Ludwig Preller (philologist)

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Ludwig Preller (born September 15, 1809 in Hamburg , † June 21, 1861 in Weimar ) was a German classical philologist and scholar.

After attending school at the Johanneum in Hamburg and the Katharineum in Lübeck , Preller studied philology and initially also theology in Leipzig , Berlin and Göttingen from 1828 , with Gottfried Hermann , August Böckh and Karl Otfried Müller , among others . In 1832 he received his doctorate with Müller in Göttingen with a thesis on Aeschylus . After a time as a private teacher in Hamburg, he was from 1833 private lecturer at the University of Kiel .

In 1838 Preller received a professorship for philology at the University of Dorpat , from which he resigned in 1843 due to a conflict between German professors and the Russian government. He spent some time in Italy before moving to Jena in 1844, where he lectured and received the title of professor in 1846. In 1847 he became head (senior librarian) of the ducal library in Weimar , the current Duchess Anna Amalia library . In 1852 he made an extensive trip to Greece.

Preller was a member of numerous scientific academies and societies. He wrote several books on the history of antiquity and also contributed to Gruber's General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts and Pauly's Real Encyclopedia of Classical Antiquities . His Greek Mythology was published in three editions, but it did not gain its real significance until Carl Robert worked on it in 1884.

In Weimar he was a member of the Freemason Lodge Anna Amalia zu den Drei Rosen .

Fonts

  • Demeter and Persephone. A cycle of mythological investigations. 1837.
  • with Heinrich Ritter : Historia philosophiae Graecae et Romanae ex fontium locis contexta. 1838.
  • Polemonis Periegetae fragmenta. Leipzig 1838.
  • The regions of the city of Rome. Jena 1846.
  • Carl Otto v. Madai in memory of him for his friends. Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1850.
  • Greek mythology. 2 volumes. Weidmann, Berlin 1854.
  • Roman mythology. 1858.

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SURNAME Preller, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1861
Place of death Weimar