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Name
  
Wilhelm Hartel


Wilhelm von Hartel

Died
  
January 14, 1907, Vienna, Austria

Wilhelm August Ritter von Hartel (28 May 1839 – 14 January 1907) was an Austrian philologist specializing in classical studies.

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Biography

He was born at Hof, in Moravia, and studied at the University of Vienna (1859–63). He was appointed professor of classical philology at Vienna in 1872, and made a member of the Vienna Academy 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.

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 (Vienna Academy of Sciences):

  • Eutropius, Breviarium ab urbe condita (1872).
  • Cyprian, Opera omnia (3 volumes, 1868–71).
  • Ennodius, Opera omnia (1882).

    • He was made editor of the "Zeitschrift für Oesterreichische Gymnasien" in 1874. With Karl Schenkl, he founded the Wiener Studien, a journal on classical philology, in 1879.

    References

    Wilhelm von Hartel Wikipedia
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