Ernst Kalinka (5 February 1865,

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– 15 June 1946,

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) was an Austrian

classical philologist Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

and

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

. He is considered to be a typical representative of the erstwhile Viennese school of classical studies, in which, the disciplines of philology,

epigraphy Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the wr ...

and archaeology were intertwined as an inseparable unity.Kalinka, Ernst
In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, , S. 57 f.

Biography

From 1884 to 1889 he studied classical philology, ancient history and classical archaeology at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...

, where his influences included

Otto Benndorf Otto Benndorf (13 September 1838 – 2 January 1907) was a German-Austrian archaeologist who was a native of Greiz, Principality of Reuss-Greiz. He was the father of physicist Hans Benndorf (1870–1953). He studied under Friedrich Gottlieb We ...

Wilhelm von Hartel Wilhelm August Ritter von Hartel (28 May 1839 – 14 January 1907) was an Austrian philologist specializing in classical studies. Biography He was born at Hof, in Moravia, and studied at the University of Vienna (1859–63). He was appointed ...

and

Karl Schenkl Karl Schenkl (Brno, 11 December 1827 Graz, 20 September 1900) was an Austrian Classics#Philology, classical philologist. Biography Schenkl studied Classics#Philology, classical philology and law from 1845 to 1849 at the University of Vienna. Afte ...

. Following study trips to Germany, France, Italy and Greece, he conducted research in

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(1892–94) in preparation for the publication of "Tituli Asiae Minoris", a project directed by the

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. In 1894 he became a member of the newly established archaeology department at

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. In 1896 he obtained his

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for classical philology at the University of Vienna, and during the following year, took part in a research trip to

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. In 1898 he was appointed secretary of the newly founded Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut (ÖAI). In 1900 he became a professor of classical philology at the

University of Czernowitz Chernivtsi National University (full name Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, uk, Чернівецький національний університет імені Юрія Федьковича) is a public university in the City o ...

, and three years later, relocated to the

University of Innsbruck The University of Innsbruck (german: Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck; la, Universitas Leopoldino Franciscea) is a public research university in Innsbruck, the capital of the Austrian federal state of Tyrol, founded on October 15, 1669. ...

, where from 1903 to 1935, he worked as a professor. In 1910/11 he served as academic rector. In 1906 he founded the journal "''Commentationes Aenipontanae''", a publication that he co-edited up until 1921.

Selected works

* ''Prolegomena zur pseudoxenophontischen Athenaion politeia'', 1896 – Introduction to the pseudo-Xenophonian constitution of the Athenians. * ''Bericht über zwei Reisen im südwestlichen Kleinasien'' (with

Rudolf Heberdey Rudolf Heberdey (10 March 1864. Ybbs an der Donau – 7 April 1936, Graz) was an Austrian classical philologist and archaeologist. Biography From 1882 he studied classical philology at the University of Vienna, where his influences were Wilhe ...

), 1897 – On two trips to southwestern Asia Minor. * ''Zur historischen topographie Lykiens'', 1900 – The historical topography of

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. * ''Zu Thukydides'', 1902 – On

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. * ''Antike Denkmäler in Bulgarien'', 1906 – Ancient monuments in Bulgaria. * ''Xenophontis qui inscribitur libellus Athēnaiōn politeia; in usum scholarum academicarum'', 1914 (edition of

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). * ''Aus der Werkstatt des Hörsaals'', 1922 – From the workshop of the auditorium. * ''Agamemnon in der Ilias'', 1943 –

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in the

Iliad The ''Iliad'' (; grc, Ἰλιάς, Iliás, ; "a poem about Ilium") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the ''Odysse ...

.Most widely held works by Ernst Kalinka
WorldCat Identities In 1927 he contributed "''

Hellenica Oxyrhynchia ''Hellenica Oxyrhynchia'' is an Ancient Greek history of classical Greece in the late 5th and early 4th centuries BCE, of which papyrus fragments were unearthed at Oxyrhynchus, in Egypt. The author, whose name is not recorded in the surviving fragm ...

''" to the

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(collection of Greco-Roman literature).

References

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