Oskar Hey

Oskar Hey (born March 10, 1866 in Munich ; † June 18, 1943 ibid) was a German high school teacher and classical philologist .

Life

Oskar Hey came from a family of artists. His parents were the music teacher Julius Hey (1832–1909) and Karoline geb. Benfey (1840-1880). He had five younger siblings, including the draftsman Paul Hey (1867–1952), the diplomat Siegfried Hey (1875–1963), the singer Ottilie Hey (* 1873) and the singing teacher Hans Erwin Hey (1877–1943).

Hey studied Classical Philology at the University of Munich , where he was particularly influenced by Eduard Wölfflin . Hey wrote his dissertation with him, with which he was awarded a Dr. phil. received his doctorate . After the state examination, he worked first as an unskilled worker at the Münzkabinett in Munich, then as an assistant at the Realgymnasium Munich and as a high school teacher in Neuburg an der Donau . On September 16, 1894 he was given leave to work as secretary at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinaeto work. His duties included monitoring the assistants who were collecting material for the lexicon project. He himself sifted through the writings of numerous Latin authors (especially rhetoricians, historians and Latin church fathers). On September 30, 1899, his job ran out, but he continued to write (until 1934) articles for the thesaurus. In 1903 Hey was appointed professor. His vacation was extended annually by the Bavarian state until Hey retired in 1921. From October 1, 1927 to 1934, he was the editor of the thesaurus and edited the G-Band together with the general editor Georg Dittmann and four employees.

In addition to Latin semantics and lexicology , Hey's research interests also included Greek religion.

Fonts (selection)

• Semasiological studies . In: New Yearbooks for Philology and Education . Supplement volume 18 (1892), pp. 81-212 ( digitized version ). First reprint under the title: Double forms and differentiation of meanings in Latin . Leipzig 1890 (dissertation, Munich).
• Max Haushofer the poet . JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachhaben, Stuttgart 1907.
• The dream belief of antiquity. A historical attempt. I . Munich 1908 (school program, digitized version ).
• The roots of the Greek religion in particular with the belief in dreams. A historical attempt . Neuburg 1910 (school program, digitized version )

literature

• Dietfried Krömer , Manfred Flieger (ed.): Thesaurus stories. Contributions to a Historia Thesauri linguae Latinae by Theodor Bögel (1876–1973) . Leipzig 1996. ISBN 3-8154-7101-X , pp. 72-74; 195; 214; Portrait panel I, after p. 36

Web links

Wikisource: Oskar Hey  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by Oskar Hey in the catalog of the German National Library