Otto Keller (philologist)

1918 photograph

Otto Keller (born in Tübingen, 28 May 1838; died in Ludwigsburg, 16 February 1927) was a German classical philologist who specialized in Horace.

Biography

He was educated at the universities of Tübingen and Bonn and later specialized in the study of Horace. He was professor at Freiburg 1872-76, at Graz 1876-81 and from then until his retirement in 1909 he was at Prague.

Works

Chief among his critical works on Horace are:

• Horatii Opera Rec. Holder et Keller, written with A. T. Holder (1864–70; Vol. I; 2d ed., 1899)
• Epilegomena zu Horaz (3 vols., Leipzig 1879-80)
• Pseudoacrouis Scholia in Horatium Vetustiora (2 vols., 1902–04)

Other works:

• Tiere des klassischen Altertums in kulturgeschichtlicher Beziehung (Animals of classical antiquity and cultural history; Innsbruck, 1887)
• Tier- und Pflanzenbilder auf Münzen und Gemmen (Pictures of animals and plants on coins and gems; 1889)
• Lateinische Etymologien (Latin etymology; 1893)
• Grammatische Aufsätze (1895)
• Kulturgeschichtliches aus der Tierwelt (Animals and cultural history; 1904)
• Die antike Tierwelt (The ancient animal world; Vol. I, 1909; Vol. II, 1914)

Notes

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Keller, Otto". Encyclopedia Americana. 
•  "Keller, Otto". New International Encyclopedia. 1905. 

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