Emil Hübner

Ernst Willibald Emil Hübner ( * July 7, 1834 in Dusseldorf, † February 21, 1901 in Berlin) was a German classical scholar and epigraphists.

Life

Emil Hübner was the son of the painter and professor at the Dresden Academy of Art Julius Hübner and his wife Pauline Bendemann ( a sister of the painter Eduard Bendemann ). His youngest brother, Eduard (1842-1918) studied painting, his brother Hans Hübner (1837-1884) later became Professor of Chemistry in Göttingen. Even Emil Hübner's sons Henry (1869-1945) and Ulrich (1872-1932) was a painter, his third son Rudolf (1864-1945) historian of law. Huebner's wife, Marie (1839-1896) was a daughter of the historian Johann Gustav Droysen.

Emil Hübner attended high school in Dresden and studied in Berlin and Bonn since 1851. He received his doctorate in 1854 at Friedrich Ritschl at Bonn with a dissertation on Quaestiones onomatologicae Latinae and habilitated in 1859 in Berlin with the De senatus populique Romani actis. He led epigraphic research trips through Italy, Spain and Portugal and in 1863 associate, in 1870 a full professor of classical philology at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin.

Services

Hübner was particularly active in the field of Latin epigraphy. He was one of the main collaborators Theodor Mommsen at Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum and gave its volumes 2 out with the inscriptions of the Hispanic Peninsula (1869, with a Supplement 1892), and 7 with the inscriptions of Britain (1873 ), plus a special edition with illustrations (1885 ). He was also editor of the magazine Hermes, but had to resign from this function in 1881 after a dispute with Mommsen and Ulrich von Wilamowitz- Moellendorff.

Writings

• Quaestiones onomatologicae Latinae. Phil Diss Bonn 1854.
• De senatus populique Romani actis. Teubner, Leipzig 1859 ( habilitation thesis ).
• Inscriptiones Hispaniae Latinae. Reimer, Berlin 1869; Reproduction de Gruyter, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-11-003187-6 ( Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, 2). Supplementum. 1892; Reprint 1962.
• Inscriptiones Hispaniae christianae. 2 vols. 1871-1900; Reprint Olms, Hildesheim, 1975, ISBN 3-487-05483-3.
• Inscriptiones Britanniae Latinae. Reimer, Berlin 1873; Reprint 1996 ISBN 3-11-003194-9 ( Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, 7).
• Plan to lectures on the history of classical philology and Encyclopedia. Weidmann, Berlin 1876; 2nd edition udT: Bibliography of classical Alterthumswissenschaft. Plan to lectures on the history of classical philology and Encyclopedia. Hertz, Berlin 1889; Reprint Olms, Hildesheim 1973, ISBN 3-487-04737-3.
• Statues galläkischer warrior in Portugal and Galicia. In: Archaeological newspaper, Vol 19 (1861 ), No. 154, 185-195 Sp.
• The Roman Army in Britain. In: Hermes 16, 1881, pp. 513-584.
• Exempla scripturae epigraphicae Latinae. A Caesar dictatoris morte ad aetatem Justinian. Berlin 1885; Reprint 1979, ISBN 3-11-004139-1 ( Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, Auctarium ).
• Correspondencia epistolary entre Emilio Martins Sarmento e Hübner: Archeology e Epigrafia; From 1879 to 1899. Coligida e antoada por Mário Cardozo. Soc. Martins Sarmento, Guimarães 1947.