Siegfried Sudhaus (9 July 1863 in

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– 22 October 1914 near Bixschoote, Belgium) 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, ...

, known for his scholarly treatment of

Menander Menander (; ; c. 342/341 – c. 290 BC) was a Greek scriptwriter and the best-known representative of Athenian Ancient Greek comedy, New Comedy. He wrote 108 comedies and took the prize at the Lenaia festival eight times. His record at the Cit ...

and

Philodemus Philodemus of Gadara (, ''Philodēmos'', "love of the people"; – prob. or 35 BC) was an Epicurean philosopher and poet. He studied under Zeno of Sidon in Athens, before moving to Rome, and then to Herculaneum. He was once known chiefly for h ...

. He studied classical philology at the universities of

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and

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, and from 1892 worked as a schoolteacher at the municipal gymnasium in

. In 1898 he received his

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for classical philology, and afterwards, by way of a travel scholarship from the

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, he embarked on a study trip to Greece. In 1901 he was named a professor of classical philology at the

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, where in 1912/13 he served as academic rector. Among his better known students at Kiel was

papyrologist Papyrology is the study of manuscripts of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, etc., preserved on portable media from antiquity, the most common form of which is papyrus, the principal writing material in the ancient civilizations ...

Christian Cornelius Jensen. As a volunteer in World War I, he died on 22 October 1914 near the town of Bixschoote in

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(

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Published works

* ''Prolegomena ad Philodemi Rhetorica'', 1892. * ''Philodemi Volumina rhetorica edidit'', 1892 * ''Philodemi Volumina rhetorica edidit'' (supplement), 1895. * ''Aetna''. In: Sammlung wissenschaftlicher Commentare zu griechischen und römischen Schriftstellern, 1898. * ''Der Aufbau der Plautinischen Cantica'', 1909 – The structure of Plautine

canticle In the context of Christian liturgy, a canticle (from the Latin ''canticulum'', a diminutive of ''canticum'', "song") is a psalm-like song with biblical lyrics taken from elsewhere than the Book of Psalms, but included in psalters and books su ...

s. * ''Menandri Reliquiae nuper repertae'', 1914. * ''Menanderstudien'', 1914 – Menander studies.Siegfried Sudhaus
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sudhaus, Siegfried 1863 births 1914 deaths People from Trzebiatów University of Bonn alumni Humboldt University of Berlin alumni Academic staff of the University of Kiel German classical philologists German papyrologists German military personnel killed in World War I