Rudolf Prinz (classical philologist)

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Rudolf Prinz (born March 14, 1847 in Hamm ; † October 23, 1890 ) was a German classical philologist and librarian who edited texts by ancient Greek playwrights .

Prinz studied classical philology at the University of Bonn with Otto Jahn , Arnold Dietrich Schaefer and Hermann Usener . In 1867 he received his doctorate ; his dissertation was entitled De Solonis Plutarchei fontibus .

In 1878/1879 he studied the manuscripts of the works of Sophocles and Euripides in Paris for eight months and published text editions of the tragedies Medea and Alcestis by Euripides. In 1880 he continued his study of manuscripts in particular by Sophocles and Euripides in the Bibliotheca Vaticana and the Bibliotheca Laurenziana . He intended a Sophocles edition (for which he identified a manuscript in the Vaticana as an Urtext edition), but the work in the cold Italian libraries ruined his health, so that he had to break off his stay. Since 1873 as curator at the State and University Library in Breslau , in 1882 he took over the management of the Royal Pauline Library in Münster , the predecessor of the later University and State Library . Of the planned complete edition of Euripides' fabulae , only the first three volumes were published during his lifetime: Medea in 1878 , Alcestis in 1879 and Hecuba in 1883 , all by Teubner in Leipzig . In 1888 he became a librarian in Königsberg , but fell ill with a nervous disease and was taken to a private mental hospital, where he died.

After his death, Nikolaus Wecklein published the edition he had begun by Euripides.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Nikolaus Wecklein (ed.): Euripidis Fabulae. Volume 1 in 7 parts: Medea, Alcestis, Hecuba, Electra, Ion, Helena, Cyclops. Edited by Rudolf Prinz. Teubner, Leipzig 1898 ( digitized version ).
  • with Nikolaus Wecklein (ed.): Euripidis Fabulae. Volume 2 in 6 parts: Iphigenia Taurica, Supplices, Bacchae, Heraclidae, Hercules, Iphigenia Aulidensis. Edited by Nikolaus Wecklein. Teubner, Leipzig 1898 ( digitized version ).
  • with Nikolaus Wecklein (ed.): Euripidis Fabulae. Volume 3 in 6 parts: Andromacha, Hippolytus, Orestes, Phoenissae, Troades, Rhesus. Edited by Nikolaus Wecklein. Teubner, Leipzig 1900–1902 ( digitized version ).

literature

  • John Edwin Sandys : The history of classical scholarship. Volume 3, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1908, p. 155 ( online ).
  • Arthur Ludwich : Rudolf Prinz. In: Biographisches Jahrbuch für Altertumskunde. Volume 14, 1891, pp. 122-132 ( online ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and death dates according to Christian Tilitzki : The Albertus University of Königsberg. Volume 1: 1871-1918. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-05-004312-8 , p. 688.
  2. ↑ Euripidis fabulae. Vol. I Pars I. Medea ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Euripidis fabulae. Vol. I Pars II. Alcestis ( digitized version ).
  4. ↑ Euripidis fabulae. Vol. I Pars III. Hecuba ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ John Edwin Sandys writes: ... he suffered from strange mental delusions (in: The history of classical scholarship. ) Volume 3, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1908, p. 155 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Prince, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamm
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1890