Rudolf Beutler

Rudolf Beutler (born April 28, 1911 in Ortelsburg , † September 7, 1975 in Munich ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Rudolf Beutler, the son of the elementary school principal Carl Beutler, studied classical philology at the University of Königsberg . He was shaped most by Willy Theiler , with whom Beutler continued to work after his studies. In 1933 he spent a semester as a scholarship holder at Berlin University . In 1935 he was in Konigsberg with a dissertation on Minucius Felix Dr. phil. PhD . The speakers were Willy Theiler and Walter F. Otto .

From October 1936 to April 1938, Beutler worked at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich, where he wrote articles for volumes V, 2 and VIII. After a year as a lecturer in classical philology, he was appointed assistant at the philological seminar at the University of Munich in 1939.

During the Second World War , Beutler was used in the artillery in the Netherlands and Italy. From May to August 1945 he was an Italian prisoner of war; then he was employed in a "wood procurement campaign" until January 1946 and gave English lessons.

From 1948 to 1952, Beutler worked as a lecturer at the Philosophical-Theological University of Regensburg . In 1950 he began his legal clerkship in Munich, in 1951 he passed the assessor examination and from 1952 he worked at the Karls-Gymnasium in Munich-Pasing.

In his scientific work, Beutler dealt with Greek philosophy, especially with Platonism . In 1957, together with his doctoral supervisor Willy Theiler, he undertook the complete translation of Plotin's writings , which Richard Harder had begun. Together they brought the extensive company to an end in 1971.

In addition, Beutler published school editions and translations of various Greek authors, especially in his series Das Wort der Antike .

literature

• Dietfried Krömer , Manfred Flieger (ed.): Thesaurus stories. Contributions to a Historia Thesauri Linguae Latinae by Theodor Bögel (1876–1973) . Stuttgart / Leipzig 1996, p. 191

Web links

• Literature by Rudolf Beutler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Family tree of the Beutler family