Ludwig Less

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Ludwig Less (born March 8, 1841 in Neumarkt , Province of Silesia ; died March 5, 1926 in Weimar ) was a German high school teacher, classical philologist and archaeologist .

From 1850, Ludwig Less attended the pedagogy at the monastery of Our Dear Women in Magdeburg , but in 1857 he switched to the Friedrich-Werdersche Gymnasium in Berlin , where he passed the Abitur in 1861. In the same year he began studying classical philology and archeology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin . There he heard from the philologists August Boeckh and Moriz Haupt , from the philosopher Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg , the newly appointed historian Theodor Mommsen , and above all from the archaeologist Eduard Gerhard , the founder of the Istituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica , the predecessor of the German Archaeological Institute . Less also dedicated his dissertation to him. In 1863, in the middle of the philologists dispute in Bonn , Less moved to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . There he heard from both opponents, Otto Jahn and Friedrich Ritschl , who split the Philological Seminary into two camps. Ritschel receives special attention from less in his résumé.

In Bonn, he was in 1865 with a thesis on Delphi doctorate and put directly the state examination for the teaching profession from. In 1863 he entered the service of the private school Kortegarn in Bonn as a teacher and in 1866 switched to the Elisabet-Gymnasium in Breslau . In 1875 he took over the Realgymnasium in Eisenach as director , to which he had belonged since 1873. A call to the position of director then led him to the Wilhelm-Ernst-Gymnasium in Weimar in 1881 , which he headed until 1908.

Less concentrated his research on the interpretation of Greek mythology as well as the religion and cults of the Greeks, the results of which he published not only in the programs of the grammar schools in Eisenach and Weimar. His scientific knowledge was equally valued in Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher's Detailed Lexicon of Greek and Roman Mythology , on which he contributed for a long time.

Publications (selection)

  • Quaestionum Delphicarum specimen. Bonn 1865.
  • The religious side of the great Pythias. A contribution to Delphic heortology. Wroclaw 1870.
  • The Alexandrian Museum. A sketch from the learned life of antiquity. Lüderitz, Berlin 1875.
  • The College of the Thyiads at Delphi. Eisenach 1876.
  • The College of Sixteen Women and the Dionysus Service in Elis. Eisenach 1883.
  • The divine service in Olympia. Habel, Berlin 1884.
  • The holy olive tree in Olympia. Weimar 1895.
  • Ancient Greek tree cult. Dieterich, Leipzig 1919.

literature

  • Franz Koessler: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century. Waag - Wytzes . Giessen 2007.
  • Georg Siefert: Ludwig Less . In: Biographisches Jahrbuch für Altertumskunde 55 = annual report on the progress of classical antiquity 223, 1929, pp. 1–21.
  • Ludwig Less: CV in the dissertation. Bonn 1865 (Latin, digitized ).

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