Wilhelm Studemund - Imagines philologorum

Wilhelm Studemund (3 July 1843, in

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– 8 August 1889, in Breslau) was a German classical philologist, known for his

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of the Ambrosian palimpsest of

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. He studied philology at the

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under

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and

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, and at the

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as a student of

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. He received his doctorate in 1864, and then spent several years in Italy, during which time, he devoted his energy to the deciphering of

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s. In 1868 he became an associate professor at the

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, and soon afterwards, he attained a full professorship. In 1870 he relocated to the

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Walther Killy Walther Killy (26 August 191728 December 1995) was a German literary scholar who specialised in poetry, especially that of Friedrich Hölderlin and Georg Trakl. He taught at the Free University of Berlin, the Georg-August-Universität Göttinge ...

''Dictionary of German Biography'' Leopold Cohn
ADB:Studemund, Wilhelm
In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, S. 721–731. In 1872 he was named a professor at the

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, and during following year, appointed chairman of the scientific examination board for school candidates. In 1882 he became a member of the high school council for Alsace-Lorraine. As an advisor to Edwin von Manteuffel, he was the target of frequent verbal attacks at Strasbourg. Following the death of Manteuffel in 1885, he relocated as a professor to the

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. He was founder and editor of the journal ''Breslauer philologische Abhandlungen''.

Selected works

* ''De canticis Plautinis'' (dissertation, 1864). * ''Commentatio de Vidularia Plautina'' (edition of Plautus, 1870). * ''Emendationes Plautinae'' (1871). * ''Analecta Liviana'' (with

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, 1873). * ''Gaii institutionum commentarii quattuor; Codicis Veronensis'', etc. (edition of

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, 1874). * ''Studien auf dem Gebiete des archaischen Lateins'' (3 volumes, 1873–91). * ''Anecdota varia Graeca musica metrica grammatica'' (with Rudolf Scholl, 1886). * ''T. Macci Plauti fabularum reliquiae Ambrosianae Codicis'', (1889).HathiTrust Digital Library
(published works)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Studemund, Wilhelm 1843 births 1889 deaths Writers from Szczecin Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg Academic staff of the University of Breslau Academic staff of the University of Greifswald Academic staff of the University of Würzburg Humboldt University of Berlin alumni University of Halle alumni German classical philologists