Otto Crusius (20 December 1857 – 29 December 1918) was a

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classical scholar. He was born in

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and died in

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. In his youth he was a student of Franz Ahrens at the Lyceum in Hanover, afterwards studying

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at the

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(1875–79). At Leipzig his influences included Otto Ribbeck and Rudolf Hildebrand. He earned his habilitation in 1883 and three years later was a professor at the

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, succeeding Erwin Rohde. Later on, he worked as a

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at the

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(from 1898) and at

(from 1903). In 1915 he became president of the

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as well as general curator of the Bavarian State collections. His works include: "
Beiträge zur griechischen Mythologie und Religionsgeschichte
'" (1886), "
Untersuchungen zu den Mimiamben des Herondas
'" (1892), etc. He published editions of the poet

Herondas The first column of the Herodas papyrus, showing ''Mimiamb'' 1. 1–15. Herodas, or Herondas ( or – the name is spelt differently in the few places where he is mentioned), was a Greek poet and the author of short humorous dramatic scenes ...

, the fables of

Babrius Babrius (, ''Bábrios''; ), "Babrius" in '' Chambers's Encyclopædia''. London: George Newnes, 1961, Vol. 2, p. 21. also known as Babrias () or Gabrias (), was the author of a collection of Greek fables, many of which are known today as Aesop's F ...

, "Anthologia lyrica Graeca" (1897 ff) and was an editor of the journal ''Philologus''. After 1909 he published, with others, several volumes of "''Das Erbe der Alten. Schriften Über Wesen und Wirkung Der Antike''".Google Books
Das Erbe der Alten

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* 1857 births 1918 deaths Writers from Hanover People from the Kingdom of Hanover German classical scholars Academic staff of Heidelberg University Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Academic staff of the University of Tübingen German male writers {{Germany-academic-bio-stub