Otto Immisch (18 June 1862, Wartha, Lusatia - 29 October 1936,

Freiburg im Breisgau Freiburg im Breisgau (; abbreviated as Freiburg i. Br. or Freiburg i. B.; Low Alemannic German, Low Alemannic: ''Friburg im Brisgau''), commonly referred to as Freiburg, is an independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With a population o ...

) was a German

classical scholar 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 ...

Biography

He received his education at the

University of Leipzig Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 Decemb ...

, was appointed lecturer there in 1889 and professor in 1896. From 1907 to 1913 he was professor at

Giessen Giessen, spelled Gießen in German (), is a town in the German state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of both the district of Giessen and the administrative region of Giessen. The population is approximately 90,000, with roughly 37,000 univers ...

and in the latter year was appointed to a chair at

Königsberg Königsberg (, ) was the historic Prussian city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. Königsberg was founded in 1255 on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades, and was named ...

Works

Publisher works include: * ''Philologische Studien zu Plato'' ("Philological studies of Plato", 1896; 1903). * ''Die innere Entwicklung des griechischen Epos'' ("The inner development of the Greek epic", 1904). * Susemihl : ''Aristotelis Politica'' (editor, 1909). * ''Wie studiert man klassische Philologie?'' ("How should classical philology be studied?", 1909). * ''Das Erbe des Alten'' ("Inheritance from the ancients", 1911).

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* 1862 births 1936 deaths German philologists Leipzig University alumni Academic staff of Leipzig University Academic staff of the University of Giessen Academic staff of the University of Königsberg {{Germany-academic-bio-stub