Justus Hermann Lipsius, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Justus Hermann Lipsius

German classical philologist

Date of Birth: 09-May-1834

Place of Birth: Leipzig, Leipzig District, Germany

Date of Death: 05-Sep-1920

Profession: pedagogue, university teacher, classical scholar, classical philologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Justus Hermann Lipsius

  • Justus Hermann Lipsius (9 May 1834, Leipzig – 5 September 1920, Leipzig) was a German classical philologist.
  • He was the brother of theologian Richard Adelbert Lipsius. He studied theology and philology at the University of Leipzig (1850–1856), where he later served as an associate professor (1869-1877) and full professor (1877-1914) of classical philology.
  • In 1891/92 he was university rector.He was editor of Andocides (1888) and of Demosthenes, "De corona oratio" (1884), reviser of Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier and Georg Friedrich Schömann's "Der attische Process" (two volumes, Berlin, 1883, 1887) and of Schömann's "Griechische Altertümer" (two volumes, Berlin, 1897, 1901), and author of "Attisches Recht und Rechtsverfassung" (1905–1912).
  • He wrote numerous philological papers and edited "Leipziger Studien zur klassischen Philologie".

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