Conrad Bursian
Conrad Bursian (Script error: No such module "IPA".; 14 November 1830 – 21 September 1883) was a German philologist and archaeologist.
Biography
He was born at Mutzschen in Saxony. When his parents moved to Leipzig, he received his early education at Thomasschule zu Leipzig. From 1847 to 1851 he was a student at the University of Leipzig, where his instructors included Moritz Haupt (1808–1874) and Otto Jahn (1813–1869). He then spent six months in Berlin, where he attended lectures given by Philipp August Böckh (1785–1867). In 1852 he completed his university studies at Leipzig, spending the next three years traveling in Belgium, France, Italy and Greece.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
In 1856 he obtained his habilitation, and two years later was an associate professor in Leipzig. In 1861 he was appointed professor of philology and archaeology at Tübingen; in 1864 he was a professor of classical antiquities at Zürich. From 1869 at Jena, he was a professor and director of the archaeological museum, and in 1874 he relocated to Munich, where he served as a professor until his death.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Principal works
His favorite classical authors were Aristophanes, Demosthenes, Theocritus and the Greek tragedians; among the Romans, he favoured Lucretius, Juvenal and the Elegiacs.[1] He was editor of the Template:Ill (Annual report on the progress of classical studies),Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[2] and wrote an outline of Greek art history for Ersch and Gruber's Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste.[1]
His most important works are:
- Geographie von Griechenland (1862–1872) – Geography of Greece.
- Beiträge zur Geschichte der klassischen Studien im Mittelalter (1873) – Contributions to the history of classical studies in the Middle Ages.
- Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in Deutschland (1883) – History of classical philology in Germany.
- edition of Julius Firmicus Maternus' "De Errore Profanarum Religionum" (1856)
- edition of Seneca the Elder's "Suasoriae" (1857).[3]
See also
- Lustrum (journal), the successor to Bursians Jahresbericht
Notes
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- ↑ a b ADB:Bursian, Konrad at Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
- ↑ German Wikisource: Zeitschriften (Altertumswissenschaft)
- ↑ List of publications copied from an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia.
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References
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Further reading
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- 1830 births
- 1883 deaths
- Archaeologists from Saxony
- German classical scholars
- German philologists
- People from the Kingdom of Saxony
- Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
- Leipzig University alumni
- Academic staff of Leipzig University
- Academic staff of the University of Tübingen
- Academic staff of the University of Zurich
- Academic staff of the University of Jena
- Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich