Maximilian Friedrich Julius Consbruch (20 June 1866 – 14 August 1927) was a German

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and gymnasium principal, known for his studies of

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and the work of Hephaestion. Consbruch was the son of a German-speaking Prussian

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and born in Elbing,

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(present-day

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). He studied classical philology and

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at the Day Gymnasium in Elbing, then until 1884 in

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, then until 1885 in Breslau. He spent time assigned to the

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, working on Greek etymology and spending some months in Italy. Afterwards he lived in Halle (Saale) and taught there from 1892-1894 at the Latin High School of the Francke Foundation, then from 1894-1909 at the local City Gymnasium, and from 1902-1909 he was simultaneously an assistant lecturer in philology at the

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. From 1909-1911 he was director of the Carl-Frederick-Gymnasium Eisenach, now the Martin-Luther-Gymnasium Eisenach. From 1911-1914 he was director of the Gymnasium of Saint Mary Magdalene Gymnasium Breslau, a German-language school that is now a Polish

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. His subsequent positions were as a teacher operating in the area of ancient philological research and as a writer of articles for Pauly's '' Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft''.

Works

*''De Hephaestioneis qui circumferuntur peri poiēmatos commentariis'', Dissertation, Breslau 1889 *''De veterum peri poiēmatos doctrina: acc. commentarii qui circumferuntur peri poiēmatos'', Breslau 1890 *''Hephaestionis enchiridion'', Leipzig 1906 *''Deutsche Lyrik des 19. Jahrhunderts'', Leipzig 1909 1866 births 1927 deaths German classical scholars People from Elbląg People from West Prussia {{Germany-linguist-stub