Wilhelm Kroll
- For the metallurgist, see Wilhelm J. Kroll.
Wilhelm Kroll (October 7, 1869 – April 21, 1939) was a German classic philologist (Klassische Philologie).
Kroll was born in the town of Frankenstein in the Prussian Province of Silesia. Having studied in Breslau (and Berlin), he obtained his Ph.D. in 1891. Afterwards he worked as a teacher and in 1894 was appointed a Privatdozent at the Breslau university. In 1899 he obtained a chair at the University of Greifswald. He moved to Münster in 1906 and returned to Breslau in 1913, where he was offered the chair of his former colleague Franz Skutsch.
After having worked as a Breslau professor für more than 20 years and being retired in 1935, Kroll moved to Berlin in 1937. He sought the anonymity of the big city because of his anti-Nazi reputation. He died in 1939, aged 69.
Kroll was an internationally renowned classicist, owing to his research and, even more, his editorial work on a number of important publication, the biggest of which was the Real-Enzyklopädische der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft. Kroll directed this encyclopedia from 1906 until his death, combining the work of classical scholars from all over Europe and the United States.
Literary works
- An editor of the "Real-Enzyklopädische der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft" (since 1906-; after August Pauly, Georg Wissowa)
- Geschichte der klassischen Philologie. 1908;
2. verb. Aufl. Vereinig. wissenschaftl. Verl., Berlin und Leipzig 1919 (Sammlung Göschen, 367)
- C. Valerius Catullus. 1922;
7. Aufl. Teubner, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-519-24001-7
- Studien zum Verständnis der römischen Literatur. Metzler, Stuttgart 1924;
Nachdruck Garland, New York und London 1978, ISBN 0-8240-2972-0
- Die Kultur der ciceronischen Zeit. 2 Teile. Dieterich, Leipzig 1933;
Nachdruck Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1975, ISBN 3-534-01542-8
- Rhetorik, 1937
Critical Editions
- Vettii Valentis Anthologiarum Libri, Guilelmus Kroll, Weidman, Berlin, 1908
- Matheseos Libri VIII, 2 vols., ed. W. Kroll, F. Skutsch and K. Ziegler, Teubner, Stuttgart, 1897-1913.
- Historia Alexandri Magni, ed. W. Kroll, vol. 1. Weidmann, Berlin, 1926.
References
- Udo W. Scholz: Die Breslauer klassische Philologie und die Realenzyklopädie der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft. In: Jahrbuch der Schlesischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau, Bd. 62–64 (2001–2003), S. 311–326, esp. S. 320–322.
- Peter Wirth: Kroll, Wilhelm. In: Neue deutsche Biographie. Vol. 13 (1982), p. 73.
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