Karl Reinhardt (philologist)

Karl Ludwig Reinhardt (February 14, 1886 – January 9, 1958) was a German classical

Life

Reinhardt was born in Detmold, and grew up in Frankfurt, the city to which his father, the educational reformer Karl Reinhardt, Sr., had been called in 1886 to serve as head of the Lessing-Gymnasium. In Frankfurt the younger Reinhardt studied at the Goethe-Gymnasium, a secondary school founded in 1897 on the principles of his father's Frankfurter Lehrplan ("Frankfurt Teaching Plan"), and directed by him from 1897 to 1904.

Karl Ludwig was the grandson of businessman Carl Johann Freudenberg, founder of the Freudenberg Group (Unternehmensgruppe Freudenberg).

In 1905, he began studying classical philology at the University of Bonn and the Humboldt University of Berlin. There he received his doctorate in 1910 under Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff. Upon graduation, he taught at the universities of Bonn, Marburg, and Hamburg, until he was called to the University of Frankfurt in 1924. He remained there until he was named Professor of Classical Philology Emeritus in 1951, except for the years 1942–1945, when he was at the University of Leipzig. He became a regular member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences at the time of his call to Leipzig. In 1937 The Bavarian Academy of Sciences named him a corresponding member.

Professor Karl Ludwig Reinhardt is considered one of the leading Hellenists of his time. He is perhaps best known for his researches on

• Parmenides und die Geschichte der griechischen Philosophie (1916^[1]
• Poseidonios von Apameia: Der Rhodier genannt (1921)
• Kosmos und Sympathie (1926)^[2]
• Platons Mythen (1927)^[3]
• Sophokles (1933)^[4]
• Aischylos als Regisseur und Theologe (1948)
• Von Werken und Formen (1948)
• Die Iliad und ihr Dichter. Edited and published posthumously by
  Uvo Hölscher
  (1961)
• Erinnerungen an einen Lehrer (1961)
• Erinnerungen (n.d.)

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