''Hermes'' (full title: ; ''Hermes: Bulletin for Classical Philology'') is a German periodical specialising in classical studies. Originally published by the Berlin publisher
Weidmann, it is now published by
Franz Steiner Verlag.
Its founding in 1866 was led by the ancient historian
Theodor Mommsen
Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (; ; 30 November 1817 – 1 November 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th ce ...
, who co-founded the publication with
Adolf Kirchhoff and
Rudolf Hercher. Its first editor, from 1866 until 1881, was the philologist
Emil Hübner: most of its early contributors, including Hübner, were pupils of the
Plautine scholar
Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl. As of 2024, it is edited by Hans Beck,
Martin Hose and Claudia Schindler.
On its release, the German scholar Wilhelm Wagner praised ''Hermes'' as a worthy rival to the , the oldest and then the dominant classical journal in the German-speaking world.
''Hermes'' is listed by
Scopus
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, where it has a
CiteScore
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of 0.2.
References
External links
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''Hermes'' on JSTOR
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Classics journals
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Academic journals established in 1866