Ludwig Preller

Ludwig Preller ( born September 15, 1809 in Hamburg, † June 21, 1861 in Weimar ) was a German classical scholar and scientist of antiquity.

After attending school in Johanneum in Hamburg and Lübeck Katharineum Preller studied from 1828 in Leipzig, Berlin and Göttingen philology and initially also theology, among others, Gottfried Hermann, August Boeckh and Karl Otfried Müller. In 1832 he received his doctorate at Müller at Göttingen with a thesis on Aeschylus. After a time as a private tutor in Hamburg, he was from 1833 professor at the University of Kiel.

1838 Preller became professor of philology at the University of Dorpat, of which due to a conflict between German professors and the Russian government, he resigned in 1843 again. He spent some time in Italy before moving in 1844 to Jena, where he lectured and 1846 received the title of professor. In 1847 he became head ( head librarian ) of the Ducal Library in Weimar, now the Duchess Anna Amalia Library. In 1852 he made ​​an extensive trip to Greece.

Preller was a member of many scientific academies and societies. He wrote several books on the history of the ancient world and was moreover in general to Gruber's Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts and Pauly Realencyclopädie of classical archeology. His Greek Mythology appeared in three editions, their real importance, however, she obtained only in the processing of Carl Robert from 1884.

In Weimar, he was a member of the Masonic Lodge Anna Amalia of the three roses.

Writings

• Demeter and Persephone. One cycle of mythological studies. , 1837.
• With Heinrich Ritter: Historia Philosophiae et Graecae Romanae ex fontium locis Contexta. In 1838.
• Polemonis Periegetae fragmentary. Leipzig 1838.
• The regions of the city of Rome. Jena 1846.
• Carl Otto von Madai in memory of him for his friends. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1850.
• Greek mythology. 2 vols. Weidmann, Berlin, 1854.
• Roman mythology. In 1858.