Alfred Körte

Alfred Korte ( born September 5, 1866 in Berlin, † September 6, 1946 in Leipzig ) was a German classical scholar. He has rendered outstanding by the discovery of the city of Gordion and its research, editing and translation work for the comic poet Menander.

Life

Alfred Korte was one of ten children of the Privy Council Medical Körte Friedrich ( 1818-1914 ). His siblings included the archaeologist Gustav Korte (1852-1917), the surgeon Werner Korte (1853-1937), the architect Friedrich Korte (1854-1934) and the Königsberg Mayor Siegfried Korte ( 1861-1919 ).

Körte studied at the universities of Berlin and Bonn Classical Philology, including Hermann Usener, and received his doctorate in 1890 in Bonn. Since 1895 he was a lecturer here and habilitated in 1896. In 1899 he accepted an appointment as associate professor at the University of Greifswald. In 1903, he became the successor to Erich Bethe to a professorship at the University of Basel. In 1906 he followed Bethe to the University of Giessen. In 1914 he moved to Freiburg, 1917 to Leipzig, where he worked until his retirement in 1934. Until 1926 in Leipzig was Director of Student Welfare. In November 1933, he was one of the signatories of the commitment of the professors at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state.

Korte was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and the German Archaeological Institute.

Alfred Korte was since 1896 with Frieda Gropius, the daughter of architect Martin Gropius married. They had three daughters and two sons, who both fell in the Second World War.

Services

Korte led, together with his brother Gustav from excavations. The brothers laid the ruined city of Gordion free in Asia Minor. In the extensive papyrus finds of the poet Menander 1905 Körte got the authoritative edition, which was overhauled after his death by new finds in part. He obtained a translation of the comedies that came out in Insel-Verlag. Körtes work to Menander is also highlighted in the obituary of Webster.

Korte was the best connoisseur of Greek comedy of his time and enriched the Realencyklopädie classical antiquity to numerous articles. He also dealt with Hellenistic poetry. Together with his friend Richard Heinze he gave in 1923 the magazine Hermes out. To the Ulrich von Wilamowitz- Moellendorff dedicated band 1932 he contributed an article character who was an excerpt from his Menander studies.