- Hartmut Erbse
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name = Hartmut Erbse
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birth_date = birth date|1915|11|23|df=y
birth_place =Rudolstadt ,Germany
death_date = death date and age|2004|7|7|1915|11|23|df=y
death_place =Trossingen ,Germany
occupation = Classical philologist
spouse =Hartmut Erbse (
23 November 1915 ,Rudolstadt –7 July 2004 ,Trossingen ) was a German classical philologist.Life
The son of a dentist from
Thüringen , Erbse studiedclassical philology inHamburg , where he was well known for his lively hat-wear and received his doctorate in 1940. In 1948 he completed hishabilitation atGraz with a study of Attic lexica; in the same year he received his first lectureship, in Hamburg. In 1954 he was appointed to a special professorship there, and six years later he was appointed a full professor. In 1965 he accepted an invitation to take the chair of Greek philology atTübingen , and in 1968 a further invitation to theUniversity of Bonn . He researched and taught there until just before his death.His research was devoted to textual criticism and editions of Greek fragments and
scholia , and to interpretation ofHomer ,Herodotus , andThucydides . Erbse acted as co-editor of the well-known journals "Glotta" and "Hermes", and in 1965 was one of the editors of the "Lexikon der Alten Welt" (LAW), alongsideCarl Andresen ,Olof Gigon ,Karl Schefold ,Karl Friedrich Stroheker , andErnst Zinn . WithKurt Latte he published the "Lexica Graeca minora".Hartmut Erbse was a Corresponding Fellow of the
British Academy and theAcademy of Sciences at Göttingen.Works (select)
* (1950) "Untersuchungen zu den attizistischen Lexika", Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.
* (1960) "Beiträge zur Überlieferung der Iliasscholien", München: Beck.
* (1965) "Lexica Graeca minora", Hildesheim: Olms.
* (1969–1983) "Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem", Berlin: de Gruyter.
* (1972) "Beiträge zum Verständnis der Odyssee", Berlin: de Gruyter.
* (1979) "Ausgewählte Schriften zur klassischen Philologie", Berlin-New York: de Gruyter.
* (1980) "Festschrift für Hartmut Erbse zum 65. Geburtstag", ed.Joachim Latacz , Würzburg: Schöningh.
* (1984) "Studien zum Prolog der euripideischen Tragödie", Berlin: de Gruyter.
* (1986) "Untersuchungen zur Funktion der Götter im homerischen Epos", Berlin: de Gruyter.
* (1989) "Thukydides-Interpretationen", Berlin: de Gruyter.
* (1991) "Fiktion und Wahrheit im Werke Herodots", Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
* (1992) "Studien zum Verständnis Herodots", Berlin: de Gruyter.
* (1995) "Theosophorum Graecorum Fragmenta", Stuttgart: Teubner.
* (2003) "Studien zur griechischen Dichtung", Wiesbaden: Steiner.
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