Adolf Kiessling (15 February 1837 – 3 May 1893) was a German
philologist born in
Culm (present-day
Chełmno,
Poland). He was a specialist in the field of
Roman literature.
[Biography of Kiessling]
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Biography
He obtained his classical education at the
University of Bonn as a student of
Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker
Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (4 November 1784 – 17 December 1868) was a German classical philologist and archaeologist.
Biography
Welcker was born at Grünberg, Hesse-Darmstadt. Having studied classical philology at the University of Giessen ...
,
Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl
Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl (6 April 1806 – 9 November 1876) was a German scholar best known for his studies of Plautus.
Biography
Ritschl was born in Großvargula, in present-day Thuringia. His family, in which culture and poverty were hereditar ...
,
Franz Bücheler
Franz Bücheler (3 June 18373 May 1908) was a German classical scholar, was born in Rheinberg, and educated at Bonn, where he was a student of Friedrich Ritschl (1806–1876).
Biography
In 1856 Bücheler graduated from the University of Bonn wit ...
and
Otto Jahn. In 1863, he became a professor of
classical philology at the
University of Basel, and in 1869 began teaching classes at the ''
Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums'' in
Hamburg. In 1872 he relocated to the
University of Greifswald, where from a scientific standpoint, he spent the most important years of his life. In 1889 he became successor to
Friedrich Leo
Friedrich Leo (July 10, 1851 – January 15, 1914) was a German classical philologist born in Regenwalde, in the then- province of Pomerania (present-day Resko, Poland).
Academic career
From 1868 he was a student at the University of Göttinge ...
(1851–1914) at the
University of Strasbourg.
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Works
Kiessling's research largely dealt with critiques and commentaries of ancient classical texts. His best written effort being an extensive commentary on the works of Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his ' ...
, a work that appeared in three volumes from 1884 to 1889, and after Kiessling's death, was edited by Richard Heinze
Richard Heinze (1867 – 1929) was a German classical philologist. He was a younger brother to politician Rudolf Heinze (1865–1928).
Heinze was born on 11 August 1867 in Naumburg, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia.
He studied classical ph ...
(1867-1929).
* "Quintus Horatius Flaccus ad lectiones probatiores diligenter emendatus, et interpunctione nova saepius illustratus"
** Book I: "Oden und Epoden"
** Book II: "Satiren"
** Book III: "Briefe".WorldCat Title
Q. Horatius Flaccus
He also explained and critiqued the writings of the historian
Ammianus Marcellinus, the philosopher
Seneca, the playwright
Plautus and the poets
Catullus and
Propertius
Sextus Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet of the Augustan age. He was born around 50–45 BC in Assisium and died shortly after 15 BC.
Propertius' surviving work comprises four books of ''Elegies'' ('). He was a friend of the poets Gallus a ...
.
[
Other noted published works by Kiessling include:
* ''Philologische Untersuchungen'' (Philological studies, with Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff).
* "Dionysi Halicarnasensis Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt", 1867.
* ''Aristoteles Schrift vom Staatswesen der Athener'', (German translation with Georg Kaibel) 1891.
]
References
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WorldCat Identities
(list of publications)
German philologists
University of Greifswald faculty
University of Göttingen faculty
1837 births
1893 deaths
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