Theodor Gomperz

Theodor Gomperzes ( born March 29, 1832 in Brno (Brünn), then Moravia; † August 29, 1912 in Baden bei Wien, Lower Austria ) was an Austrian philosopher and classical philologist.

Life

Born into an assimilated Jewish merchant family of scholars and was the son of Joshua Philipp Feibelman Gomperzes (1782-1857) and Henriette Gomperzes, born Auspitz ( 1792-1881 ). Theodor Gomperzes was the brother of Josephine Gomperzes, Josephine married name of Wertheimstein (1820-1894), the industrialist Max von Gomperzes (1822-1913) and Julius von Gomperzes (1823-1909) and Sophie Gomperzes, nee Sophie Todesco (1825 - 1895).

From his marriage with Elise Sichrovsky (1848-1929), the philosopher Heinrich Gomperzes (1873-1942), and the sculptor and writer Bettina Gomperzes emerged ( 1879-1948 ).

Theodor Gomperzes 1847-1849 studied at the Philosophical College in Brno and then in Vienna with Hermann Bonitz. Gomperzes devoted himself as a private scholar further studies and qualified as a professor without a doctorate degree in 1867. In 1873 he became Professor of Classical Philology in Vienna. 1896 to 1909 he published his three-volume magnum opus Greek thinkers. In 1900 he became Professor Emeritus; and was succeeded by Emil Szanto.

He is buried in an honorary grave dedicated to the Döblinger Cemetery (Group 17, Number 6) in Vienna. In 1927 in Vienna Ottakring ( 16th district ) was named the Gomperzgasse after him.

Works

  • Demosthenes the Statesman (1864 )
  • Dream Interpretation and sorcery (1866 )
  • Herculanische studies (1865-1866)
  • Contributions to criticism and explanation Greek writers ( 7 volumes, 1875-1900 )
  • The fracture gap of the Greek tragedians and Cobets latest critical manner (1878 )
  • Herodoteische studies (1883 )
  • A previously unbekannies Greek writing system (1884 )
  • On the conclusion of Herodotus historical work (1886 )
  • For Heraclitus' doctrine and the remains of his work (1887 )
  • For Aristotle Poetics ( 2 parts, 1888-1896 )
  • About the Characters of Theophrastus (1888 )
  • Gleanings to the fragments of the Greek tragedians (1888 )
  • The Apology of the healing arts (1890)
  • Philodemus and the writings of the astheiischen herculanischen Library (1891 )
  • The writing of the polity of the Athenians (1891 )
  • The recently discovered remains of a Platonic Phaedon containing papyrus roll (1892 )
  • From Hecale of Callimachus (1893 )
  • Greek thinkers. A History of Ancient Philosophy (1896-1909) Volume 1, Greek natural philosophers and sophists, 1896
  • Volume 2, Socrates and Plato, 1902
  • Volume 3, Aristotle and his successors, by Veit, Leipzig 1909

Honors

  • Medal on his 60th birthday in 1892. Subsequently, the bust Gomperzes, on the back as allegories for archeology, philology and philosophy coastal landscape with Vesuvius, a young man with pickaxe and two reading girls.
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