Bruno Keil (8 July 1859 in

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– 23 March 1916 in

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) was a German classical philologist. He studied classical philology,

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and Germanistics in

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and

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, obtaining his doctorate in 1884 at the

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with a highly regarded thesis on

Isocrates Isocrates (; ; 436–338 BC) was an ancient Greek rhetorician, one of the ten Attic orators. Among the most influential Greek rhetoricians of his time, Isocrates made many contributions to rhetoric and education through his teaching and writte ...

. As a student, his influences were

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, Georg Kaibel and Rudolf Hercher. He took scientific travels to Italy, Spain and France, and beginning in 1888, worked at the Sophiengymnasium in Berlin. In 1890 he became an associate professor at the

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, where he gained a full professorship in 1901. From the autumn of 1913 until his death, he taught classes at the

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.Wirth, Peter, "Keil, Bruno"
in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 11 (1977), S. 402. In addition to Isocrates, his academic research including studies of the ancient rhetoricians

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and

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, the

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orator

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and the satirist

Lucian Lucian of Samosata (Λουκιανὸς ὁ Σαμοσατεύς, 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridi ...

. He made contributions in the fields of Greek

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matic poetry, Greek metrology and numismatics, and in his later years, he focused his energies towards ancient Greek epigraphy.

Selected works

* "Analectorum Isocrateorum Specimen", 1884. * "Analecta Isocratea", 1885. * ''Die solonische Verfassung in Aristoteles Verfassungsgeschichte Athens'', 1892 – The Solonian Constitution in

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's constitutional history of Athens. * "Aelii Aristidis Smyrnaei quae supersunt omnia", 1898 – edition of

. * ''Beiträge zur Geschichte des Areopags'', 1910 – Contributions to the history of the

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. * ''Über Lukians Phalarideen'', 1913 – On Lucian's Phalaris. * ''Anonymus argentinensis; fragmente zur geschichte des Perikleischen Athen aus einem Strassburger papyrus'', 1920 – Anonymous argentinensis, fragments on the history of Periclean Athens from a Strasbourg papyrus.IDREF.fr
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References

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