Hartmut Erbse

Hartmut pea ( born November 23, 1915 in Rudolstadt; † 7 July 2004 in Trossingen ) was a German philologist Classic, the professor at the Universities of Hamburg ( 1954-1965 ), Tübingen ( 1965-1968 ) and Bonn ( 1968-1984 ) worked.

Life

The son of a doctor from Thuringia studied classical philology in Hamburg, where he in 1941 Dr. phil. received his doctorate. In 1948 he qualified as a Hellenist with a study on the Atticist lexicons. In the same year he received a first lectureship in Hamburg. There he was in 1954 appointed associate professor and finally appointed a full professor six years later. In 1965 he followed a call to Tübingen to the chair of Greek philology and in 1968 a further appointment at the University of Bonn, where he studied until shortly before his death and taught (emeritus 1984). In 2003 he moved to Trossingen to his son.

His researches were devoted to textual criticism and copywriting Greek fragments and scholia, the understanding of Homer, Herodotus and Thucydides. Pea served as associate editor of the prestigious journals Glotta and Hermes and was in 1965 alongside Carl Andresen, Olof Gigon, Karl Schefold, Karl Friedrich Ernst Stroheker and tin to the editors of the lexicon of the Old World (LAW). Together with Kurt Latte he published the lexicons graeca minora.

Hartmut pea was a corresponding member of the British Academy and the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen.

Works (selection)

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