Isidor Hilberg (May 28, 1852, at Byelaya Tzerkov,

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– October 28, 1919, in Vienna), was a

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. In 1856 he went with his parents to

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, where he received his early education. Subsequently he studied classical philology at the

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under Vahlen, Gomperz, Emanuel Hoffmann, and Hartel (Ph.D. 1874). In 1875, he studied for half a year in

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, and became ''

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'' in classical philology at the University of Vienna in 1877. In 1879 he was appointed assistant professor at

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, and in 1882 professor at the University of Czernowitz, of which he was "Rector Magnificus" in 1898. He is now best known for his three-volume edition of the letters of St.

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in the

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Works

*"Eustathii Macrembolitæ Protonobilissimi de Hysmines et Hysminiæ Amoribus Libri xi." Vienna, 1876. *"Epistula Critica ad Joannem Vahlenum de Nonnullis Scriptorum Græcorum et Romanorum Locis Emendandis Explicandisve," Vienna, 1877. *"Das Gesetz der trochäischen Wortformen im Dactylischen, Hexameter und Pentameter der Griechen vom 7. Jahrh. v. Chr. bis zum Untergang der Griechischen Poesie," Vienna, 1878. *"Das Princip der Silbenwägung und die daraus entspringenden Gesetze der Endsilben in der griechischen Poesie," Vienna, 1879. *"Die Gesetze der Wortstellung im Pentameter des Ovid," Leipzig, 1894. *"Philologie und Naturwissenschaft" (his discourse when appointed rector) Czernowitz, 1898. *(ed.) "Sancti Eusebii Hieronymi Epistulae," Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, 54–56. Vienna, 1910-1918.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hilberg, Isidor 1852 births Emigrants from the Russian Empire Immigrants to the Austrian Empire Scholars from Austria-Hungary Classical scholars of the University of Vienna 1919 deaths Academic staff of Chernivtsi University