Wilhelm Dittenberger
Wilhelm Dittenberger (born August 31, 1840 in Heidelberg , † December 29, 1906 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German classical philologist and epigraphist .
Life
Wilhelm Dittenberger was the son of the Protestant theologian Wilhelm Theophor Dittenberger . After attending school in Heidelberg and Weimar (temporarily under the director Hermann Sauppe ) he studied classical philology in Jena from 1859 and moved to Göttingen in 1861, where he met Hermann Sauppe again and received his doctorate in early 1863 with a thesis on the Attic Ephebe . Since autumn of that year he has taught at the Göttingen grammar school and at the same time completed his habilitation in 1864 at the University of Göttingen on Sallust . Nevertheless, Dittenberger initially remained in the school service and in 1865 became a teacher at the Joachimsthalschen Gymnasium in Berlin, from 1867 at the Gymnasium in Rudolstadt, and from 1873 to 1874 at the Gymnasium in Quedlinburg. In 1874 he became a full professor of classical philology at the University of Halle . He was a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences (since 1882) and a full member of the German Archaeological Institute .
Dittenberger's main research area was Greek epigraphy. His name is mainly associated with the two collections Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum (later edited by Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen ) and Orientis Graeci inscriptiones selectae (Greek inscriptions from Asia). Both works are widespread internationally and can be cited to this day. For the Inscriptiones Graecae Dittenberger published the inscriptions of Attica in Roman times, the Megaris and Boiotiens as well as Phokis, Lokris, Aitolien, Akarnanien and the Ionian Islands. In addition, he edited the inscriptions of Olympia (together with Karl Purgold ) and the 6th to 11th edition of the widespread commentary on Caesar's De bello Gallico , which Friedrich Kraner had founded.
His son Heinrich Dittenberger (1875–1952) was a lawyer in Halle, Leipzig and Berlin and from 1910 to 1933 first director of the German Lawyers' Association .
Wilhelm Dittenberger's library was acquired by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after his death in 1907 , as was the library of Johannes Vahlen later (1913) . Together, the two libraries form the Dittenberger-Vahlen Collection of Classical Texts, with over 15,000 books and over 17,000 offprints. With financial support from the National Endowment for the Humanities , the university began digitizing this inventory in 2000 .
Dittenberger's grave is in the north cemetery in Halle. Dittenbergerstrasse, named after him in 1911, leads from Paracelsusstrasse to Hollystrasse.
Fonts
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Inscriptiones Graecae
- Vol. 3: Inscriptiones Atticae aetatis Romanae . 2 parts. Reimer, Berlin 1878–1882. Reprint 1977–1978, ISBN 3-11-004911-2 , ISBN 3-11-007004-9 .
- Vol. 7: Inscriptiones Megaridis et Boeotiae . Reimer, Berlin 1892. Reprint 1978, ISBN 3-11-007005-7 .
- Vol. 9, 1: Inscriptiones Phocidis, Locridis, Aetoliae, Acarnaniae, insularum maris Ionii . Reimer, Berlin 1897. Reprint 1978, ISBN 3-11-007006-5 .
- Sylloge inscriptionum Graecarum . 2 volumes. Leipzig 1883.
- Orientis Graeci inscriptiones selectae . 2 volumes. Leipzig 1903-1905. Reprint Olms, Hildesheim 1986, ISBN 3-487-00028-8 , ISBN 3-487-00029-6 .
- Wilfried Gawantka: Updating concordances on Dittenberger's Orientis Graeci inscriptiones selectae (OGIS) and on the third edition of the Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum (Syll. 3), which he founded . Hildesheim u. a. 1977, ISBN 3-487-06447-2 .
literature
- Otto Kern : Wilhelm Dittenberger. In: Historical Commission for the Province of Saxony and for Anhalt (Hrsg.): Mitteldeutsche Lebensbilder. Volume 3: Pictures of Life in the 18th and 19th Century. Self-published, Magdeburg 1928, pp. 522-538.
- Georg Wissowa : Wilhelm Dittenberger. In: Biographical Yearbook for Classical Studies. Volume 31, 1908, pp. 1–52 .
- Hans-Dieter Zimmermann: Wilhelm Dittenberger (1840–1906). On the 100th anniversary of the death of an eminent scholar and committed local politician. In: Yearbook for Hallische Stadtgeschichte 2006. Stekovics, Halle 2006, pp. 264–269, ISBN 978-3-89923-133-5 .
- Lisa Sophie Cordes, Hans-Ulrich Berner: Dittenberger, Wilhelm. In: Peter Kuhlmann , Helmuth Schneider (Hrsg.): History of the ancient sciences. Biographical Lexicon (= The New Pauly . Supplements. Volume 6). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02033-8 , Col. 310 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Dittenberger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Wilhelm Dittenberger in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
- Information Dittenberger-Vahlen Collection of Classical Texts (English)
Remarks
- ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar. Volume 7, 1950.
First chair: August Seidler (1816–1824) | Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier (1825–1855) | Theodor Bergk (1857–1869) | Heinrich Keil (1869–1894) | Georg Wissowa (1895–1924) | Ernst Diehl (1925–1937) | Franz Altheim (1937–1948) | Werner Peek (1951–1969) | Joachim Ebert (1983–1995) | Michael Hillgruber (since 1995)
Second chair: Abraham Gottlieb Raabe (1817–1845) | Wilhelm Dittenberger (1874–1906) | Otto Kern (1907–1931) | Paul Friedländer (1932–1935) | Erich Reitzenstein (1937–1958) | Berthold Häsler (1960–1974) | Wolfgang Kirsch (1986–1993) | Rainer Jakobi (since 1993)
Third chair: Karl Christian Reisig (1824–1829) | Gottfried Bernhardy (1829–1875) | Eduard Hiller (1876-1891) | Friedrich Blass (1892–1907) | Karl Praechter (1907–1927)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dittenberger, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist and epigraphist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 31, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 1906 |
| Place of death | Halle (Saale) |