Wilhelm von Christ (2 August 1831 – 8 February 1906) was a German classical scholar.
Biography
He was born in
Geisenheim
Geisenheim is a town in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Darmstadt in Hessen, Germany, and is known as ''Weinstadt'' (“Wine Town”), ''Schulstadt'' (“School Town”), ''Domstadt'' (“Cathedral Town”) and ''Lindenstad ...
in
Hesse-Nassau
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Hesse-Nassau was created as a consequence of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 by combining the p ...
. From 1854 till 1860 he taught in the Maximiliansgymnasium at
Munich
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, and in 1861 was appointed professor of classical
philology
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at the
University of Munich
The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's List of universities in Germany, sixth-oldest u ...
.
Work
His most important works are:
*''Die metrische Ueberlieferung der pindarischen Oden'' (1868)
*''Geschichte der griechischen Literatur'' (5th ed., 1908 f.), a history of Greek literature down to the time of
Justinian
Justinian I (; la, Iustinianus, ; grc-gre, Ἰουστινιανός ; 48214 November 565), also known as Justinian the Great, was the Byzantine emperor from 527 to 565.
His reign is marked by the ambitious but only partly realized ''renovat ...
, one of the best works on the subject; after Christ died, this work was revised by
Wilhelm Schmid
*''Metrik der Griechen und Römer'' (1879)
*editions of
Pindar
Pindar (; grc-gre, Πίνδαρος , ; la, Pindarus; ) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian wrote, "Of the nine lyric poets, Pindar is ...
(1887)
*edition of the ''Poetika'' of
Aristotle
Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of phil ...
(1878)
*''Attikusausgabe des Demosthenes'' (1882)
*edition of the ''Metaphysica'' of Aristotle (1895)
*''
Iliad
The ''Iliad'' (; grc, Ἰλιάς, Iliás, ; "a poem about Ilium") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the ''Odysse ...
'' (1884)
His contributions to the ''Sitzungsberichte und Abhandlungen'' of the
Bavarian Academy of Sciences
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are particularly valuable.
In 1886, Wilhelm Christ was the first who put forward the theory that the so-called
Sea Peoples
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are identical with Plato's
Atlanteans
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Atlantean may also refer to:
* Atlantean figures, a type of ancient artifacts
* ''Atlantean'' (documentary series), a trilogy of TV films discussing the or ...
.
[Wilhelm Christ]
''Platonische Studien: Der Kritias ein historischer Roman''
in: ''Abhandlungen der bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften'', Vol. XVII, 2nd part, Munich 1886, pp. 451-512. Later, this thesis was repeated under varying perspectives by scholars and researchers such as
Theodor Gomperz
Theodor Gomperz (March 29, 1832August 29, 1912), Austrian philosopher and classical scholar, was born at Brno (Brünn).
Biography
Gomperz studied at Brno and at Vienna
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,
Spyridon Marinatos
Spyridon Nikolaou Marinatos ( el, Σπυρίδων Νικολάου Μαρινάτος; November 4, 1901 – October 1, 1974) was a Greek archaeologist, best known for leading excavations at Akrotiri on Santorini (1967–74), where he died and i ...
,
Jürgen Spanuth
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A
*Jürgen Ahrend (born 1930), German organ builder
* Jürgen Alzen (born 1 ...
,
John V. Luce, or
Herwig Görgemanns
Herwig Görgemanns (born 1931) is a German classicist, former professor and emeritus of Classics, classical philology at Heidelberg University.
In Würzburg he presented his dissertation in classical philology: contributions to the interpretation ...
.
Further reading
*
Otto Crusius, ''Gedächtnisrede'' (“Memorial talk
n Wilhelm von Christ; Munich, 1907).
Notes
References
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Attribution
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External links
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1831 births
1906 deaths
German classical scholars
German philologists
Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
People from Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis