Wolfgang Aly

Wolfgang Aly, Aly also Wolf ( born August 12, 1881 in Magdeburg, † September 3, 1962 at Phaistos in Crete ) was a German philologist Classic.

Life

Wolfgang Aly, son of classical scholar and headmaster Gottfried Friedrich Aly, a great-grandson of the chamber Turks Friedrich Aly, studied in Magdeburg and Bonn and received his doctorate in 1904 in Bonn with a dissertation on Aeschylus. After a research stay in Crete in 1905 he became an assistant in Freiburg in the same year. In 1908 he habilitated there over the Cretan Apollo cult. From 1913 Aly was in Freiburg impairment associate professor and lecturer since 1928. Aly dealt with numerous issues in the field of Greek literature (such as Aeschylus, Hesiod, Herodotus, Homer and Strabo ). Among the Latin authors he dealt primarily with Livy. Since 1914 he was a member of Pauly Realencyclopädie of classical archeology.

In the era of National Socialism

Aly was a convinced National Socialist: On December 1, 1931, he joined the first Freiburg university member of the Nazi Party. He was also a member of the SA, in which he rose to the Hauptsturmführer. After 1933, he became the Nazis Gauschulungsredner. He also had contacts with the SD and should have done on this spying. In 1936 he published the treatise German revolution in the classical languages ​​teaching.

"By joining the Nazi Party on 1 December 1931, he was the oldest party member at the University, trying in this way to further his career inside and outside of Freiburg. " Together with the other representatives of classical philology in Fribourg, Hans Bogner and Hans Oppermann, both also Nazis, he tried to enforce a system-compatible orientation of the subject. However, after the departure of the two in 1941 to Strasbourg, he was fighting a losing battle; all his efforts did not lead him to a full professorship.

After the war

After the end of World War II Aly was released in 1945 as a high school teacher and retired in 1949. Subsequently, he was a member of the Association of amtsverdrängten high school teacher. His writings Homer (1937) and Livy (1938 ) (issue 2 and 4 of the series on the way to the national political Gymnasium) were set in the Soviet zone of occupation on the list of proscribed literature.