Gustav Uhlig
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Gustav Uhlig (9 July 1838 in Gleiwitz – 14 June 1914 in Schmiedeberg im Riesengebirge) was a German educator and
classical philologist Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and ot ...
. He was the father of geographer Carl Uhlig (1872–1938). He studied classical philology at the universities of
Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...
and
Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...
, and from 1866 worked as a schoolteacher at the cantonal gymnasium in Aarau. In 1869 he became an associate professor of classical philology at the
University of Zürich The University of Zürich (UZH, german: Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 f ...
, then around 1872 was appointed a gymnasium director in
Heidelberg Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...
, where he also became an honorary professor at the
university A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...
. During his career, he traveled widely throughout Europe, taking educational trips to Italy (1869), Greece (1870), France, England, Holland (1874), Sweden, Norway (1887) and Denmark (1888).


Published works

* ''Emendationum Apollonianarum specimen'' (dissertation, 1862). * ''Zur Wiederherstellung des ältesten occidentalischen Compendiums der Grammatik'', 1882 – To the restoration of the oldest Occidental compendiums of grammar. * ''Dionysii Thracis ars grammatica, qualem exemplaria vetustissima exhibent'' (with Adalbert Merx, 1883) – edition of
Dionysius Thrax Dionysius Thrax ( grc-gre, Διονύσιος ὁ Θρᾷξ ''Dionýsios ho Thrâix'', 170–90 BC) was a Greek grammarian and a pupil of Aristarchus of Samothrace. He was long considered to be the author of the earliest grammatical text on the G ...
. * ''Die Stundenpläne für Gymnasien und Realgymnasien in den bedeutendsten Staaten Deutschlands'' (1883) – Timetables for schools and realgymnasiums in the more important states of Germany. * ''Die Einheitsschule mit lateinlosem Unterbau'' (1892). * ''Apollonii Dyscoli de constructione libri quattuor'' (1910) – edition of
Apollonius Dyscolus Apollonius Dyscolus ( el, Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Δύσκολος; reached his maturity sometime around 130 CE) is considered one of the greatest of the Greek grammarians. Life Little is known of Apollonius Dyscolus, other than that he ...
. * ''Die Entwicklung des Kampfes gegen das Gymnasium'' (1910). From 1890 he was editor of the magazine ''Das Humanistische Gymnasium'',Gymnasium (Zeitschrift)
/ref> a publication issued by the ''Deutscher Gymnasialverein'' (German Gymnasium Association).


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* 1838 births 1914 deaths People from Gliwice Heidelberg University faculty University of Zurich faculty University of Bonn alumni Humboldt University of Berlin alumni German classical philologists {{Germany-academic-bio-stub