Wilhelm Baehrens

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Wilhelm Adolf Baehrens

Wilhelm Adolf Baehrens (born September 3, 1885 in Groningen , † January 23, 1929 in Göttingen ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Wilhelm Baehrens was the son of Emil Baehrens (1848–1888), Professor of Philology from Groningen . He attended the humanistic grammar school in his hometown and began studying classical philology and papyrology at the University of Groningen after his final exams because he was unsuitable for military service . After semesters in Halle , Göttingen and Berlin , Baehrens received his doctorate in Groningen in 1910 with the dissertation Panegyricorum latinorum editionis novae praefatio maior accedit Plinii panegyricus . For the next two years he worked as an assistant teacher at the humanistic grammar school in Groningen. In 1912 he published articles on Latin syntax . In 1913 he was commissioned by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences to publish the Latin homilies of Origen and in this context traveled through Italy, France and Germany until 1915 to compare manuscripts. For his work he received the venia legendi from the University of Groningen in 1915 and was appointed full professor at the University of Ghent in 1916 by the German government .

When the German occupation in Belgium ended after the end of the First World War , Baehrens was expelled as a collaborator in 1919. The benevolence of Professor Georg Wissowa from Halle enabled him to qualify there in May 1919. In October of the same year Baehrens gave his inaugural lecture in Halle, and in 1920 he was appointed associate professor. In 1922 he followed a call to the University of Göttingen as a personal professor with the budget of an associate professor. His Origines edition appeared in 1920-1925, an edition of Fulgentius remained unfinished because of his untimely death. The preparatory work for this edition is now in the Goettingen State and University Library .

Fonts (selection)

  • XII Panegyrici Latini . Leipzig 1911
  • Contributions to Latin Syntax . In: Philologus . Supplement Volume 12 (1912), pp. 235-556
  • Minucius Felix, Octavius . Leiden 1912
  • Tradition and text history of the Origen homilies to the OT, preserved in Latin . Leipzig 1916 ( Texts and studies on the history of early Christian literature . 3rd series, Volume 12, Issue 1)
  • Studia Serviana . Ghent 1917
  • Cornelius Labeo atque eius Commentarius Vergilianus . Ghent 1918
  • Works of Origen. Volume VI: Homilies on the Hexateuch in Rufin's translation . Part I, Leipzig 1920
  • Works of Origen. Volume VII: Homilies on the Hexateuch in Rufin's translation . Part II, Leipzig 1921
  • Linguistic commentary on the vulgar Latin appendix probi . Hall 1922
  • Works of Origen. Volume VIII: Homilies on Samuel I, the Song of Songs and the Prophets, Commentary on the Song of Songs, in Rufin's and Jerome's translations . Leipzig 1921

literature

  • Ulrich Schindel : Willem Adolf Bährens . In: Heinz Hofmann (Ed.): Latin studies in Groningen 1877–1977 . Groningen 1990, pp. 38–56 (with portrait and list of publications)
  • Cornelia Wegeler: "... we say from the international scholarly republic". Classical Studies and National Socialism. The Göttingen Institute for Classical Studies 1921–1962 . Vienna et al. 1996, ISBN 3-205-05212-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Baehrens, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baehrens, Wilhelm Adolf; Bährens, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Groningen
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1929
Place of death Goettingen