Alexander Riese

Friedrich Alexander Riese ( born June 2, 1840 in Frankfurt am Main, † October 8, 1924 ) was a German classical scholar.

Life

Alexander giant came from a respected family in Frankfurt. His great-uncle Johann Jacob Riese (1746-1827) was a childhood friend of Goethe's been, from which some letters were in the possession of up to 1920 A. Ries. A portrait of his great-uncle of Goethe's hand, the giant had presented on April 3, 1911 in the Frankfurter Zeitung and the later was lost for many years, located since 2008 in the Frankfurt Goethe Museum.

Alexander giant attended high school at Frankfort, 1859-1863 studied philology at the universities of Erlangen, Bonn and Berlin. In 1863 he was lecturer at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin, 1864 and 1868 Adjunct Associate Professor for several months at the University of Heidelberg. One of his students was the philologist and specialist in ancient philosophy Karl Praechter.

1868 giant head teacher and in 1871 professor at the Gymnasium at Frankfort was in Frankfurt he worked until his death, and took in the cultural life of his native city, in many ways part. In Heddernheim, where he was instrumental in excavations of Roman finds, now a street named after him.

Work

Scientifically significant Alexander giant is mainly due to its critical text editions and studies on the textual tradition. In addition to studies on the Menippeischen satires of Varro and Catullus himself giant turned to mainly Latin Small seal of antiquity. His collection edition of Anthologia Latina whose first part he got (the second part of the verse inscriptions was published by Franz Bücheler ) is not replaced today. In addition, published giant in the field of History; he edited, among others, the Roman inscriptions of the Rhineland.

  • De Commentario Vergiliano qui M. Valeri Probi dicitur ( Diss, Bonn, 1862)
  • M. Terenti Varronis Saturarum Menippearum reliquiae, Leipzig 1865 ( http://books.google.com/books?id=koX3mQGfkPUC )
  • Anthologia Latina sive poesis Latinae supplementum, 2 Bd.e Leipzig 1869-70
  • Geographical Latini minores, Heilbronn 1878
  • The poems of Catullus, Leipzig 1884
  • Historia Apollonii registered Tyri, Leipzig 1893
  • The Rhenish Germania in the ancient inscriptions, Leipzig 1914
  • Review of the origin and development of the Association for History and Archaeology in Frankfurt am Main, 1857-1907, in: Archive for History and Art Frankfurt 28, 1907, pp. 1-34
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