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 Heinrich Ludolf 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 Johann Carl Otto Ribbeck (23 July 1827, in Erfurt – 18 July 1898, in Leipzig) was a German classical scholar. His works are mostly confined to criticisms of Latin poetry and to classical character sketches. Biography He was born at Erfurt in S ...

and

Rudolf Hildebrand Heinrich Rudolf Hildebrand (13 March 1824 – 28 October 1894) was a German studies, Germanist, contributor to, and then, editor of the Brothers Grimm, Grimm brothers' ''Deutsches Wörterbuch''. He also wrote on the history of German folksongs, and ...

. He earned his habilitation in 1883 and three years later was a professor at the

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, succeeding

Erwin Rohde Erwin Rohde (; 9 October 1845 – 11 January 1898) was one of the great German classical scholars of the 19th century. Rohde was born in Hamburg and was the son of a doctor. Outside of antiquarian circles, Rohde is known today chiefly for h ...

. Later on, he worked as a

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at the

University of Heidelberg } Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, (german: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; la, Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis) is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, ...

(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 (Greek: 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 sc ...

, the fables of

Babrius Babrius ( grc-gre, Βάβριος, ''Bábrios''; century),"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 whic ...

, "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 Heidelberg University faculty Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich faculty University of Tübingen faculty German male writers {{Germany-academic-bio-stub