Rudolf Hirzel (20 March 1846,

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...

- 30 December 1917,

Jena Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a popu ...

) 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 ...

, and author of a number of major books on Greek law,

oath Traditionally an oath (from Anglo-Saxon ', also called plight) is either a statement of fact or a promise taken by a sacrality as a sign of verity. A common legal substitute for those who conscientiously object to making sacred oaths is to ...

dialogue Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American English) is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange. As a philosophical or didactic device, it is c ...

s and names. In Jena Rudolf Hirzel lived in the same house as

Gottlob Frege Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (; ; 8 November 1848 – 26 July 1925) was a German philosopher, logician, and mathematician. He was a mathematics professor at the University of Jena, and is understood by many to be the father of analytic phil ...

and it has been conjectured that his studies in ancient logic may have influenced him.Gabriel G., Huemllser K., Schlotter S., Zur Miete bei Frege - Rudolf Hirzel und die Rezeption der stoischen Logik und Semantik in Jena,'' Journal for History and Philosophy of Logic'', Vol. 30, (Nov. 2009), p 369-88

Works

* ''De Bonis in fine Philebi enumeratis'' Dissertatio inauguralis. Leipzig 29.07.1868 * ''Untersuchungen zu Cicero's philosophischen Schriften'' 3 vols. (1877–1883) * ''De logica Stoicorum''. in: Satura philologa. Hermanno Sauppio obtulit amicorum conlegarum decas. (1879) pp. 61–78. * ''Der Dialog. Ein literarhistorischer Versuch'' (1895) * ''Der Eid, ein beitrag zu seiner Geschichte'' (1902) * ''Themis, Dike und Verwandtes. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Rechtsidee bei den Griechen'' (1907) * ''Die Strafe der Steinigung'' (1909) * ''Plutarch'' (1912) * ''Die Person. Begriff und Name derselben im Altertum'' (1914) * ''Der Name. Ein Beitrag zu seiner Geschichte im Altertum und besonders bei den Griechen'' (1918)

References

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