Walther Kraus

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Walther Kraus (born December 29, 1902 in Vienna ; † November 5, 1997 ibid) was an Austrian classical philologist .

Life

He studied classical philology at the University of Vienna and for a year in Leipzig and received his doctorate on the Testimonia Aristophanea in the spring of 1927 in Vienna, where Ludwig Radermacher was primarily his teacher. In 1928 he passed the teaching examination and has been employed in the school service ever since. In 1938 he was dismissed from school because he was "on his father's side of Jewish origin", he could no longer submit his completed habilitation thesis, and he was no longer allowed to enter the university. Friends helped him to a modest livelihood, so he wrote the article Ovid for the Realencyclopedia around this time . In 1945 he returned to school and received his habilitation at the University of Vienna, where he has been teaching since the winter semester 1945/46. In 1951 he became an associate professor, succeeding Karl Mras , and a full professor from 1955 until his retirement in 1973. 1968/1969 he was rector of the University of Vienna . Kraus was buried at the Ober Sankt Veiter cemetery .

Publications

  • One from all. Studies on ancient intellectual history , Heidelberg 1984 (collected small writings, p. 465–476 list of writings)

literature

  • Rudolf Hanslik u. a. (Ed.): Antidosis. Festschrift for Walther Kraus on his 70th birthday , Vienna 1972
  • Hans Schwabl , Walther Kraus , in Almanach of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 147, 1996/97, pp. 603–614 (with addendum to the list of publications)
  • Erich Woytek : Walther Kraus , in: Gnomon 70, 1998, pp. 727-732
  • Franz Römer / Hans Schwabl: Classical Philology, in: Karl Acham (Hrsg.), History of Austrian Human Sciences 5: Language, Literature and Art , Vienna 2003, pp. 100-104.
  • Franz Römer: "cum ira et studio". Observations on the development of Viennese classical philology after 1945 , in: Future with contaminated sites. The University of Vienna 1945 to 1955 , ed. v. Margarete Grandner, Gernot Heiss / Oliver Rathkolb, Innsbruck, Vienna a. a. 2005, pp. 231-232
  • Ernst Vogt : Memory of Walther Kraus , in: exempla selecta. Festschrift for Hugo Beikircher , Munich 2008, pp. 43–47

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personal data
SURNAME Kraus, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1997
Place of death Vienna