Otto Veh

Otto Veh (born September 8, 1909 , † December 5, 1992 ) was a German teacher , historian and translator .

Otto Veh studied Latin, Greek, German and history and received his doctorate in Munich in 1933. He was active in the school service, from 1953 as headmaster of the humanistic grammar school in Fürth , from 1960 as head of the Riemenschneider grammar school in Würzburg .

Veh has particularly distinguished himself as a translator of several Latin and Greek works. In addition, he published numerous works on Franconian regional history, especially in the archive for the history of Upper Franconia and in the yearbook of the Historical Association for Middle Franconia .

Translations

• Plutarch : Alexander (Vitae Parallelae) . 2 volumes, Bamberg 1958.
• Plutarch: Caesar (Vitae Parallelae) . 2 volumes, Bamberg 1960.
• Xenophon : Hieron. Or talk about tyranny . Fürth 1960.
• Prokopios of Caesarea : Works . 5 volumes, Munich 1961–1977.
• Ammianus Marcellinus : The Roman Empire before the end . Introduction and remarks by Gerhard Wirth . Zurich 1974, ISBN 3-7608-3514-7 .
• Cassius Dio : Roman History . 5 volumes, Zurich 1985–1987.
• Appian of Alexandria : Roman History . 2 volumes, Stuttgart 1987–1989.
• Zosimos : New Story . Reviewed and explained by Stefan Rebenich . Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-7772-9025-4 .

Fonts

• Bavaria and the unification efforts in the German postal system in the years 1847–1850 . Dissertation, University of Munich 1933.
• Lexicon of the Roman Emperors. From Augustus to Justinian . Zurich 1976, ISBN 3-7608-4056-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Otto Veh in the catalog of the German National Library
• Veh's translation of Diodorus