Wilhelm von Hartel

Wilhelm von Hartel
Academic work

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

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,[1] 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

Editions of classical authors

For the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum (Vienna Academy of Sciences):

He was made editor of the "Zeitschrift für Oesterreichische Gymnasien" in 1874.[2] With Karl Schenkl, he founded the Wiener Studien, a journal on classical philology, in 1879.[3]

Notes

  1. Hartel Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
  2. Nordisk familjebok
  3. Wiener Studien Archive.org

References

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