Rudolf Hirzel (20 March 1846,

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- 30 December 1917,

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) was a German

classical scholar 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 literature, Ancient Greek and Roman literature and ...

, and author of a number of major books on Greek law,

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s and names. He was the second son of Solomon Hirzel, the owner of a publishing house in Leipzig. He was educated at the Thomasschule in Leipzig and went to study Classics in Heidelberg, Göttingen (with Hermann Sauppe) and, lastly, Berlin, where he graduated in 1868 (with Moriz Haupt). Hirzel married Dorothea Hirzel, née Springer, on 14 March 1887. They had no children. In Jena Rudolf Hirzel lived in the same house as

Gottlob Frege Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (; ; 8 November 1848 – 26 July 1925) was a German philosopher, logician, and mathematician. He was a mathematics professor at the University of Jena, and is understood by many to be the father of analytic philos ...

and it has been conjectured that his studies in ancient logic may have influenced him.Susanne Bobzien (2024) ''Frege, Hirzel, and Stoic logic'', History and Philosophy of Logic, 45:4, 394-413, DOI: 10.1080/01445340.2024.2333141

Works

* ''De Bonis in fine Philebi enumeratis'' Dissertatio inauguralis. Leipzig 29.07.1868 * ''Untersuchungen zu Cicero's philosophischen Schriften'' 3 vols. (1877–1883) * ''De logica Stoicorum''. in: Satura philologa. Hermanno Sauppio obtulit amicorum conlegarum decas. (1879) pp. 61–78. * ''Der Dialog. Ein literarhistorischer Versuch'' (1895) * ''Der Eid, ein beitrag zu seiner Geschichte'' (1902) * ''Themis, Dike und Verwandtes. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Rechtsidee bei den Griechen'' (1907) * ''Die Strafe der Steinigung'' (1909) * ''Plutarch'' (1912) * ''Die Person. Begriff und Name derselben im Altertum'' (1914) * ''Der Name. Ein Beitrag zu seiner Geschichte im Altertum und besonders bei den Griechen'' (1918)

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