Wilhelm Dittenberger

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Wilhelm Dittenberger
Born(1840-08-31)August 31, 1840
DiedDecember 29, 1906(1906-12-29) (aged 66)

Wilhelm (William) Dittenberger (August 31, 1840 in

philologist
in classical epigraphy.

Life

Wilhelm Dittenberger was the son of the Protestant theologian

University of Halle. He was a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and an ordinary member of the German Archaeological Institute
.

Dittenberger's research focus was Greek epigraphy. His name is associated above all with the edited collections Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum (later re-edited by

.

His son, Heinrich Dittenberger (1875–1952), was a lawyer in Halle, Leipzig, and Berlin, as well as Chief Director of the German Bar Association from 1910 to 1933.[1]

After his death in 1907, his library was acquired by the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as was the library of Johannes Vahlen, slightly later (1913). Together, the two libraries form the Dittenberger-Vahlen Collection of Classical Texts, containing over 15,000 books and 17,000 reprints. In 2000, the university began the digitisation of this collection with the assistance of the National Endowment for the Humanities
.

Dittenberger's tomb is located in the Nordfriedhof in Halle.

Writings

Literature about Dittenberger

References

  1. ^ Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender. Vol. 7, 1950.

External links

Wilhelm Dittenberger in Wikitext - sources and full-text

  • Literature by and about William Dittenberger in the catalogue of the German National Library
  • Sylloge inscriptionum graecarum, 4 voll., Lipsiae apud S. Hirzelium, 1915-24: vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 4.
  • Orientis graeci inscriptiones selectae. Supplementum Sylloges inscriptionum graecarum, 2 voll., Lipsiae apud S. Hirzel, 1903: vol. 1, vol. 2.
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