Ludwig Radermacher
Ludwig Radermacher ( born October 7, 1867 in Siegburg, † June 28, 1952 in Vienna ) was an Austrian classical scholar who was a professor at the universities of Greifswald ( 1903-1906 ), Münster ( 1906-1909 ) and Vienna ( 1909-1938 ) worked.
Life
Ludwig Radermacher was the son of Peter Radermacher, a teacher at the teacher training college, and Katharina (nee Mohr ) and the Catholic denomination. After visiting the Progymnasium in Siegburg (1877-1884) Radermacher went to the Apostle School in Cologne. After leaving examination ( 1886), he studied at the University of Bonn first medicine, then Classical Philology and German. His most influential teachers were the German scholar Wilhelm Wilmann and the representatives of the Bonn school of classical philology, Franz and Hermann Bücheler Usener. In addition, Radermacher was influenced by the writings of the classical scholar Erwin Rohde Heidelberg. 1891 Radermacher received his doctorate with a thesis Observationes in Euripidem miscellae. A year later, he completed the state exam for teachers at secondary schools.
After studying Radermacher taught first as a high school teacher in Prüm. As a student, Hermann Usener had him taken to his editorial projects of small writings of Dionysius of Halicarnassus. 1895 returned Radermacher as an assistant at the University of Bonn back here and habilitated in 1897. Having rejected a professorship at the University of Czernowitz, he went to the summer semester 1903 as an associate professor at the University of Greifswald. Here he joined with the ancient historian Otto Seeck in contact, whose daughter he married Louise Ottilie 1904. In the autumn of 1906 Radermacher and his family moved to Münster, where he became an extraordinary professor at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität. He received in 1909 at the University of Vienna, where he became the successor of Theodor Gomperzes Professor of Classical Philology His position in life.
In Vienna Radermacher worked until his death. He was inducted in 1914 as a correspondent, in 1915 as a full member of the Academy of Sciences, where he served from 1918 to 1929 and as Secretary from 1929 to 1933 as general secretary. Among his colleagues at the Philological Seminar included Hans von Arnim, Edmund Hauler, Heinrich Schenkl, Karl Mras and John Mewaldt. End of September 1936 Radermacher was treated at the age of 69 years into retirement, though he had not yet reached the Emeritierungsalter. His body was removed for financial reasons. Two semesters taught Radermacher continue as an honorary professor and then retired into private life. In the last years of his life he devoted himself entirely to his research.
How it corresponded to the orientation of the Bonner School, Radermacher worked on the basis of textual criticism. He created the basic expenses rhetorician Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Demetrius of Phalerum and Quintilian. With profound knowledge of the language in Greek and Latin, he delivered explanatory contributions to ancient poetry and wrote pamphlets on the Greek vernacular and Koine, which are used to today. His parallel considerations of ancient myth and Christian legend, (in conjunction with the folklore ) was a pioneering research for the myths of the 20th century.
Radermacher's merits were with the honorary doctorate by the University of Glasgow ( Dr. of Laws 1932) and the University of Athens ( Dr. phil. 1937) excellent.