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Uvo Hölscher
Uvo Hölscher (8 March 1914 - 31 December 1996) was a German classical philologist. Life Uvo Hölscher was born, the younger of his parents' two recorded sons, in Halle. His father, Gustav Hölscher was a theologian. His mother, born Borghild Gjessing, was the daughter of a school director from Oslo. His grandfather, Wilhelm Hölscher, was also a theologian. Uvo Hölscher attended secondary schools in Marburg and Bonn. He moved on to Tübingen and Munich universities where he studied natural sciences and cultural sciences, then progressing to Frankfurt where he studied classical philology, enthused in particular by the lecturer Karl Reinhardt. It was at Reinhardt's regular Saturday morning gatherings that he met Max Kommerell and his student contemporary Dorothea Lohmeyer, whom in 1940 he married. In 1937 he received his doctorate for a dissertation on "The Philosophy of Empedocles", supervised for the work by Reinhardt. The next day he was conscripted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halle (Saale)
Halle (Saale), or simply Halle (; from the 15th to the 17th century: ''Hall in Sachsen''; until the beginning of the 20th century: ''Halle an der Saale'' ; from 1965 to 1995: ''Halle/Saale'') is the largest city of the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Saxony-Anhalt, the fifth most populous city in the area of former East Germany after (East Berlin, East) Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz, as well as the List of cities in Germany by population, 31st largest city of Germany, and with around 239,000 inhabitants, it is slightly more populous than the state capital of Magdeburg. Together with Leipzig, the largest city of Saxony, Halle forms the polycentric Leipzig-Halle conurbation. Between the two cities, in Schkeuditz, lies Leipzig/Halle Airport, Leipzig/Halle International Airport. The Leipzig-Halle conurbation is at the heart of the larger Central German Metropolitan Region. Halle lies in the south of Saxony-Anhalt, in the Leipzig Bay, the southernmost part of the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
