Ernst Maass
Appearance
Ernst Maass(12 April 1856, inKolberg– 11 November 1929, inMarburg) was a Germanclassical philologist.
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From 1875 he studied at the universities ofTübingenandGreifswald,receiving his doctorate in 1879 as a student ofUlrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff.After graduation, he took an extended study trip to Italy, Paris and London (1880–82),[1]and afterwards qualified as a lecturer inBerlinwith thehabilitation-thesisAnalecta Eratosthenica.In 1886, he was named a professor at the University of Greifswald, and from 1895 to 1924, served as a professor and director of the philological seminary at theUniversity of Marburg.In 1910/11 he wasrectorat the university.[2][3]
Selected works
[edit]- Arati Phaenomena(edition ofAratus'Phaenomena).
- Commentatio mythographica,1886.
- De Attali Rhodii fragmentis Arateis commentatio,1888.
- Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem Townleyana(withWilhelm Dindorf,1888).
- Parerga Attica,1889.
- De Aeschyli Supplicibus commentatio,1890.
- De tribus Philetae carminibus,1895.
- Orpheus; Untersuchungen zur griechischen, römischen, altchristlichen Jenseitsdichtung und Religion,1895 –Orpheus:Investigations of Greek, Roman and early Christian afterlife literature and religion.
- De Lenaeo et Delphinio commentatio,1896.
- Commentariorum in Aratum reliquiae,1898.
- Analecta sacra et profana,1901.
- Die Tagesgötter in Rom und den Provinzen, aus der Kultur des Niederganges der antiken Welt,1902 – The Tagesgötter in Rome and the provinces.
- Griechen und Semiten auf dem Isthmus von Korinth,1903 – Greeks and Semites on theIsthmus of Corinth.
- Goethe und die antike,1912 –Goetheand antiquity.[4][5]
References
[edit]- ^Maaß, ErnstMeyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
- ^Kraatz - Menges / edited by Rudolf VierhausDeutsche Biographische Enzyklopaedie
- ^Maass (Maaß), ErnstatNeue Deutsche Biographie
- ^HathiTrust Digital Librarypublished works
- ^Ernst Maassde.Wikisource (bibliography)