Hans Herter (8 June 1899 – 7 November 1984) was a German

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 Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and ot ...

who was for many years Director of the Rheinischen Museum für Philologie,

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...

. His main interests lay in the works of

Thucydides Thucydides (; grc, , }; BC) was an Athenian historian and general. His '' History of the Peloponnesian War'' recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of " scienti ...

and

Plato Plato ( ; grc-gre, Πλάτων ; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution ...

. Among his prominent students is Heinz-Günther Nesselrath.

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*Rainer Lengeler, Ernst Vogt and Heinz Gerd Ingenkamp, eds. ''In memoriam Hans Herter. Reden gehalten am 3. Mai 1985 bei der Gedenkfeier der Philosophischen Fakultät der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn'', Bonn 1986. * Carl Werner Müller. "Nachruf auf Hans Herter", in: ''Rheinisches Museum für Philologie'' 128, (1985:3-4). * Ernst Vogt: ''Bibliographie Hans Herter. Zum 65. Geburtstag am 8. Juni 1964'', Bonn 1964. German philologists Hellenists 1899 births 1984 deaths 20th-century philologists {{Germany-philosopher-stub