Wilhelm von Hartel

Wilhelm von Hartel

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

Biography

He was born at Hof, in Moravia, and studied at the University of Vienna. 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 ed. 1873)
• Demosthenische Studien (1877–78)
• Studien über attisches Staatsrecht und Urkundenwesen (1878)

Editions of classical authors

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

• Eutropius, Breviarium (1872)
• Cyprian, Opera Omnia (3 vols., 1868–71)
• Ennodius, Opera

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.

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References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Moore, F., eds. (1905). "Hartel, Wilhelm von". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.