Emil Baehrens
Paul Heinrich Emil Baehrens (* September 24 1848 in Bayenthal near Cologne, † September 26, 1888 in Groningen ) was a German classical scholar.
Life
Emil Baehrens was the son of the merchant Paul Baehrens and his wife Maria nee Hagen. After his father's death ( 1850) the mother married the Arz GA Hesse, Emil Baehrens a second father. Originally it was to be a businessman, but his inclination according visited Baehrens the Friedrich- Wilhelm- Gymnasium in Cologne and started after the matriculation examination in 1867 his studies in classical philology at the University of Bonn. Among his academic teachers were Jacob Bernays, Franz Bücheler, Friedrich Heimsoeth, August Reifferscheid, Franz Ritter and Anton Springer. Most influenced him Lucian Müller, in which he visited metric and palaeography exercises, as well as Otto Jahn and Hermann Usener who received him in 1868 in the Philological Seminar. 1870 was Baehrens the senior teacher exam and became a Dr. phil. doctorate. From 1871 to 1872, he furthered his studies at the University of Leipzig in the text critic Friedrich Ritschl. He then undertook his first educational trip, he saw on the ancient manuscripts in Munich, Milan, Bologna, Pisa, Venice, Florence, Lucca, Siena, Rome and Naples. In Rome he stayed for six months at the Archaeological Institute, and he established many contacts.
After his return in the autumn of 1873, Baehrens habilitated in Jena with the De Sulpiciae quae vocatur satira, Commentatio philo logica. In the following years he lectured made further explorations: From January to April 1874, he visited the libraries of Louvain, Brussels and Paris from March to August 1875 Paris, London and Oxford. In the summer semester 1877 he was promoted to associate professor, but was followed in the same year a reputation as a full professor at the University of Groningen. Over the next eleven years, he has held numerous lectures and visited again the library in London. In Groningen he married the daughter of his colleague Willem Hecker, Professor of History. On September 26, Baehrens succumbed after 26 days a Hirnabzess. One of his three surviving children was the classic philologist Wilhelm Baehrens.
Emil Baehrens delivered as the fruit of his research important editions of various Latin authors, including Catullus ( Analecta Catulliana a corollary, Jena, 1874. Edition on Teubner, Leipzig, 1876. Commentary in Teubner, 1885), the Panegyrici Latini (Leipzig 1874), Valerius Flaccus ( C. Valeri Flacci Setini Balbi Argonauticon libri octo, Leipzig 1875), Publius Papinius Statius ( Silvae, Leipzig 1876), Tibullus ( Tibullische leaves, Jena, 1876. Edition on Teubner, Leipzig, 1878 ), Propertius (Edition in Teubner, Leipzig, 1880), Horace ( Lectiones Horatianae, Groningen 1880), Tacitus ( Dialogus de oratoribus, Leipzig 1881), Minucius Felix ( Octavius Edition on Teubner, Leipzig 1886).
His biggest companies was the issue poetae latini minores, which appeared from 1879 to 1883 in five volumes with the Teubner Verlag. It was re-edited from 1910 to 1923 by Friedrich Karl Vollmer. The first volume appeared in 1930 in a revised edition of Willy Morel. As a continuation of the collection Baehrens published in 1886 in the Teubner - Verlag Fragmenta poetarum Romanorum, which today poetarum by the Fragmenta Latinorum by Willy Morel, Karl Buchner and Jürgen Blänsdorf (Berlin ³ 1995) is superseded.