Karl Dilthey

Karl Dilthey

Karl Dilthey (18 March 1839, Biebrich – 4 March 1907, Göttingen) was a German classical scholar and archaeologist.

After studying at Breslau and Bonn, Dilthey — younger brother of the renowned philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey — travelled to Greece. After being privatdozent at Bonn until 1866/67, he moved to Rome and in 1869 to Zurich, where he was appointed a full professor of classical philology and archaeology. In 1878 he moved to Göttingen as a full professor of classical philology, later archaeology. He became director to the archaeologic-numismatic collections of the University and a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences.

Published works

• "De Callimachi Cydippa", 1863.
• "Analecta Callimachea", 1865.
• Novellen und Erzählungen, 1872 – Novellas and short stories (3 volumes).
• "Observationes criticae in anthologiam graecam additae sunt", 1878.
• "Adduntur epigrammata graeca in muris picta duo tabulis lithographis expressa", 1879.
• "De epigrammatum graecorum syllogis quibusdam minoribus commentatio", 1887.
• "Symbolae criticae ad anthologiam graecam ex libris manu scriptis petitae", 1891.^[1]
• Otfried Müller, 1898 – On Otfried Müller (1797–1840); from a lecture given at the Georg-Augusts-Universität on December 1, 1897.^[2]

Further reading

• Dilthey, Karl. In: Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie, vol. 2, p. 578