Friedrich Gotthilf Osann

Friedrich Gotthilf Osann ( born August 22, 1794 in Weimar, † November 30, 1858 in Gießen ) was a German classical scholar.

Life

Gottfried Osann was the fourth son of weimaranischen Government Council Friedrich Heinrich Gotthelf Osann (* 1753, † March 29, 1803 in Weimar). His mother was Caroline Amalie Friederika hoof (1766-1843), sister of Christopher William hoof. She married after the early death of his father in his second marriage on October 31, 1815 the Minister of State Christian Gottlob von Voigt. The son of Friedrich Gotthilf Osanns, Arthur Osann and the grandson Arthur Osann were Hessian state parliament.

Gottfried Osann received initial training by private tutors in Berlin and attended high school in Weimar, where he was a childhood friend of Arthur Schopenhauer. He studied philosophy at the University of Jena in 1813 and 1814 at the University of Berlin, including in August Boeckh.

Here Osann in 1816 received his doctorate of philosphy and in the same year. In 1817 he undertook an educational journey through Germany, France, England and Italy. In 1819 he was appointed Privatdozent in Berlin in 1821 and associate professor of philology at the University of Jena. On June 18, 1825 Osann professor of classical philology and archeology at the University of Giessen and on April 12, 1827 Director of the philological seminar ibid. Osann also participated in organizational tasks of the Giessen University and was 1839/40 and 1851/52 Rector of the Alma Mater.

Osann made ​​in his time, especially in the field of classical philology and archeology a name. He dealt mainly with epigraphy, Greek lexicography, grammar and the history of Greek and Roman literature. In addition to numerous others, these subjects affecting smaller writings and essays he edited several Greek and Latin writers and put in various academic writings significant contributions to the art of classical antiquity before. Even the Latin literature of the Middle Ages, he moved to the area of his research with a. Among the numerous contributions to the different times scientific journals especially his 1857 published articles in the Journal of Classical Studies are emphasized.

Writings (selection )

  • Midas. Darmstadt 1830
  • Commentatio grammatica de pronominis tertiae personae is ea, id formis. Göttingen 1814
  • Sylloge inscriptionum antiquarum Graecarum et Latinarum. Darmstadt 1822-1834, 10 books
  • Auctarium lexicorum Graecorum. Darmstadt 1824
  • Contributions to Greek and Roman literature history. Darmstadt 1834, 1839 2 vols
  • Vitalis Blesensis: Amphitryon et Aulularia. Darmstadt 1836
  • Stuart, James; Revett, Nicholas: The antiquities of Athens: from the English trans. after the London ed from 1762 to 1787 and enriched with some of its own and all the accessories of the new ed of 1825. Darmstadt 1825
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