Friedrich Karl Vollmer (14 November 1867, in Fingscheid, now part of

Wuppertal Wuppertal (; ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany, with a population of 355,000. Wuppertal is the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and List of cities in Germany by population, 17th-largest in Germany. It ...

– 21 September 1923, in

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) 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, ...

who specialized in Latin studies. He studied classical philology at the universities of

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and

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, receiving his doctorate in 1892. After graduation, he worked as a gymnasium teacher in

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and

and, in 1895, was named director of the German School in

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. In 1899, he relocated to

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, where he was appointed head of the ''

Thesaurus Linguae Latinae The ''Thesaurus Linguae Latinae'' (abbreviated as ''ThLL'' or ''TLL'') is a monumental dictionary of Latin founded on historical principles. It encompasses the Latin language from the time of its origin to the time of Isidore of Seville (die ...

'', a project that was initiated by

Eduard Wölfflin Eduard Wölfflin (1 January 1831 – 8 November 1908) was a Swiss classical philologist. He was the father of art historian Heinrich Wölfflin. Biography Eduard Wölfflin was born in Basel on 1 January 1831. From 1848 to 1854, he studied at ...

. In 1905, he became a full professor of classical philology at the

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and, during the following year, a member of the

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Selected works

* ''Das Nibelungenlied erläutert und gewürdigt'', 1894 – The ''

Nibelungenlied The (, or ; or ), translated as ''The Song of the Nibelungs'', is an epic poetry, epic poem written around 1200 in Middle High German. Its anonymous poet was likely from the region of Passau. The is based on an oral tradition of Germanic hero ...

'' explained and appreciated. * ''Goethes Egmont'', 1895 –

Goethe Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on Western literature, literary, Polit ...

's '' Egmont''. * ''P. Papinii Statii Silvarum libri'', 1898 – edition of

Publius Papinius Statius Publius Papinius Statius ( Greek: Πόπλιος Παπίνιος Στάτιος; , ; ) was a Latin poet of the 1st century CE. His surviving poetry includes an epic in twelve books, the ''Thebaid''; a collection of occasional poetry, the '' ...

. * ''Goethes Torquato Tasso'', 1899 – Goethe's ''

Torquato Tasso Torquato Tasso ( , also , ; 11 March 154425 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem ''Gerusalemme liberata'' (Jerusalem Delivered), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between ...

''. * ''Fl. Merobaudis reliquiae. Blossii Aemilii Dracontii Carmina. Eugenii Toletani episcopi Carmina et epistulae'', 1905 ( Flavius Merobaudes, Dracontius, Eugenius of Toledo In:

Monumenta Germaniae Historica The (Latin for "Historical Monuments of Germany"), frequently abbreviated MGH, is a comprehensive series of carefully edited and published primary sources, both chronicle and archival, for the study of parts of Northwestern, Central and Souther ...

: Auctores antiquissimi XIV). * ''Q. Horati Flacci Carmina'', 1907-12 – editions of

Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), Suetonius, Life of Horace commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). Th ...

. * , 1910ff. (after

Emil Baehrens Paul Heinrich Emil Baehrens (24 September 1848, in Bayenthal – 26 September 1888, in Groningen) was a German classical scholar. After completing his studies he became ''Privatdozent'' at Jena. In 1877 he was appointed ordinary professor at the U ...

'). * ''Inscriptiones Baivariae Romanae sive inscriptiones Prov. Raetiae adiectis aliquot Noricis Italicisque'', 1915. * ''Quinti Sereni Liber medicinalis'', 1916 (

Serenus Sammonicus Quintus Serenus Sammonicus (died 212) was a Roman savant and tutor to Geta and Caracalla who became fatally involved in politics; he was also author of a didactic medical poem, ''Liber Medicinalis'' ("The Medical Book"; also known as ''De medicin ...

In: Corpus Medicorum Latinorum II). * ''Römische Metrik'', 1923 In:

Alfred Gercke Karl Friedrich August Alfred Gercke (20 March 1860, Hannover – 26 January 1922, Breslau) was a German classical philologist. He is known for his research pertaining to the history of Greek philosophy, in particular, Hellenistic philosophy, ...

Eduard Norden Eduard Norden (21 September 1868 – 13 July 1941) was a German classicist, classical philologist and historian of religion. When Norden received an honorary doctorate from Harvard University, Harvard, James Bryant Conant referred to him as "the ...

: ''Einleitung in die Altertumswissenschaft'' – Roman metrics.Friedrich Vollmer
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References

1867 births 1923 deaths Writers from Wuppertal Humboldt University of Berlin alumni University of Bonn alumni Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich German classical philologists German Latinists {{Germany-academic-bio-stub