Otto Hiltbrunner

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Otto Hiltbrunner (born December 29, 1913 in Burgdorf ; † January 19, 2017 in Lörrach ) was a Swiss classical philologist ( Latinist ).

Life

Otto Hiltbrunner attended high school in Burgdorf. After graduating from high school in 1932, he studied classical philology, from 1932 to 1934 at the University of Bern , 1934 at the University of Königsberg , and from 1935 to 1938 again in Bern. After the state examination in Latin, Greek and German, he deepened his studies from 1938 to 1939 at the University of Göttingen under Karl Deichgräber , where he received his doctorate in 1943 with the dissertation of repetition and motif technique under Aeschylus . From 1940 he worked as a research assistant on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae . In 1948 he was appointed editor. His habilitation took place in 1958 at the University of Bern with the thesis Latina Graeca .

In 1960, after the end of his time at the thesaurus, Hiltbrunner was employed for a short time (1961/1962) as a research assistant at the University of Munich , where he completed his habilitation in 1962. In the same year he followed a call to the University of Münster to a newly created chair for Latin studies , which he held until his retirement in 1979.

Hiltbrunner dealt with the culture and literature of the Roman world from the imperial era to the early Middle Ages . In addition to numerous articles and encyclopedia articles, he published the Kleine Lexikon der Antike in 1946 , which was reissued in 1950, 1961, 1964, 1974 and 1995. In 2005, at the age of 91, he published the monograph Hospitality in Antiquity and Early Christianity .

Memberships

Since 1943 he was a member of the Swiss Association in Munich. In 1998 the association published an association chronicle which contained an article by Hiltbrunner about Swiss artists and scholars in Munich during the royal era.

Publications (selection)

  • Repetition and motif technique in Aeschylus. Göttingen 1943, DNB 570365007 (Dissertation University of Göttingen, Philosophical Faculty, 1943, 104 pages).
  • Small encyclopedia of antiquity encompassing the Greco-Roman world from its beginnings to the beginning of the Middle Ages (6th century AD) . Francke, Bern 1946; 6th edition 1995, ISBN 3-7720-1036-9 .
  • Latina Graeca. Semasiological studies of Latin words with regard to their relationship to Greek models. Francke, Bern 1958, DNB 57380558X (habilitation thesis University of Bern, Faculty of Philosophy and History 1958, 207 pages).
  • The Swiss Association of Munich. Speech on the 125th anniversary of the foundation . Munich 1974, DNB 810478609
  • Swiss artists and scholars in Munich during the royal era. In: 170 Years of the Swiss Association of Munich eV Munich 1998, pp. 47–74.
  • Hospitality in ancient times and in early Christianity . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-18383-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hiltbrunner, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgdorf BE
DATE OF DEATH 19th January 2017
Place of death Loerrach