Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen
Friedrich Freiherr Hiller von Gaertringen ( born August 3, 1864 in Berlin, † October 25, 1947 in Thurnau, Bavaria) was a German archaeologist and epigraphists.
Life
The son of a Prussian officer studied in Tübingen and Berlin (with Theodor Mommsen ) Ancient History. After receiving his doctorate in 1886, he went to further studies to Göttingen. He later married (1905 ) the eldest daughter of his local teacher Ulrich von Wilamowitz- Moellendorff, Dorothea ( 1879-1972 ). 1890 Hiller traveled to Greece and Asia Minor, where he participated in the excavations at Magnesia on the Meander. In 1892 he was appointed a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute. From 1893 he worked on mediation Mommsen to the Inscriptiones Graecae, the corpus of Greek inscriptions, with, from 1904 as a civil servant of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. From 1917 to 1933 he was Honorary Professor of Greek epigraphy at the University of Berlin. In 1943, he lost in a bombing his library and his working material.
Hiller of Gaertringen was the most productive employees Inscriptiones Graecae. A total of nine ( sub) volumes of this inscription work he published 1895-1939, most of which are not yet replaced. He also got the new edition of the begun by William Dittenberger collection selection Sylloge inscriptionum Graecarum and edited the inscriptions from Priene. From 1896 to 1902 led Hiller, strongly supported by the geodesics Paul Wilski, at its own expense excavations at Ancient Thira by.
Writings
- Inscriptiones Graecae I ( 2nd edition). Inscriptiones Atticae Euclidis anno anteriores. In 1924.
- IV, 1 ( 2nd edition). Inscriptiones Epidauri. In 1929.
- V, 2 Inscriptiones Arcadiae. In 1913.
- XI, 3 Inscriptiones Deli. Tabulae. , 1927.
- XII, 2 Inscriptiones rhodium, Chalces, Carpathi cum Saro, Casi. In 1895.
- XII, 3 Inscriptiones Symes ... 1898. Supplementum. In 1904.
- XII, 5 Inscriptiones Cycladum. 1903, 1909.
- XII, Supplementum. , 1939.