Hermann Mutschmann (21 October 1882, in

Essen Essen () is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and Dortmund, as well as ...

– 20 July 1918, at

Herlies Herlies () is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. It is part of the Métropole Européenne de Lille. Population Heraldry See also *Communes of the Nord department The following is a list of the 647 communes of the Nord ...

) was a German

classical philologist Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek and Roman literature and their original languages, ...

. He studied classical philology at the

University of Bonn The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (), is a public research university in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the () on 18 October 1818 by Frederick Willi ...

as a pupil of

Hermann Usener Hermann Karl Usener (23 October 1834 – 21 October 1905) was a German scholar in the fields of philology and comparative religion. Life Hermann Usener was born at Weilburg and educated at its Gymnasium. From 1853 he studied at Heidelberg ...

and

Franz Bücheler Franz Bücheler (3 June 18373 May 1908) was a German classical scholar, was born in Rheinberg, and educated at Bonn, where he was a student of Friedrich Ritschl (1806–1876). Biography In 1856, Bücheler graduated from the University of Bonn ...

, then continued his education at the

University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, (, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a public research university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in 1665 as the ''Academia Holsator ...

under Siegfried Sudhaus. In 1906 he received his doctorate at Kiel with a dissertation on

Aristotle Aristotle (; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosophy, Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, a ...

, titled ''De divisionibus quae vulgo dicuntur Aristoteleis''. In 1907/08 he took a study tour of Italy, followed by work as a tutor in Bonn. In 1910 he obtained his

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in Germany, France, Italy, Poland and some other European and non-English-speaking countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excelle ...

for classical philology, and in 1913 succeeded Christian Cornelius Jensen as an associate professor at the

University of Königsberg The University of Königsberg () was the university of Königsberg in Duchy of Prussia, which was a fief of Poland. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant Reformation, Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke A ...

. During World War I, he died on the Western Front, near the town of Herlies in northern France.

Published works

In 1912–14 he was the author of a two volume edition on the writings of

Sextus Empiricus Sextus Empiricus (, ; ) was a Greek Pyrrhonist philosopher and Empiric school physician with Roman citizenship. His philosophical works are the most complete surviving account of ancient Greek and Roman Pyrrhonism, and because of the argument ...

"''Sexti Empirici Opera''"
. Unfinished at the time of his death, the series was continued decades later by Jürgen Mau (1916–2007). In 1913 he published ''Tendenz, Aufbau und Quellen der Schrift Vom Erhabenen'' ("Tendency, structure and sources of ''

On the Sublime ''On the Sublime'' ( ; ) is a Roman-era Greek work of literary criticism dated to the 1st century AD. Its author is unknown but is conventionally referred to as Longinus (; ) or Pseudo-Longinus. It is regarded as a classic work on aesthetics an ...

''" by

Longinus Longinus (Greek: Λογγίνος) is the name of the Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus with a lance, who in apostolic and some modern Christian traditions is described as a convert to Christianity. His name first appeared in the apoc ...

).Most widely held works by Hermann Mutschmann
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mutschmann. Hermann 1882 births 1918 deaths Writers from Essen German classical philologists University of Bonn alumni University of Kiel alumni Academic staff of the University of Königsberg German military personnel killed in World War I