Adolf Kiessling

Adolph Kiessling (* February 15, 1837 in Culm, † May 3, 1893 in Strasbourg ) was a German classical scholar.

Life

Adolph Kiessling was the son of the pastor Adolph Kiessling ( senior) and the grandson of the philologist and Zeitz pin Director Gottlieb Kiessling. As a young boy, his mother died. He attended from 1851 the Berlin Friedrich -Wilhelms -Gymnasium, later, the Naumburg Domgymnasium. A year after his father's death ( 1855), Kiessling put the matriculation examination in Naumburg and went to the University of Bonn to study Classical Philology. Among his academic teachers were Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker, Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl, Franz Bücheler and Otto Jahn. 1858 Kiessling was Dr. phil. doctorate and went in 1860 as an adjunct to the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium Berlin.

Kiessling in 1863 was appointed full professor of classical philology at the University of Basel. In 1869 he returned as a teacher at the grammar school of Johanneums in Hamburg Germany. In 1872 he was appointed professor at the University of Greifswald, where his career reached its peak. With his colleague Ulrich von Wilamowitz- Moellendorff he published the series Philological studies. 1889 moved Kiessling as the successor of Friedrich Leo to Strasbourg ( with a salary bonus of 3000 dollars), where he died in 1893.

Services

Kiessling research focus were textual criticism and commentary of ancient texts. He was from 1860 to 1870, a basic edition of the writings of Dionysius of Halicarnassus and wrote to Ammianus, Seneca, Plautus, Catullus and Propertius. His major work was a comprehensive review of the writings of Horace, who appeared from 1884 to 1889 in three volumes and was published by Kiessling death of Richard Heinze in the third edition. By 1955, the plant underwent eight editions. It was last reprinted in 1967.

Together with Georg Kaibel Kiessling wrote the first translation of the newly discovered Athenaion Politeia of Aristotle, which appeared in the second edition in 1891.

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