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HERAEUS, Wilhelm Carl

  • Wilhelm Carl Heraeus
  • Date of Birth: December 4, 1862
  • Born City: Hamm
  • Born State/Country: Germany
  • Parents: Carl Jessias, Gymansium principal and classicist, & Adelhelde Proebsting H.
  • Date of Death: June 4, 1938
  • Death City: Offenbach am Main
  • Death State/Country: Germany
  • Married: Julie Stamm, 1903
  • Education:

    Gymnasium Hammonense; study at Marburg 1881-3; Berlin, 1883; Ph.D., 1885; lic. 1888.
  • Dissertation:

    "Quaestiones criticae et paeleographicae de vetustissimis codicibus Livianis" (Ph.D., Berlin, 1885).
  • Professional Experience:

    Asst. teacher, Hanau Gymnasium, 1888-91; asst. teacher, Offenbach Gymnasium, 1891-8; prof. 1905-28; commissioned lectr., Akademie für Sozial- und Handelwissenschaften (Frankfurt am Main), 1908; hon. prof., Vulgar and Medieval Latin. 1914-29.
  • Publications:

    “Vindicianae Livianae I,” Progr. d. Gymnasiums zu Hanau (1889); II, Progr. d. Gymnasiums zu Offenbach am Main, (1892); “Spicilegium criticum in Valerio Maximo,” Fleckeisens Jb. f. klass. Philol., Supplementband 19 (Leipzig: Teubner, 1893) 579-635; “Zur lateinische Glossographie,” ALL 10 (1898) 507-22; Die Appendix Probi (Leipzig: Teubner, 1899); “Die Sprache Petrons und die Glosswen (Leipzig: Teubner, 1899); “Zur Kritik und Erklärung des Serviusscholien,” Hermes 34 (1899) 161-73; Die römische Soldatensprache,” ALL 12 (1902) 255-80; Index Graecolatinus(Leipzig: Teubner, 1903); “Zur Sprache d. Mulomedicina Chironis,” ALL 14 (1906) 119-24; “Tacitus und Sallust,” ALL 14 (1906) 273-76; Sammlung vulgärlateiniscer Texte, ed. with Heinrich Morf, 6 vols.  Heidelberg: Winter, 1908-23); Peregrinatio Aetheriae (1908; 2nd ed. 1921; 3rd ed. 1929); Ammiani Marcellini Rerum gestarum libri qui supersunt,Recensuit rhythmiceque distinxit Carolus U. Clark, adiuvantibus Ludovico Traube et Guilelmo Heraeo (Berlin: Weidmann, 1910-15); Titi Livi Ab urbe condita libri, editionem primam curavit G. Weissenborn; editio altera quam curavit G. Heraeus  (Leipzig: Teubner, 1912); Corpus glossiorum Latinorum, ed. George Götz’s recension of Gustave Loewe  and compilation od Index Graeco-Latinus (Leipzig & Berlin: Teubner, 1923); F. Buecheler, Petronii arbitri Satirarum reliquiae, 5th ed. rev. (Berlin: Weidmann, 1912; 6th ed. 1922); Titus Livius Ab urbe condita (Leipzig: Teubner, 1914); Franz Fügner, Des Titus Livius Römische Geschichte seit Gründung der Stadt, 4th ed. rev. (Leipzig: Teubner 1914-16); Petronii Cena Trimalchionis nebst ausgewählten pompejanischen Wandinschriften (Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1923); M. Valeri Martialis Epigrammaton libri (Leipzig: Teubner, 1925); “Zur neueren Martialkritik,” RhM n.f. 74 (1925) 314-36; Silviae vel potius Aetheriae peregrinato ad loca sancta (Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1929).

    Kleine Schriften von Wilhelm Heraeus, ed. J. B. Hofmann, (Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1937).
  • Notes:

    Wilhelm Heraeus studied the vulgar speech of Imperial Rome, noting expressions common to soldiers and found in the work of Petronius and Martial. From his father he inherited a love for Roman historians, which led to his revision of the second volume of the fourth edition of his father’s school text of Tacitus’s Historiae (1899). He collaborated with Columbia’s Charles Upson Clark (1875-1960) on his edition of Ammianus Marcellinus (1910-15), revised the fifth edition of Wilhelm Weissenborn’s (1803-78) Livy, and Franz Buecheler’s (1837-1908) edition of Petronius. He edited George Götz’s (1849-1932) recension of Gustave Loewe’s (1852-83) Corpus glossiorum Latinorum and contributed to that project an Index Graeco-Latinus. Beginning in 1908 he co-edited with the Swiss linguist Heinrich Morf (1854-1921) Sammlung vulgäriat Texte. He prepared an edition of the recently (1884) discovered earliest Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Peregrinatio Aetheriae. In service to his professor, Theodore Mommsen (1817-1903), he proofread for the TLL from 1924. 
  • Sources:

    Sandys, 3:201; J.B. Hofan, BBJ (1940); Gerhard Baader NDB (1969) 571-2.
  • Author: Ward Briggs