Johannes Vahlen
John Vahlen ( born September 27, 1830 in Bonn, † November 30, 1911 in Berlin) was a German philologist Classic.
Life
Vahlen studied classical philology at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. With a dissertation on Quintus Ennius he received his doctorate in 1852, Dr. phil. His doctor father was Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl.
Habilitation since 1854, Vahlen was in November 1856 ao Professor at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University in Breslau. In April 1858 he became full professor at the Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg and already one semester later at the University of Vienna. After 16 years, he left Vienna and went in 1874 to the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin. As the successor to main Moriz he led with Adolf Kirchhoff the Philological Seminar. In the academic year 1886/87 he was rector of the university. From 1902 headed Vahlen the seminar alone until 1906, he relinquished the lead to Ulrich von Wilamowitz - Moellendorff, Hermann Diels and Eduard Norden. Until 1907 held Vahlen lectures.
Vahlen was a member from 1862 to the Vienna Academy of Sciences, he was from 1869 to 1874 secretary of the philosophical- historical class. In 1874 he also became a member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, from 1893 until his death in 1911, again as a Secretary of the philosophical- historical class.
In his publications to Vahlen employed, inter alia, with early Roman poetry ( he gave the fragments of Ennius and Naevius out ) and with the Poetics of Aristotle.
Vahlens younger brother was the publisher Franz Vahlen, his sons, the mathematician Theodor Vahlen and pharmacologist Ernst Vahlen.
His students included the philologists Oskar Froehde, Alois Gold Bacher, Paul Graf Funder, Rudolf Helm, Wilhelm Carl Heraeus, Carl Holzinger, Bernhard Kübler, Otto Plasberg, Richard Reitz Stone, Max Rothstein, Max Ruben son, Rudolf Sydow, Emil Thomas and Friedrich Vollmer.
John Vahlens library was acquired in 1913 by the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, as early as 1907 by Wilhelm Dittenberger. Together, both libraries as Dittenberger - Vahlen Collection of Classical Texts a stock of over 15,000 books and over 17,000 reprints. With the financial support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the University began in 2000 with the digitization of this stock.