Otto Immisch

Joannes Heinrich Otto Immisch ( born June 18, 1862 in Bardo, † October 29, 1936 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German classical scholar.

Life

In Dresden Immisch visited the Cross School, in 1882 he graduated from high school. He studied classical philology at the University of Leipzig by Otto Ribbeck and received his doctorate in 1885 with a thesis De glossis lexici Hesychiani Italicis. Until his habilitation in 1889 with the writing Klaros, research on Greek foundation legends he taught at the Royal Albert Grammar School and the University. After six years, he became associate professor in 1895, followed in 1907 and received a call to Giessen in 1914, after a one-year professorship in Königsberg, a call from the Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg, which he accepted. 1924 to 1925 he was rector of the university and became professor emeritus in 1930. He was succeeded by Eduard Fraenkel.

1915 to 1927 he was chairman of the high school association ( since 1927 Honorary Chairman), who advocated the preservation of humanist schools in Germany. He therefore published many articles in the association's journal, the humanistic Gymnasium.

He was appointed a Privy Councillor in 1917 and elected a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.

Writings (selection )

• The old school and the new presence, lecture geh in Berlin 1915 Berlin Weidmann 1916
• The afterlife of antiquity. Dieterich, Leipzig 1919
• On the question of Plautine Cantica. Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1923
• Remarks on the font from the sublime. Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1925
• A Epodos of Archilochus. Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1930
• Horace's epistle about the poetry. Dieterich, Leipzig 1932