Ernst Maass

Ernst Maass (12 April 1856, in Kolberg – 11 November 1929, in Marburg) was a German classical philologist.

Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem Townleyana, 1887

From 1875 he studied at the universities of Tübingen and Greifswald, receiving his doctorate in 1879 as a student of Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff. After graduation, he took an extended study trip to Italy, Paris and London (1880–82),[1] and afterwards qualified as a lecturer in Berlin with the habilitation-thesis Analecta Eratosthenica. In 1886, he was named a professor at the University of Greifswald, and from 1895 to 1924, served as a professor and director of the philological seminary at the University of Marburg. In 1910/11 he was rector at the university.[2][3]

Selected works
  • Arati Phaenomena (edition of Aratus' Phaenomena).
  • Commentatio mythographica, 1886.
  • De Attali Rhodii fragmentis Arateis commentatio, 1888.
  • Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem Townleyana (with Wilhelm Dindorf, 1888).
  • Parerga Attica, 1889.
  • De Aeschyli Supplicibus commentatio, 1890.
  • De tribus Philetae carminibus, 1895.
  • Orpheus; Untersuchungen zur griechischen, römischen, altchristlichen Jenseitsdichtung und Religion, 1895 – Orpheus: Investigations of Greek, Roman and early Christian afterlife literature and religion.
  • De Lenaeo et Delphinio commentatio, 1896.
  • Commentariorum in Aratum reliquiae, 1898.
  • Analecta sacra et profana, 1901.
  • Die Tagesgötter in Rom und den Provinzen, aus der Kultur des Niederganges der antiken Welt, 1902 – The Tagesgötter in Rome and the provinces.
  • Griechen und Semiten auf dem Isthmus von Korinth, 1903 – Greeks and Semites on the Isthmus of Corinth.
  • Goethe und die antike, 1912 – Goethe and antiquity.[4][5]

References
  1. Maaß, Ernst Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
  2. Kraatz - Menges / edited by Rudolf Vierhaus Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopaedie
  3. Maass (Maaß), Ernst at Neue Deutsche Biographie
  4. HathiTrust Digital Library published works
  5. Ernst Maass de.Wikisource (bibliography)
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