Wilhelm August Ritter von Hartel (28 May 1839 – 14 January 1907) was an

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specializing in classical studies.

Biography

He was born at Hof, in

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, and studied at the

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(1859–63). He was appointed professor of

classical philology 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 ...

at Vienna in 1872, and made a member of the

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in 1875. He became a member of the Berlin Academy in 1893, and became a life member of the Austrian House of Peers (german: Herrenhaus) in 1890. In 1899 he was for a short time Minister of Education and Public Worship (german: Minister für Kultus und Unterricht), to which post he was reappointed in 1900.

Honors

In occasion of his 30th anniversary of working at the

friends and students dedicated a medal to Wilhelm von Hartel made by the local engraver Anton Scharff. Through Victor von Renner we know that the scene on the revers cites paintings of the Italian Renaissance painter

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picturin
the passing down of knowledge
In the background the engraver Anton Scharff placed a panorama of

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thus combining his work in education and for the policy of education with the city where his merits were accomplished. Together with this medal Hartel received
marble bust
made by Georg Leisek.

Works

* ''Homerische Studien'' (1871–74; 2nd edition 1873). * ''Demosthenische Studien'' (2 volumes, 1877–78). * ''Studien über attisches Staatsrecht und Urkundenwesen'' (1878).

Editions of classical authors

For the ''Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum'' (Vienna Academy of Sciences): * Eutropius, ''Breviarium ab urbe condita'' (1872). *

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, ''Opera omnia'' (3 volumes, 1868–71). * Ennodius, ''Opera omnia'' (1882). *

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, ''Opuscula'' (1886). He was made editor of the "''Zeitschrift für Oesterreichische Gymnasien''" in 1874. With

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, he founded the ''Wiener Studien'', a journal on classical philology, in 1879.Wiener Studien
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References

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In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, , S. 707–709 {{DEFAULTSORT:Hartel, Wilhelm von 1839 births 1907 deaths University of Vienna alumni Academic staff of the University of Vienna Austrian philologists Members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences