Willy Morel
Willy Alfred Morel (born August 8, 1894 in Frankfurt am Main , † April 9, 1973 in London ) was a German classical philologist .
Life
Morel came from a wealthy Jewish family. He studied - interrupted from 1915 to 1918 by military service during the First World War - Classical Philology at the Universities of Freiburg , Strasbourg and Frankfurt , where he in 1921 with a dissertation about the tragedy Hypsipile of Euripides doctorate was (De Euripidis Hypsipyla) . After receiving his doctorate, he lived as a private scholar in Frankfurt and devoted himself to extensive publication activities. In addition to numerous articles and literary reports, he published two larger text editions: Fragmenta Poetarum Latinorum (Leipzig 1927) and Appendix Vergiliana (Leipzig 1935).
During the Nazi era , repression began against Morel. The opportunity to publish was gradually withdrawn from him. In addition to articles in foreign journals, he published articles for the Realencyclopadie der classical antiquity , whose editors Wilhelm Kroll and Karl Mittelhaus also kept the company open to Jewish scholars.
During the Reichspogromnacht in 1938, Morel was arrested and briefly imprisoned in the concentration camp . After his release emigrated it to England in 1939. He settled in Cambridge and moved to London in 1941, where he lived as a private scholar until his death. In 1949 he became a British citizen. Part of his estate is in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek .
While in exile in England, Morel no longer published any major works. His edition of the Fragmenta Poetarum Latinorum is of greatest importance . The edition was reprinted unchanged in 1963 and 1975. After this second reprint, which appeared two years after Morel's death, Karl Büchner undertook a revision, which Jürgen Blänsdorf completed after his death (1981) . The third and fourth amended editions (1995, 2011) also come from Blänsdorf.
literature
- Eckart Mensching : An obituary for Willy Morel (Aug. 8, 1894– Apr. 9, 1973) . In: Latin and Greek in Berlin. (Bulletin of the Landesverband Berlin des Deutschen Altphilologenverband 33 (1989), pp. 110–124 (= ders .: Nugae zur Philologie-Geschichte 3, Berlin 1990. pp. 48–63).)
- Eckart Mensching: Morel, Willy. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 97 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Willy Morel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Estate in the Bavarian State Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ See the positive review by Ulrich Knoche : Gnomon . Volume 4 (1928), pp. 687-697; on the other hand the critical review by Alfred Edward Housman : The Classical Review . Volume 42 (1928), pp. 77-79.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morel, Willy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Morel, Willy Alfred (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 9, 1973 |
| Place of death | London |