Wilhelm Plankl

Wilhelm Plankl (born October 4, 1900 in Schwechat near Vienna ; † April 17, 1958 ) was an Austrian classical philologist and translator.

He received his doctorate on July 8, 1924 at the University of Vienna with the dissertation "Quatenus parodus cum dramatum expositione cohaereat".

With Karl Vretska he got a copy of Virgil's Aeneis using the translation by Ludwig Neuffer ( Reclams Universal-Bibliothek 1959). For the Tusculum Collection , he translated Alkiphron (letters to the hetaerae), Parthenios of Nicaea (love afflictions), Theophrastus of Eresos (characters) and Lukian of Samosata (talks with hetaerae). He also translated Ovid , Horace and Juvenal and edited a selection of the talks of the hetairians by Lukian , Alkiphron and Aristainetus published by Goldmann in 1958 .

In 1948 he was sentenced to three years in prison in Vienna for high treason and enrichment during the Aryanization (1938, Saphir-Handelsgesellschaft owned by Kurt Bial, Plankl became a third partner in 1942) and other allegations (under the War Crimes Act).

literature

Karl Vretska : Obituary in Anzeiger für die Altertumswwissenschaft 11, 1958, Sp. 127.

Individual evidence

^ Hellmut Butterweck: National Socialists before the People's Court Vienna. Austria's struggle for justice 1945–1955 in contemporary public perception . StudienVerlag, Innsbruck 2016, ISBN 978-3-7065-5480-0 , p.?.

personal data
SURNAME	Plankl, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian classical philologist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	4th October 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schwechat
DATE OF DEATH	April 17, 1958

[1] Hellmut Butterweck: National Socialists before the People's Court Vienna. Austria's struggle for justice 1945–1955 in contemporary public perception . StudienVerlag, Innsbruck 2016, ISBN 978-3-7065-5480-0 , p.?.