Rudolf Hirzel

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Rudolf Hirzel (born March 20, 1846 in Leipzig , † December 30, 1917 in Jena ) was a German classical philologist who worked as a professor in Leipzig (1877-1886) and Jena (1886-1917).

Life

Rudolf Hirzel was the second son of the Leipzig publisher Salomon Hirzel and attended the St. Thomas School in Leipzig. He studied classical philology in Heidelberg, Göttingen (especially with Hermann Sauppe ) and Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1868 with Moriz Haupt . After military service and military service, he completed his habilitation in 1871 at the University of Leipzig with a study on rhetoric and its significance in Plato . Hirzel was an associate professor in Leipzig from 1877 to 1886. In 1886 he went to Jena as an associate professor. In 1888 he became a full professor there. In the winter semester of 1895/96 he was rector of the University of Jena.

Hirzel was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences (1896) and a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1911). In 1913 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig. His scientific work is determined more by philosophical questions than by philological questions. In his dissertation and habilitation thesis he dealt with Plato's theory of goods and his position on rhetoric. In his work Plutarch the life, work and afterlife of the author are presented. One of his most important books is Themis, Dike and their relatives . Werner Jaeger wrote about this work in 1934: "The book R. Hirzel's Themis, Dike und Verwandtes (Leipzig 1907), which was very meritorious for its time, but not historical enough , is out of date in some respects, but is still a treasure trove of material."

Fonts

  • Research on Cicero's philosophical writings. 3 vols. Hirzel, Leipzig 1877–1883.
  • The dialogue. An attempt at literary history. 2 parts, Hirzel Leipzig 1895.
  • The oath. A contribution to its history. Hirzel Leipzig 1902.
  • Themis, Dike and related. A contribution to the history of the legal idea among the Greeks. Hirzel, Leipzig 1907. ( digitized version )
  • Plutarch (= the legacy of the ancients. Writings on the nature and effects of antiquity. 4). Dieterich, Leipzig 1912. ( digitized version )
  • The person. Term and name of the same in antiquity (= session reports of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Philological and Historical Class. 1914,10). Publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 1914.
  • The name. A contribution to its history in antiquity and especially among the Greeks (= treatises of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class / Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften Leipzig Philological-Historical Class. 36.2). Teubner, Leipzig 1918

literature

  • Carl Becker :  Hirzel, Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 246 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Christian Tornau: Rudolf Hirzel (1846–1917), o. Professor of Classical Philology in Jena 1888–1914. In: Meinolf Vielberg (Ed.): The classical antiquity at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (= Colloquium on antiquity. 23). Steiner, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-515-09865-6 , pp. 189-224.
  • Benno von Hagen: Rudolf Hirzel. In: Conrad Bursian, A. Körte: Biographical yearbook for the ancient studies. OR Reisland, Leipzig, 1920, vol. 39, year 1919, p. 56 ( online )

Web links

Wikisource: Rudolf Hirzel  - Sources and full texts

Remarks

  1. ↑ Werner Jaeger: Paideia. The formation of the Greek man. Berlin 1936. p. 145.
personal data
SURNAME Hirzel, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1917
Place of death Jena