Adolf Schöll

Gustav Adolf Schöll (2 September 1805 in Brünn 26 May 1882 in Jena) was a German art historian, archaeologist and classical philologist.

Adolf Schöll (date unknown)

Biography

He studied at the universities of Tübingen and Göttingen, obtaining his habilitation at Berlin in 1833. In June 1837 he was appointed professor of rhetoric, classical philology, aesthetics and art history at the University of Dorpat. In 1839/40, with Karl Otfried Müller, he participated in a study trip to Italy and Greece.

In 1842, he was named an associate professor of archaeology at the University of Halle and, the following year, became Director of the Grand Ducal art collections and the Weimar Princely Free Drawing School in Weimar. In 1861, he was appointed head of the Grand Ducal Library and retired from his position at the drawing school.[1][2]

Also in 1842, he married Johanna Henle (1816-1894), sister of the pathologist, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle. They had a daughter and four sons; including the classical philologists, Rudolf Schöll and Fritz Schöll.

Selected works

  • Herodot's von Halikarnass Geschichte, 1828 Herodotus of Halicarnassus.
  • Beiträge zur Kenntniss der tragischen Poesie der Griechen, 1839 On the tragic poetry of the Greeks.
  • Sophokles, sein Leben und Wirken, 1842 Sophocles, his life and work.
  • Archaeologische Mittheilungen aus Griechenland, 1843 (with Karl Otfried Müller) Archaeological communications from Greece.
  • Der Cyklop : ein Satyrspiel, 1851 (by Euripides; German edition) The Cyclops, a satyr play.
  • Gründlicher Unterricht über die Tetralogie des attischen Theaters und die Kompositionsweise des Sophokles, 1859 On the tetralogy of the Attic theater and the compositional style of Sophocles.
  • Gesammelte Aufsätze zur klassischen Literatur alter und neuerer Zeit, 1884 Collected essays on classical literature of ancient and modern times.
  • Goethe in hauptzügen seines lebens und wirkens, 1889 Goethe in the main features of his life and work.[3][4]

References

  1. ADB:Schöll, Adolph In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, S. 218–224.
  2. Schöll, (Gustav) Adolf (1805-1882) Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon und biographische Dokumentation
  3. HathiTrust Digital Library published works
  4. Adolf Schöll Open Library
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