Education:
Francofurtanum Gymnasium, 1862; Bonn; Ph.D., Göttingen, 1865; lic. German, history, Latin, Greek; habilitation, 1869
Dissertation:
"Questions Herodianae" (Ph.D., Bonn, 1866)
Professional Experience:
Teacher, Kortegan Institute, Bonn, 1865-8; privatdocent, Bonn, 1869-74; ordinarius, Greifswald, 1874-6; Halle, 1876-91; rector, 1889-90.
Publications:
Eratosthenis Carminum Reliquiæ (Leipzig: Teubner, 1872); De Aristophanis avium locis quibusdam commentatio (Greifswald: Kunike, 1875); Theonis Smyrnæi Expositio Rerum Mathematicarum ad Legendum Platonem Utilium, (Leipzig: Teubner, 1878); Hermann Fritzsche's Theokrits Gedichte (Leipzig: Teubner, 1881); Albii Tibulli Elegiæ (Leipzig: Teubner, 1885); Beiträge zur Textgeschichte der Griechischen Bukoliker, (Leipzig: Teubner, 1888) Bergk's "Poetæ Lyrici Græci," vols. ii. and iii. (4th ed. Leipzig: Teubner, 1882), and the "Anthologia Lyrica" 4th ed. (Leipzig: Teubner, 1897).
Notes:
Eduard Hiller received early encouragement to study the myths and literature of antiquity from his mother. When he got to Bonn, his classmates included Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and Nietzsche’s close friend the Hellenist Erwin Rohde (1845-98). After teaching at the Gymnasium level, he secured a position at Greifswald before succeeding Gottfried Bernhardy (1800-75) at Halle. His successor at Greifswald was Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848-1931). In addition to editing Greek texts of Alexandrian poetry and the dramas of Eratosthenes (1872) (his only edition of a Latin poet is Tibullus), he edited Hermann Fritzsche’s (1818-78) Theocritus (1881) and later published his own notes on the text (1882). He also edited volumes 2 and 3 of the fourth edition of his late Halle colleague Theodor Bergk’s (1812-81) Poetae lyrici graeci (1882), and the fourth edition of Bergk’s Anthologia lyrica (1890).
Sources:
Carl Häberlin, Biographisches Jahrbuch für Alterthumskunde. 14. Jahrgang (1892) 83–113; Chronicle of the University Halle (1890-1) 5-12.
