Georg Busolt: His Career in His Letters

Chambers, Mortimer H./ Chambers, Mortimer H. (Editor)/ Busolt, Georg

ISBN 10: 9004092250 / ISBN 13: 9789004092259

Published by Brill Academic Pub, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Georg Busolt: His Career in His Letters
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004092250
• ISBN 13: 9789004092259
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.5 kilograms

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Synopsis

This book is a study of Georg Busolt (1850-1920), a noted German historian of classical Greece. The treatment is based on a collection of his own letters, mainly written to other scholars.
Over 100 letters from Busolt to others are collected and edited here. Each letter, in the original German, is presented with commentary and the whole is woven into a chronological narrative and survey of Busolt's career. There are four chapters (The Busolt Family; Königsberg; Kiel, Göttingen), the last three corresponding to the universities where he studied and taught.
Despite Busolt's eminence and the continued usefulness of his two great handbooks (Griechische Geschichte; Griechische Staatskunde), nothing has ever been written about him. Moreover, the narrative gives a picture of Prussian universities and academic issues during his period - a crucial one for the development of German education - and is thus a contribution to the history of scholarship.

About the Author

Mortimer Chambers obtained his Ph.D. at Harvard University. Publications: Aristotelis Athenaion Politeia (Greek text in Bibliotheca Teubneriana, Leipzig 1986); articles in classical journals.