Leo Bloch

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Leo Bloch (born March 26, 1864 in Breslau ; died April 8, 1920 in Vienna ) was a German classical philologist , classical archaeologist and teacher.

Life

Leo Bloch studied from 1883 at the University of Leipzig philology, art history and archeology and in 1888 over an iconographic theme in Greek vase painting doctorate . From 1895 to 1906 he was a private lecturer in archeology and mythology at the University of Zurich . From the school year 1902/03 he was head of the girls' lyceum of Eugenie Schwarzwald in Vienna , Franziskanerplatz 5. In autumn 1911 he founded his own school under the name of the girls' lyceum in the 18th district, since 1916 under the name " Währinger girls' secondary school ".

He also worked as a translator for the Norwegian writer Alexander Lange Kielland (1849–1906) and the Danish cultural historian Troels Frederik Troels-Lund (1840–1921).

Fonts (selection)

  • The watching gods in the red-figure vase paintings of the picturesque style . Fock, Leipzig 1888 (= dissertation, digitized version ).
  • Greek wall decorations. Archaeological research on Attic reliefs . [sn], Munich 1895.
  • The cult and mysteries of Eleusis . Verl.-Anst. and Dr., Hamburg 1896
  • The nymphs . [sn], Leipzig 1898.
  • Roman antiquity (= Göschen Collection No. 45). Leipzig 1898
  • Alkestis Studies . Teubner, Leipzig 1901
  • The estate and social struggles in the Roman Republic , 1900.
  • The ancient political revolutions . In: Ignaz Ježower (ed.): The liberation of humanity. Ideas of freedom in the past and present. Bong, Berlin [a. a.] 1921

Translations

  • Troels Frederik Troels-Lund: Health and illness in the view of old times , Leipzig 1901.
  • Troels Frederik Troels-Lund: Himmelsbild und Weltanschauung im Wandel der Zeiten , Leipzig, 1899. Authorized translation reviewed by the author.
  • Alexander L. Kielland: Two short stories. True heart - Karen . Translated from Norwegian by Dr. Leo Bloch. With a portrait of Kielland and an introductory study by the translator. Berlin [1898].
  • Alexander L. Kielland: Workers , 1897.

literature

  • Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Vol. 6, 1932, pp. 477-478 ( digitized version ).
  • Ernst Gagliardi, Hans Nabholz, Jean Strohl: The University of Zurich 1833–1933 and its predecessors . Zurich 1938, p. 988 No. 149.
  • Bloch, Leo. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 3: Birk – Braun. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-22683-7 , pp. 168-170.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Renate Seebauer: Women who went to school . Lit, Vienna 2007, p. 74; Claudia Jamy: Jewish school founders with reference to Vienna around 1900 . Master's thesis University of Vienna 2012, p. 112, note 436 ( digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Bloch, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1920
Place of death Vienna