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HOLZINGER von WEIDICH, Carl

  • Carl Holzinger von Weidlich
  • Date of Birth: July 24, 1849
  • Born City: Weltrus
  • Born State/Country: Germany (now Veltrusy, Czech Republic)
  • Parents: Carl Holzinger von Weidlich, gymnasium director, Görz, and school inspector, Graz, & wife.
  • Date of Death: September 17, 1935.
  • Death City: Prague
  • Death State/Country: Czech Republic
  • Education:

    Görz Gymnasium; Vienna, 1867-9; lic., Graz, 1871; Ph.D., Vienna, 1879.
  • Dissertation:

    "Archarniensum vss. 463, 507, 860-970 " (Ph.D., Vienna: 1879);.
  • Professional Experience:

    Substitute teacher, Theresianum, Vienna, 1871-2; full-time teacher 1872-5; professor, 1875-83; extraordinarius, Prague, 1883-7; ordinarius, 1887-1921; dean, 1895-6; rector, 1899-1900; dir., examination Committee for School Teachers, 1910-21; memb., Society for the Promotion of German Science and Art, Prague; corr. memb., Academy of Sciences, Vienna.  
  • Publications:

    De verborum lusu apud Aristophanem (Vienna: A. Hoelder, 1876); Ausgewählte komödien des Aristophanes, 3rd ed. with Theodor Kock (Berlin: Ritter, 1881); “Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Ravennasscholien zu Aristophanes,” WS 4 (1882) 1-32; Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Venetusscholien zu Aristophanes WS 5 (1883) = 205-23; Olympia (Vienna: L. Mayer, 1883); Nemesii Emeseni libri πεϱὶ φύσεως άνθϱώπου versio Latina (Leipzig: G. Freytag, 1887); Exegetische und kritische Bemerkungen zu Euripides Alkestis (Vienna: Tempsky, 1891); Ein Idyll des Maximus Planudes, ZOEG  = Vienna: Gerold, 1893); Lycophron’s Alexandra: griecisch und Deutsch (Leipzig: Teubner, 1895); “Über Zweck, Veranlassung und Datierung des Platon. Phaidros,” in Festschrift für J. Vahlen, 1900; Bericht über die literatur der griechischen komödie aus den Jahren 1892-1901 (Leipzig: O.R. Reisland, 1903); Sur la date de quelques manuscrits d’Aristophane (Paris: Champion, 1910); Die Aristophaneshandschriften der Viener Hofbibliothek: Ein Beitrag zur Systematik der Aristophaneshandschriften, 2 vols. (Vienna: Alfred Holder, 1911, 1913); “Ein Panegyrikus des Manuel Philes,” BZ 20 (1911) 384-7; Erklärungen umstrittener Stellen des Aristophanes, 2 vols. (Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1928-33); Erklärungen zu einigen der umstrittensten Stellen der Offenbarung Johannis und der Sibyllin. Orakel, (Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1936); Vorstudien zur Beurteilung der Erklärertätigkeit des Demetrios Triklinios zu den Komödien des Aristophanes (Vienna: Holder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1939). Ein Kritisch-exegetischer Kommentar zu Aristophanes Plutos(Vienna: Holder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1940).
  • Notes:

    Carl Holzinger‘s father also Carl (1810-86) was a teacher who was employed as a private docent by Rudolf, Count Chotek of Chotkow and Wognin (1822-1903). In 1878 the emperor Franz Joseph 1 (1830-1916) ennobled him as a knight of Weidich and the title passed to his son. After secondary school at his father’s gymnasium, he studied under Johannes Vahlen (1830-1911) at Vienna and later at Graz under Karl Schenkl.  He devoted the bulk of his career to Aristophanes.  He revised Theodore Kock’s (1820-1901) four-volume edition of Aristophanes (1852-64) in 1881. His work centered on the manuscripts which he transcribed during his many tours of European centers. Despite his lack of an habilitation, his work on Aristophanes gained him an appointment at Prague, where he remained for the rest of his career. He published an edition of Lycophron’s Alexandria His early work on Aristophanes led him to work on a complete edition of the comedies, but as he became overwhelmed by his teaching and university governance responsibilities, he never completed it. 
  • Sources:

    J. Jühner, AWAW 86 (1936) 331-47; T. Hopfner, BBJ 58 (1938) 1-12; bibl. 13-14; ÖBL 1815–1950, Vol. 2 (Fasc. 10, 1959), pp. 410 f., autobiography in the Archive of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna.
  • Author: Ward Briggs