on the painter see Curt Witte .

Kurt Witte (born November 21, 1885 in Posen , † June 18, 1950 in Erlangen ) was a German classical philologist .

After attending school in Poznan and studying in Breslau and Berlin, the son of an elementary school teacher received his doctorate in 1908 in Breslau. In 1910, Witte completed his habilitation at the University of Münster , where at the end of 1916 he became an unofficial professor. In the following year he went to the University of Greifswald as a permanent adjunct professor . In 1920 Witte was appointed to a chair at the University of Erlangen , which he held until his death.

Witte's research focused on Greek ( Homer ) and Roman poetry, especially the Augustan period ( Virgil , Horace ). From 1911 to 1923, on behalf of Wilhelm Kroll, he was co-editor of the second series (R-Z) of the Realencyclopadie of Classical Classical Studies , for which he also wrote articles himself. Under his aegis (partly because of the difficulties of the First World War ) only four half-volumes of the series were published. After his departure, Karl Mittelhaus was responsible for editing the second row .

Since 1911 Witte was married to a daughter of the ancient historian Otto Seeck .

Fonts

• Singular and plural. Research on the form and history of Greek poetry. Teubner, Leipzig 1907.
• Quaestiones tragicae. Breslau 1908 (dissertation)
• The Bucolic Virgil. The genesis of a Roman literary genre. Metzler, Stuttgart 1922.
• The History of Roman Poetry in the Age of Augustus. 4 volumes. Erlangen 1924-1932.
• Plato. 1. Politeia I, II. Explained by Kurt Witte. Junge, Erlangen 1949.
• About the form of representation in Livius' historical work. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1969. (First in: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie. 1910.)
• About the Homeric language. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1972. (Reprint of older works.)

literature

• Who is it 8th edition. Degener, Leipzig 1922, p. 1712.
• Research and Progress. News sheet for German science and technology. 26th year, 1950, p. 240.
• Kurt Witte . In: Gerhard Oestreich (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Founded by Joseph Kürschner . 7th edition. De Gruyter, Berlin 1950, OCLC 257209326 , p. 2294 .
• Egert Pöhlmann : From the seminar for classical philology to the institute for ancient languages. In: 250 years of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Erlangen 1993, pp. 513-542 (on Witte especially pp. 524-525).
• Wolfgang Srb: Horace in Erlangen. In: Severin Koster (editor): Horace studies. Erlangen 1994, pp. 103–114 (on Witte especially pp. 105–109)
• Lexicon Greifswald university lecturers 1775 to 2006. Volume 3. 1907 to 1932. Bock, Bad Honnef 2004, ISBN 3-87066-931-4 , pp. 244–245.

Web links

• Literature by and about Kurt Witte in the catalog of the German National Library