Karl Friedrich Hermann
Karl Friedrich Hermann ( * August 4, 1804 in Frankfurt am Main, † December 31, 1855 in Göttingen ) was a German classical scholar.
Karl Friedrich Hermann, the son of the publisher Johann Christian Hermann (1750-1827), studied in Heidelberg and Leipzig under Frederick Creuzer, Gottfried Hermann and Friedrich August Wilhelm Spohn, received his doctorate in 1824, made a monthly trip to Austria and Italy, in 1826 his habilitation in Heidelberg, in 1832 full professor at the University of Marburg ( 1837/38 and 1840/41 and its rector ), in 1842 as successor to Karl Otfried Müller professor of philology and archeology, as well as director of the philological and educational institute in Göttingen where he died on December 31, 1855
Hermann has studied almost every field of archeology; with untiring zeal, he worked as a teacher. His main work is the
- Textbook of Greek antiquities. (many last edition 1913).
- Worship Antiquities, 1846; 2nd edition of Stark, 1857; Part 3:
- Private Antiquities, 1852; 2nd edition of Stark, 1870), a monument to the most comprehensive erudition and thorough research ( one led by Hugo Blümner and Wilhelm Dittenberger revised edition of the work in 4 volumes published since 1882). Also, are particularly noteworthy:
- History and System of the Platonic philosophy (Heidelberg 1839, Vol 1; unfinished, reprint New York: Arno Press, 1976 );, edited after his death by Karl Gustav Schmidt
- Cultural history of the Greeks and Romans (Göttingen 1857-58, 2 vols ); processing the Charicles by Wilhelm Adolf Becker for the 2nd edition ( Leipzig, 1854);
- The excellent edition of Lucian's De historia conscribenda (Frankfurt 1828) as well as the text of Plato reviews (Leipzig 1851-53 ), Persius and Juvenal of (1854 ).
This is followed by a lot lined up for the part of very important papers on the Greek antiquities, mythology and history of ancient literature, history, art, archeology, ancient philosophy, and to critique and explanation of ancient writers. Only a small part of it is from him united in Collected Essays (Göttingen, 1849).