Olaus Kellermann

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Olaus Christian Kellermann (born May 27, 1805 in Copenhagen , † September 4, 1837 in Rome ) was a German-Danish classical philologist and epigraphist .

Life

Kellermann's parents were Peter Johann Wilhelm Kellermann and his wife Marie Magdalene, geb. Broager . The father was head of the finance college and later office clerk at Neumünster . From 1819 Olaus Kellermann attended the Borgerdydskole in Copenhagen, from 1820 the Plön School of Scholars in Plön Castle and later again the Borgerdyskole. He studied classical philology in Copenhagen , with Nitzsch in Kiel and with Thiersch in Munich . Since 1827 he was a member of the Corps Holsatia .

With the dissertation De re militari Arcadum he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. From 1831 he worked in Rome on a scholarship at the Instituto di Correspondenza archeologica , founded in 1828 , from which the Reich Institute and later the German Archaeological Institute emerged . In 1832 he became secretary of the institute and for a time editor of the monthly Bulletino . He published Etruscan and especially Latin inscriptions , for which he pointed out new ways of collecting and researching. He advocated the publication of a Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum , which was only realized by Theodor Mommsen .

On September 1, 1837, at the age of 32, he died of cholera in the Evangelical Hospital in Rome on the Capitol . He was buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome .

His estate , kept in Rome, was handed over to the philologist Otto Jahn for viewing and publication in 1839 through the mediation of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

literature

  • Dansk biografisk leksikon . Vol. 7, p. 624

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to Holsatia member list: September 1st
  2. ^ A b Friedrich Prüser: Corps Holsatia - list of members 1813–1963 . Kiel 1963
  3. ↑ enrolled in Copenhagen on October 20, 1825
  4. ↑ enrolled in Kiel on April 30, 1828
  5. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 134 , 79
  6. ^ On the war system of the Arcadians , Munich 1831
personal data
SURNAME Kellermann, Olaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kellermann, Olaus Kristian; Kellermann, Hans Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish classical philologist and epigraphist
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen , Denmark
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1837 or September 4, 1837
Place of death Rome , Papal States