Wilhelm Wagner (philologist)

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Wilhelm Wagner

Wilhelm Wagner (born May 11, 1843 in Steinau near Hanau ; † April 15, 1880 in Naples ) was a German classical philologist , Neo-Greekist and high school teacher.

Wagner attended the municipal grammar school in Frankfurt am Main , led by the classical philologist and pedagogue Johannes Classen , and studied classical philology from 1861, first in Berlin , then in Bonn . In 1864 he received his doctorate eximia cum laude with a dissertation on the comedy poet Plautus under Friedrich Ritschl . This was followed by a six-year stay in England , initially as a tutor for German families in Manchester , and from 1867 as a private scholar in London . In 1870 he accepted a position as a full teacher at the learned school of the Johanneum in Hamburg on the appointment of Johannes Classen, who had moved there . In 1879 he was given a six-month leave to search for manuscripts in Central Greek in Italian libraries. On this trip he fell ill with pneumonia, and eventually typhoid, and died of it at the age of 37. He is buried on the Cimitero degli Inglesi in Naples.

His research had three main focuses: 1. Plautus research (he devoted various works to Terenz , another comedy poet , and the philosopher Plato ), 2. Research into popular linguistic monuments from the Greek Middle Ages, and 3. Shakespeare and his time.

Fonts (selection)

  • T. Maccius Plautus, Trinummus. German in the meter of the original. Frankfurt am Main 1861.
  • De Plauti Aulularia. Bonn 1864 (dissertation)
  • T. Macci Plauti Aulularia with Notes and an Introduction. Cambridge 1866, 2nd edition 1876; Reprints 1887, 1892, 1901.
  • P. Terenti Comoediae. With Notes Critical and Exegetical, an Introduction and Appendix. Cambridge 1869.
  • P. Terenti Comoediae. Guilelmus Wagner relegit et emendavit. Cambridge 1869.
  • Πλάτωνος Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους καὶ Κρίτων. Plato's Apology of Socrates and Crito. With Notes Critical and Exegetical, Introductory Notices and a Logical Analysis of the Apology. Cambridge 1869. Revised and corrected edition 1876. Reprinted in 1892.
  • Medieval Greek texts. Being a Collection of the Earliest Compositions in Vulgar Greek, prior to the Year 1500. Edited with Prolegomena and Critical Notes. London 1870.
  • Πλάτωνος Φαίδων. Plato's Phaedo. With Notes Critical and Exegetical and an Analysis. Cambridge 1870.
  • T. Macci Plauti Trinummus. With Notes Critical and Exegetical. Cambridge 1872, 2nd edition 1875, reprinted 1881.
  • P. Terenti Hauton Timorumenos. Berlin 1872.
  • Carmina Graeca medii aevi. Leipzig 1874.
  • T. Macci Plauti Menaechmi. With Notes Critical and Exegetical and an Introduction. Cambridge 1878. Reprinted 1887.
  • A book of German Dactylic Poetry. Cambridge 1878
  • Ἀλφάβητος τῆς ἀγάπης. The ABC of Love, a collection of Rhodian love songs. Published for the first time, translated metrically and provided with a dictionary. Leipzig 1879.
  • Dimitrios Vikelas (Ed.): Trois poèmes grecs du moyen-âge inédits. Berlin 1881

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SURNAME Wagner, Wilhelm (philologist)
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagner, Guilelmus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and modernist
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinau near Hanau
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1880
Place of death Naples