Kurt Latte
Kurt Latte ( born March 9, 1891 in Königsberg, † June 18, 1964 in Tutzing ) was a German classical scholar.
Life
The son of a physician educated at the universities of Königsberg, Bonn and Berlin. After receiving his doctorate in Königsberg in 1913 with Ludwig Deubner with a dissertation on ritual dances in ancient Greece, he began with the publication of the dictionary of Hesychius of Alexandria. After military service in World War latte was 1920-1923 Assistant at the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Münster and his habilitation in 1920 with a thesis on Greek sacred law. During this time he introduced the concept of success ethics in the context of ancient ethics. He went in 1923 as a full professor ( successor John Mewaldts ) to Greifswald in 1926 as the successor Günther Jachmann to Basel in 1931 to Göttingen (as successor Eduard Fraenkel ). Due to its classification as a Jew by the Nazis, he was forced into retirement in 1935.
Latte, who returned in 1937 by a visiting professorship in Chicago to Germany, survived the Nazi regime in Hamburg (supported by Bruno Snell ), Dusseldorf (Am Ellerforst 24) and Osterode am Harz, where it his former Greifswald colleague Konrat Ziegler had invited the him temporarily hidden. In 1945 he was able to take his Göttingen professorship again. The German Academy of Sciences in Berlin in 1947 took him on as a corresponding member. He was 1949-1956 President and Vice- President of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and Chairman of the Mommsen -Gesellschaft. In 1951 he became an honorary doctorate from the University of Heidelberg. After his retirement in 1957 he moved to Tutzing and held until his death, nor seminars on Greek law at the University of Munich.
Scientifically bar was mainly involved with the publication of Hesych and the ancient history of religion.
Writings (selection )
- Holy law. Studies on the history of religious types in Greece. Mohr, Tübingen, 1920; Reproduction Scientia Aalen 1964.
- (Ed.): Hesychii Alexandrini Lexicon. Vol 1 and 2 Munksgaard, Hauniae ( = Copenhagen) in 1953 and 1966.
- Roman religious history. Beck, Munich 1960 and reprints (Handbook of Classical Studies, Dept. 5, Part 4), ISBN 3-406-01374-0.
- Small writings on religion, law, literature and language of the Greeks and Romans. Beck, Munich 1968.
- Carl Joachim Classen ( ed.): Kurt Latte: Opuscula inedita. Along with lectures and reports of a conference on the fortieth anniversary of the death of Kurt bar. Saur, Munich 2005 ( Contributions to Archaeology, 219), ISBN 3-598-77831-7.