Ivo Bruns
Ivo Bruns ( born May 20, 1853 in Halle an der Saale, † May 16, 1901 in Kiel ) was a German classical scholar.
Life
Ivo Bruns came from an old Holstein family of scholars. His father was the lawyer Karl Georg Bruns (1816-1880), who (since 1851), Tübingen (since 1859) and Berlin has been a professor at the universities of Halle ( since 1861 ). Ivo Bruns studied classical philology, archeology, philosophy and history, first in Berlin with Ernst Curtius, Johann Gustav Droysen, Moriz Haupt, Adolf Kirchhoff and Eduard Zeller, then in Bonn Jacob Bernays, Franz Bücheler, Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz, Heinrich von Sybel and Hermann Usener. In 1877 he was compositione with the thesis De legum Platonicarum quaestiones ( "Investigations on the structure of Plato's Laws " ) doctorate.
After studying Bruns worked from 1878 to 1880 in the Paris library, where he gathered material for his research. It dealt mainly with the handwritten comments on Aristotle. He continued his research on Plato's treatise on the laws. After his return, he reached his habilitation with Scripture Plato's Laws, before and after they are issued by Philip of Opus (Weimar 1880), which was well received by the experts at the University of Göttingen. In 1884 he was appointed extraordinary professor.
Just two years later joined Brunswick as an adjunct professor at the University of Kiel, where he was in 1890 appointed professor. In 1897 he refused a professorship at the University of Giessen.
Ivo Bruns appeared in various fields of classical philology in his research. He worked intensively with content, tradition and reception of Platonic, Aristotelian and Epicurean philosophy. His main work is the monograph The literary portrait of the Greeks in the fifth and fourth centuries (Berlin 1896; unaltered reprint 1961 of the Scientific Book Company, Darmstadt and the publisher Olms, Hildesheim ), with the younger of the brothers font The figure in the history of the Old. Studies on the technique of ancient historiography related (Berlin 1898).