Walter Müri

Walter Müri (born February 21, 1899 in Oberentfelden ; † May 26, 1968 in Bern ) was a Swiss classical philologist .

He studied at the University of Basel first medicine , then Classic from the third semester philology, history and German studies . After a few semesters at the University of Heidelberg , he graduated in Basel, where he in 1924 when Peter the Mühll and Jacob Wackernagel Dr. phil. received his doctorate . From 1925 he taught Latin, Greek and German at the Kirchenfeld literary school in Bern . From 1932 to 1955 he was the principal of the grammar school.

Müri has made a name for himself philologically in particular through studies of the history of words and concepts (for example on the terms symbol , dialectic , antiquity and others) as well as through dealing with ancient medical history .

Fonts (selection)

dissertation

• Research on the Vita Antonini Pii . Basel 1924.

Essays

• Symbolon. Word and factual historical study. Supplement to the annual report on the municipal high school in Bern, 1931.
• Doctor and patient with Hippocrates . Studies on the Corpus Hippocraticum . Annual report on the municipal high school in Bern, 1936.
• The word dialectic in Plato . In: Museum Helveticum . 1 (1944), pp. 152-168 ( doi : 10.5169 / seals-1288 ).
• Melancholy and black bile. In: Museum Helveticum 10, 1953, pp. 21–38; also in: Hellmut Flashar (Hrsg.): Ancient medicine. Darmstadt 1971 (= ways of research , 221), pp. 165–191.
• The antique. Investigation of the origin and development of the designation of a historical epoch. In: Antiquity and the Occident . 7 (1958), pp. 7-45. Reprinted in: ders .: Greek Studies…. 1976, pp. 243-306.
• Greek studies. Selected verbal and factual historical research on antiquity . Ed. V. Eduard Vischer. Friedrich Reinhardt, Basel 1976 (collection of articles).

Text editions and translations

• Xenophon : anabasis. The train of ten thousand. Greek-German. Heimeran, Munich 1954; last: edited and appended by Bernhard Zimmermann , Darmstadt 1997.
• The ancient doctor. Greek and Latin sources from Hippocrates to Galen . Heimeran, Munich 1938; 5th edition, Artemis & Winkler, Munich and Zurich 1986.

Contemporary history

• Carl Spitteler's speech of December 14, 1914: Our Swiss point of view - viewed rhetorically . Peter Lang, Bern 1972, ISBN 978-3-261-00341-6 (Writings of the Literary Society Bern, Volume 10).

literature

• Eduard Vischer : Walter Müri (1899–1969) to Otto J. Brendel (1901–1973). A letter that was not sent. In: Gymnasium. 100: 448-450 (1993).

Web links

• Walter Müri in the archive database of the Swiss Federal Archives
• Short biography in the Catalogus Philologorum Classicorum (Italian)