Paul Wendland

Paul Wendland ( born August 17, 1864 in Hohenstein, East Prussia, † September 10, 1915 in Göttingen ) was a German classical scholar.

Life

Johann Theodor Paul Wendland, son of a clergyman, studied from 1883 until his doctorate in 1886 in Bonn. Especially Usener Hermann and Hermann Diels, received his doctorate in the Wendland, had influence on him. From 1889 to 1902 worked as a school teacher in Wendland Berlin in 1889 as an assistant teacher at the Leibniz -Gymnasium, then as an assistant teacher, from 1891 as a regular teacher at the high school Köllnischen. In 1902 he was appointed Full Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Kiel (without Habilitation ). In 1906 he moved to the University of Wroclaw. His position in life, he reached in 1909 as a full professor in Göttingen. In 1914 he was inducted into the religion Scientific Commission of the Royal Society of Sciences and as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

Wendland was married to Anna Eickenloff.

Services

Wendland's main field of research was the Hellenistic world at the time of the New Testament. It was his interest especially Philo of Alexandria. He was devoted to the examination and exploration of his writings, which he published along with super sunt Leopold Cohn under the name Philonis operae quae. This issue is still considered a standard edition of the work. He was able also to find more evidence for the factuality of the New Testament (eg the Verspottungsszene in Mark 15.16-20 to determine when custom of Roman legionnaires, by lot a king Saturnalia ).