Winfried Bühler

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Winfried Bühler
Born
Winfried Gregor Anton Maria Bühler

(1929-06-11)11 June 1929
Munich
Occupation(s)Classical Philologist
University Teacher
SpouseRia Fisser
Parent(s)Ottmar Bühler (1884–1965)
Maria Michels (1896–1990)

Winfried Bühler (11 June 1929 – 14 February 2010) was a German classical philologist.[1][2][3]

Life

Winfried Gregor Anton Maria Bühler was born in Münster. Ottmar Bühler (1884–1965), his father, was a distinguished Professor of Public Law - notably of Tax Law - at the university. Soon after Winfried was born his elder brother died, something which he very seldom mentioned but which nevertheless haunted him through his life. However, the timing of his birth meant that he narrowly avoided wartime conscription into the army or "Volkssturm" (militia). He attended the classics oriented "Beethoven Gymnasium" (secondary school) in Bonn, successfully completing his school leaving exams ("Abitur") at an unusually young age. He was still too young to be permitted to progress to a university immediately.[2]

During the Summer Term 1947 he joined a student building gang working on the reconstruction of the destroyed buildings at

Munich. He was by all accounts a serious and committed student.[2]

At

Oxford University. He had been obliged to leave Munich in 1937 because Lili Pfeiffer, his wife, had been classified as Jewish by the authorities, which put their lives in danger if they remained in Germany. During his time in Oxford Pfeiffer had further enhanced his already formidable academic reputation, notably with further published work on the Callimachus papyri. For Winfried Bühler to be accepted as a student by Pfeiffer is taken by contemporaries as an indication that he had already himself been marked out as a student of exceptional ability and potential.[2]

In Autumn 1954 Bühler passed his Level 1 teaching exam. On 1 March 1955 he was appointed to a position as an academic research assistant at

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ("German Research Association").[3]

He remained in Munich till 1966. That year he accepted an associate professorship at the

Hamburg University where in 1968 he was appointed to a professorship of classical philologist. Distinguished predecessors at Hamburg included Bruno Snell and Hartmut Erbse.[3] Early on during his Hamburg years, in 1970, he rejected an attempt by the University of Bern to lure him away.[3] Bühler remained at Hamburg till his retirement in 1991.[1] He taught only till 1989, however, which was when funding from the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft made it possible for him to progress without interruption his main project at that time, which was his work on the Proverbs of Zenobius.[2]

After 1991 he retired back to Munich.

Works

Greek mythology and Paremiography lay at the heart of Bühler's research. He was respected, in particular, as a leading contributor to the Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos ("Lexicon of early Greek Epic Poetry").[4] Since 1982 he has engaged in producing a critical compilation of the sayings of Zenobius, which now extends to three volumes.

Memberships and honours

Bühler was a member of the Joachim Jungius Socierty of Arts and Humanities ("Joachim-Jungius-Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften") in Hamburg from 1972, serving as its president between 1982 and 1985.[3] He was a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities from 1980, having been a corresponding member since 1974. In 1985 he became a corresponding member of the British Academy He became a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1988. He also, in 2002, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Thessaloniki.[3]

Output (selection)

  • Die Europa des Moschos. Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Wiesbaden 1960 (Hermes. Einzelschriften 13)
  • Beiträge zur Erklärung der Schrift vom Erhabenen. Göttingen 1964
  • Europa. Ein Überblick über die Zeugnisse des Mythos in der antiken Literatur und Kunst. München 1968
  • Zur L-Überlieferung der Athosklasse der griechischen Parömiographen. Göttingen 1979,
    ISBN 978-3-525-85116-6
  • Zenobii Athoi Proverbia vulgari ceteraque memoria aucta. 3 Bände (mehr nicht erschienen), Göttingen 1982–1999
  • Zur handschriftlichen Überlieferung der Sprüche der sieben Weisen. Göttingen 1989


References

  1. ^ a b "Bühler, Winfried, Dr. phil". Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog. Universitätsarchiv, Universität Hamburg. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Carl Joachim Classen (1928-2013). "Nachruf auf Winfried Bühler 11. Juni 1929 –14. Februar 2010" (PDF). (vorgetragen in der Plenarsitzung am 29. April 2011). Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. pp. 333–342. Retrieved 13 March 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Ernst Vogt (1930-2017) [in German]. "Winfried Bühler 11.6.1929 – 14.2.2010" (PDF). Nachrufe - Auszug aus Jahrbuch 2010. Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, München. pp. 170–172. Retrieved 13 March 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. The Classical Review. Cambridge University Press
    . p. 320. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
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