Henri Weil

Henri Weil, born as Heinrich Weil ( born August 27, 1818 in Frankfurt am Main, † November 5, 1909 in Paris) was a German - French classical scholar and literary scholar of Jewish descent.

Life

Because studied at the universities of Bonn, Berlin and Leipzig. He then traveled to France to continue his studies at the Sorbonne in Paris. There he gained his doctorate in 1845. Already in 1840 he was inducted into the Freemasons of the Frankfurt Masonic Lodge to the rising dawn.

And having been a lecturer at the Universities of Strasbourg and Besancon. In Besançon, he was later appointed Professor and in 1872 an honorary professor at the Philological Faculty. In 1876 he returned to Paris, and was professor of Greek literature at the École normale supérieure and the École pratique des hautes études.

In 1882, Weil became a full member of the French Académie des Sciences in Paris. From March 12 1896 to 16 July 1908, he was also a corresponding member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin, and then from September 25, 1908 the foreign member.