Hans Diller (September 8, 1905 in
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– December 15, 1977 in
Kiel
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) was a German classical scholar and historian of
ancient Greek medicine.
Life and work
Diller obtained a doctorate in 1930 in
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, and later studied in
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in 1932 before returning to Hamburg as a lecturer.
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In 1933 Diller signed the ''''.
In 1937, he made an application for Nazi Party
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membership and the same year he became an associate professor in Rostock
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. He was accepted into the Nazi party in 1940.World War II
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, he denied before the denazification commission his party membership and received an appointment as professor of classical philology at Kiel, where he remained until his retirement. He rejected offers to move to Mainz
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(1952), although he became a full member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature based there, and further rejected offers to move to Cologne
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(1958) and Hamburg
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(1960) . For the academic year 1950/51 he was appointed rector of the Christian-Albrechts University
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in Kiel.
One of his main areas of research was Hippocratic
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medicine. He published a book in 1970 dedicated to this field, and partly consisted of work written by Hippocrates originally. In addition, he also concerned himself with the Greek tragedians and co-authored works about Sophocles
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, for example. For his efforts he was awarded in 1962 an honorary doctorate at the University of Athens
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; el, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, ''Ethnikó ke Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the Univers ...
.[''Gnomon. Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft''. 1962, Band 34, S. 528.]
Diller taught a number of notable scholars including Hermann Grensemann, Hans-Joachim Newiger
Hans-Joachim Newiger (1 April 1925 – 26 December 2011) was a German classical philologist.
Life
Born in Königsberg, Newiger was appointed on 21 December 1953 at the University of Kiel with his Dissertation ''Metaphern und Chorpersonifikation ...
, Gert Preiser and Renate Wittern-Sterzel.
Works
Monographs
* ''Die Überlieferung der Hippokratischen Schrift Peri aerōn hydatōn topōn''. Dieterich, Leipzig 1932.
* ''Wanderarzt und Aitiologe. Studien zur Hippokratischen Schrift Peri aerōn ydatōn topōn''. Dieterich, Leipzig 1934.
* ''Die Bakchen und ihre Stellung im Spätwerk des Euripides''. Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur
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, Mainz 1955.
* ''Kleine Schriften zur antiken Literatur''. Hrsg. von Hans-Joachim Newiger und Hans Seyffert. C.H. Beck, München 1971 (mit Verzeichnis der Schriften 1932–1970; Kurzlebenslauf S. 635–636).
* ''Kleine Schriften zur antiken Medizin''. Hrsg. von Gerhard Baader und Hermann Grensemann. de Gruyter, Berlin 1973, .
Text editions and translations
* Hippokrates: ''Schriften. Die Anfänge der abendländischen Medizin''. Reinbek, Rowohlt 1962; Neuausgabe u.d.T. Hippokrates: ''Ausgewählte Schriften''. Mit einem bibliographischen Anhang von Karl-Heinz Leven. Stuttgart, Reclam 1994, (Kurzlebenslauf S. 342–43).
* Hippokrates: ''Über die Umwelt''. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1970 ( Corpus medicorum Graecorum 1,1,2). 2. unveränderte Auflage 1998.
Notes and references
Bibliography
* Ernst Klee
Ernst Klee (15 March 1942, Frankfurt – 18 May 2013, Frankfurt) was a German journalist and author. As a writer on Germany's history, he was best known for his exposure and documentation of medical crimes in Nazi Germany, much of which was concer ...
: ''Das Personenlexikon zum dritten Reich: Wer war was vor und nach 1945?''. Fischer, 2003,
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German classical scholars
Ancient Greek medicine scholars
University of Kiel faculty
1905 births
1977 deaths
20th-century German historians
German male non-fiction writers