Edmund Hauler

Edmund Hauler ( born November 17 1859 in Ofen (Buda ); † April 1, 1941 in Vienna ) was an Austrian classical philologist.

Life

Edmund Hauler, son of Johann Hauler high school teacher, graduated from the University of Vienna as his father Classical Philology. Among his most important teachers was Wilhelm von Hartel. His doctorate with a thesis Terentiana: Quaestiones cum specimine lexici in 1882 sub auspiciis Imperatoris, ie in the presence of the Emperor Franz Joseph I, by which he was the first student of a philosophical school in Austria - Hungary. After the exam, the Hauler graduated two years later, he made 1884/1885 be year of probation at the Academic Gymnasium in Vienna from. Then he deepened his studies in 1885 at Hermann and Franz Usener Bücheler in Bonn and undertook 1885-1887 educational trips to France, England, Switzerland and Italy. In Vienna he worked from 1890 to 1893 as a high school teacher and then went as a lecturer at the local university, first as a lecturer, since 1896 as an associate and since 1899 as a full professor. In the academic year 1914/1915 he was dean of the faculty of the University Philososphischen. In 1931 he retired. Hauler was a member of the Vienna Academic fraternity Moldavia.

Services

Hauler collected on study trips manuscripts and discovered many valuable fragments which were for the critical edition of several authors of importance. So he published in 1886 in the meeting reports of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna palimpsest 18 columns with fragments from the histories of Sallust, of which only fragments are known to date; he deciphered a vulgar Latin translation of Didascalia apostolorum and found new fragments of the poet Menander and Sotades.

His biggest companies was the reorganization and edition of the letters Frontos according to a few decades earlier Palimpsestseiten discovered in the Vatican and Ambrosian Library (in Milan ), the 1897 he instructed the Prussian Academy of Sciences. Hauler has published over 50 essays on the topic, but the issue was unable to complete before his death. It was completed by Rudolf Hanslik.

Hauler dealt with the Latin of Late Antiquity ( Patristics ) to Neulatein. He represented at the Vienna Academy since 1907, the thesaurus Commission and was from 1925 until his death chairman of the Vienna Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (CSEL ). He was co-editor of the series Dissertationes philologae Vindobonenses and since 1899 editor of the magazines Vienna Studies and Journal of the Austrian schools.