Friedrich Marx (April 22, 1859 – October 17, 1941) was a German classical philologist born in Bessungen — today part of the city of

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. In 1877 he began his study of classical

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at the

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, then continued his education at the

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under Franz Bücheler (1837-1908) and Hermann Usener (1834-1905). In 1887 he achieved his habilitation in

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with Johannes Vahlen (1830-1911), afterwards working as a professor at the Universities of

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(1888-89),Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
biographical sketch

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(1889-93), Breslau (1893-96),

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(1896-99),

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(1899-1906) and finally at

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(1906-1927), where in 1917-18 he served as university rector. Marx is considered to be the last representative of the so-called Bonn school of classical philology, a scholastic entity that was initiated by Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl (1806-1876) in the 1840s. He was the author of numerous scholarly works, including editions of:

Plautus Titus Maccius Plautus ( ; 254 – 184 BC) was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by Livius Andro ...

' play "'' Rudens''" (1928), writings by the encyclopaedist

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(1915), Filastrius' "''Diversarum hereseon liber''" (1898), fragments from the satirist

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(1894-95) and a critical examination of "''

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''" (1894); the latter work being published over several editions up to the year 1993. From 1925 to 1934 he was editor of the journal ''Rheinisches Museum für Philologie'' ("Rhenish Museum for Philology").

References

* ''This article is based on a translation of an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia''.

External links

German Wikisource
bibliography of Friedrich Marx. {{DEFAULTSORT:Marx, Friedrich German classical philologists Writers from Darmstadt Academic staff of the University of Bonn Academic staff of Leipzig University 1859 births 1941 deaths