Wilhelm Dittenberger
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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
De Bello Gallico begun by Friedrich Kraner
.
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
- Inscriptions Graecae
- Vol 3: Inscriptions Atticae Aetatis Romanae. 2 parts. Reimer, Berlin 1878–1882. Reprint 1977–1978, ISBN 3-11-007004-9.
- Vol 7: Inscriptions Megaridis et Boeotiae. Reimer, Berlin 1892 Reprint 1978, ISBN 3-11-007005-7.
- Vol 9, 1: Inscriptions Phocidis, Locridis, Aetoliae, Acarnaniae, Insularum maris Ionii. Reimer, Berlin 1897, reprinted 1978, ISBN 3-11-007006-5.
- Vol 3: Inscriptions Atticae Aetatis Romanae. 2 parts. Reimer, Berlin 1878–1882. Reprint 1977–1978,
- Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum. 2 vols. Leipzig 1883.
- Orientis Graeci inscriptiones selectae (OGIS) 2 vols. Leipzig, 1903–1905. Reprint Olms, Hildesheim, 1986, ISBN 3-487-00029-6.
- Wilfried Gawantka: Updating Concordances to Dittenberger's Orientis Graeci Inscriptiones Selectae (OGIS) and the third edition of which he authored: Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum (3rd ed.) . Hildesheim (1977) ISBN 3-487-06447-2
- Lisa Sophie Cordes, Hans-Ulrich Berner, "Dittenberger, Wilhelm." In: ISBN 978-3-476-02033-8, Sp. 310f.
Literature about Dittenberger
- Otto Kern, "Wilhelm Dittenberger and images of central German life. third generation images of the 18th and 19th Century. Article for the Historical Commission for the Province of Saxony." Self-published: Magdeburg, 1928, pp. 522–538.
- Hans-Dieter Zimmermann, "Wilhelm Dittenberger (1840–1906). On 100th year to the death of an important scholar and dedicated local politician." Yearbook for Halle City History 2006. Stekovics: Halle 2006, pp. 264–269, ISBN 978-3-89923-133-5.
References
- ^ 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.