Wilhelm von Hartel

Wilhelm August Ritter von Hartel ( born May 28, 1839 in the yard ( Moravia ), † 14 January 1907 in Vienna, in his publications, the Latinized form of the name Guilelmus de Hartel is often used ) was an Austrian classical philologist and politician.

Hartel studied from 1859 to 1863 in Vienna and received his PhD in 1864 Dr. phil. During his studies he was in 1860 one of the founders of the fraternity Silesia Vienna. Since 1869, he was Associate, since 1872 Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Vienna. 1890/91 he was rector of the University of Vienna. Since 1891 Hartel was director of the Vienna Court Library. Also in 1891 he became an honorary citizen of his home town farm in Moravia. 1900-1905 Hartel was Minister of Culture and Education; lasting merit he acquired primarily through the reorganization of the lessons for girls ( creation of the six-class girl Lyceum ). As Minister Hartel was considered a " liberal " politician who, among other things for the view expressed by the Vienna Secession modern art. The Viennese writer Karl Kraus fought him in his journal The Torch however, as " reactionary philologist " and " University spoiler ". In 1882 he was knighted ( knighthood ).

As a philologist to Hartel special merit acquired by critical scientific editions of classical texts, for example as part of the corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (CSEL ). In 1879 he founded with Charles Schenkl the still existing today altphilologische magazine Wiener Studien. The Göttingen Society of Sciences in 1901 appointed him an honorary member.