List of Classical Philologists at the University of Basel
The list of Classical Philologists at the University of Basel includes all Classical Philologists who were or are active as professors at the University of Basel . This generally includes full, non-scheduled, guest and honorary professors as well as private lecturers . In justified exceptional cases, other lecturers can also be accepted. From 1819 onwards, the subject of Classical Philology was represented by two regular professors specializing in Greek and Latin studies. The Philological Seminary was founded in 1861 under the aegis of the Graecist Wilhelm Vischer-Bilfinger , who consulted Professor Friedrich Ritschl from Bonn on appointment issues . Vischer took care of the successive filling of the two professorships, which continue to this day. In 1874 a third professorial office was set up, which was dedicated to Indo-European linguistics. The Indo-European seminar is still connected to the seminar for classical philology.
List of Classical Philologists
The first column shows the name of the person and their life data, the second column shows entry into the university, and the third column shows their departure. Column four lists the highest position achieved at the University of Basel. At other universities, the corresponding lecturer may have made an even more extensive scientific career. The next column names special features, the career path or other information relating to the university or the seminar. The last column shows pictures of the lecturers, which is currently difficult due to the image rights.
scientist | from | to | Functions | Remarks | image |
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Emanuel Linder (1768–1843) | 1819 | 1843 | Full professor | First professor of Greek language and literature at the university, previously professor of Hebrew language and pastor | |
Franz Dorotheus Gerlach (1793–1876) | 1829 | 1875 | Full professor | First professor of Latin language and literature, also read about history; longtime librarian and rector of the university | |
Wilhelm Vischer-Bilfinger (1808–1874) | 1832 | 1861 | Full professor | Privatdozent, associate professor in 1835, full professor in 1836 for Greek language and literature; had a decisive influence on the Basel appointment policy; Released from teaching post in 1861 for his political activities | |
Johann Jakob Merian (1826-1892) | 1852 | 1892 | Associate professor | Privatdozent, Associate Professor in 1874 | |
Otto Ribbeck (1827–1898) | 1861 | 1862 | Full professor | Professor of Greek Studies, Ritschl student; founded the Philological Seminary with Vischer; moved to Kiel, Heidelberg, and later Leipzig | |
Adolph Kießling (1837-1893) | 1862 | 1869 | Full professor | Successor to Ribbeck, Ritschl student; went to Hamburg as a teacher | |
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) | 1869 | 1879 | Full professor | Successor to Kießling, Ritschl student; youngest professor of his time, controversial among philologists of his time; retired after ten years | |
Jacob Achilles Mähly (1828–1902) | 1853 | 1890 | Full professor | Privatdozent, Associate Professor in 1864; 1874 appointed professor of Latin studies as Gerlach's successor; Resigned in 1890 due to illness | |
Franz Misteli (1841–1903) | 1874 | 1898 | Full professor | associate professor; 1879 third professor for comparative linguistics and Indo-European studies; Resigned in 1898 due to illness | [1] |
Jacob Wackernagel (1853–1938) | 1879 | 1936 | Full professor | Successor to Nietzsche, also taught Indo-European studies; moved to Göttingen in 1902; 1915–1917 as successor to Jaeger's substitute professor for Greek studies, from 1915 to 1936 professor for Indo-European studies | |
Georg Ferdinand Dümmler (1859-1896) | 1890 | 1896 | Full professor | Successor to Mählys, archaeologist and philologist; died prematurely of overwork | |
Johannes Toepffer (1860–1895) | 1894 | 1895 | Associate professor | Professor of Classical Philology and Archeology, specialist in Attic history | |
Erich Bethe (1863-1940) | 1896 | 1903 | Full professor | Successor to Dümmlers; moved to Giessen | |
Ferdinand Sommer (1875–1962) | 1902 | 1909 | Full professor | Successor to Mistelis | [2] |
Alfred Körte (1866–1946) | 1903 | 1906 | Full professor | Successor of Bethes; moved to Giessen | |
Hermann Schöne (1870–1941) | 1906 | 1909 | Full professor | Successor to Körtes; moved to Greifswald, later Münster | |
Rudolf Herzog (1871–1953) | 1909 | 1914 | Full professor | Successor to Sommers, epigraphist; moved to Giessen | |
Friedrich Münzer (1868–1942) | 1896 | 1912 | Full professor | Private lecturer, associate professor in 1902, full professor in the same year; 1909 appointed Full Professor of Latin Studies as successor Schöne; moved to Königsberg | |
Max Niedermann (1874–1954) | 1899 | 1925 | Full professor | 1909 extraordinary, 1911 full professor of comparative linguistics; moved to Neuchâtel | [3] |
Ernst Lommatzsch (1871–1949) | 1912 | 1913 | Full professor | Successor to Münzer; moved to Greifswald | |
Walter F. Otto (1874–1958) | 1913 | 1914 | Full professor | Successor to Lommatzsch; moved to Frankfurt / Main | |
Werner Jaeger (1888–1961) | 1914 | 1915 | Full professor | Successor to Duke; moved to Kiel; his chair was represented by Jacob Wackernagel from Göttingen until 1917 | |
Peter von der Mühll (1885–1970) | 1917 | 1952 | Full professor | Successor to Jaeger; famous Iliad researcher | |
Johannes Stroux (1886–1954) | 1914 | 1922 | Full professor | Successor to Otto; moved to Kiel | |
Günther Jachmann (1887–1979) | 1922 | 1925 | Full professor | Successor to Stroux; moved to Cologne | |
Kurt Latte (1891–1964) | 1925 | 1931 | Full professor | Successor to Jachmann; moved to Göttingen | |
Eduard Fraenkel (1888–1970) | 1931 | 1932 | Chair representative | Full professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , took over lectures until Harald Fuchs took over the chair. | |
Harald Fuchs (1900–1985) | 1932 | 1970 | Full professor | Latte's successor | |
Albert Debrunner (1884-1958) | 1940 | 1949 | Full professor | Professor of Comparative Linguistics in Bern, 1940–49 also in Basel; Wackernagel student | [4] |
Alfred Bloch (1915–1983) | 1942 | 1982 | Full professor | Privatdozent for Comparative Linguistics, 1949 Associate Professor, 1951 Head of the Indo-European Seminar, 1953 Personal Full Professor; with his resignation in 1982, he resigned from the chair | [5] |
Karl Meuli (1891–1968) | 1926 | 1961 | Full professor | Privatdozent, associate professor in 1933, full professor in 1942; Ethnologist and religious scholar | |
Bernhard Wyss (1905–1986) | 1952 | 1976 | Full professor | Successor Von der Mühlls; Ancient historian and high school teacher; held Greek lectures until his death | |
Josef Delz (1922-2005) | 1970 | 1987 | Full professor | Successor to Fuchs | |
Felix Heinimann (1915-2006) | 1966 | 1980 | Full professor | Successor to Meulis; after his retirement the third professorial chair remained vacant | |
Helmut Saake (* 1942) | 1970 | 1983 | Full professor | New Testament scholars; moved to Jönköping, later to Philadelphia, New Delhi and Los Angeles | |
Christoph Schäublin (* 1941) | 1973 | 1982 | Associate professor | Private Lecturer, Associate Professor in 1979; moved to Bern | |
Joachim Latacz (* 1934) | 1981 | 2002 | Full professor | Successor to Wyss; Epic researcher, Iliad and Homer specialist | |
Edzard Visser (* 1954) | 1986 | Private lecturer | Iliad Researcher | [6] | |
Fritz Graf (* 1944) | 1987 | 1999 | Full professor | Successor to Delz; moved to Princeton, then to Ohio State University | [7] |
Rudolf Wachter | 1991 | Associate professor | Lecturer, 1997 full professor, Indo-Europeanist | [8th] | |
Christine Walde (* 1960) | 1993 | 2005 | Private lecturer, assistant professor (SNSF) 2001–2005 | since October 2005 Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Mainz | [9] |
Jerzy Styka (* 1954) | 1999 | 2001 | Full professor | 1999 substitute professor, 2000 successor to Graf; moved to Krakow in 2001 | [10] |
Anton Bierl (* 1960) | 2002 | Full professor | Successor to Latacz | [11] | |
Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer (* 1955) | 2002 | Ordinaria | Successor to Stykas | [12] |
literature
- 125 years of the Seminar for Classical Philology in Basel (1861 / 62–1986 / 87) . Basel 1987. Second edition, Basel 1991