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Theodor Gomperz
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<h2 id="biography">Biography</h2> <p>Gomperz studied at Brno and at <a href="/facts/University_of_Vienna/sc4vUUe8">Vienna</a> under <a href="/facts/Hermann_Bonitz/Xg2JIUfe">Hermann Bonitz</a>. Graduating at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Vienna/sc4vUUe8">University of Vienna</a> in 1867 he became <i><a href="/facts/Privatdozent/Cd6m1pFt">privatdozent</a></i>, and subsequently a professor of <a href="/facts/Classical_philology/CXF1ltbH">classical philology</a> (1873). In 1882 he was elected a full member of the <a href="/facts/Vienna_Academy_of_Sciences/P67J0c7A">Vienna Academy of Sciences</a>. He received the degree of <a href="/facts/Doctor_of_Philosophy/paJumdN8">Doctor of Philosophy</a> <i><a href="/facts/Honoris_causa/yVVgQ6Wt">honoris causa</a></i> from the <a href="/facts/University_of_K%25C3%25B6nigsberg/3NL3eavc">University of Königsberg</a>, and Doctor of Literature from the universities of <a href="/facts/University_of_Dublin/luLvuVc5">Dublin</a> and <a href="/facts/University_of_Cambridge/0la7aX9o">Cambridge</a>, and became correspondent for several learned societies.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> </p><p>Gomperz resigned his professorship at Vienna in order to devote all his energy to his magnum opus <i>Griechische Denker</i> ("Greek Thinkers"), which first appeared in 1893.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p><p>He died in <a href="/facts/Baden_bei_Wien/IJhH1QCM">Baden bei Wien</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="works">Works</h2> <ul><li><i>Demosthenes der Staatsmann</i> (1864)</li> <li><i>Philodemi de ira liber</i> (1864)</li> <li><i>Traumdeutung und Zauberei</i> (1866)</li> <li><i>Herculanische Studien</i> (1865–1866)</li> <li><i>Beiträge zur Kritik und Erklärung griech. Schriftsteller</i> (7 vols, 1875–1900)</li> <li><i>Neue Bruchstücke Epikurs</i> (1876)</li> <li><i>Die Bruchstücke der griech. Tragiker und Cobets neueste kritische Manier</i> (1878)</li> <li><i>Herodoteische Studien</i> (1883)</li> <li><i>Ein bisher unbekannies griech. Schriftsystem</i> (1884)</li> <li><i>Zu Philodems Büchern von der Musik</i> (1885)</li> <li><i>Über den Abschluß des herodoteischen Geschichtswerkes</i> (1886)</li> <li><i>Platonische Aufsätze</i> (3 vols, 1887–1905)</li> <li><i>Zu Heraklits Lehre und den Überresten seines Werkes</i> (1887)</li> <li><i>Zu Aristoteles' Poëtik</i> (2 parts, 1888–1896)</li> <li><i>Über die Charaktere Theophrasts</i> (1888)</li> <li><i>Nachlese zu den Bruchstücken der griechischen Tragiker</i> (1888)</li> <li><i>Die Apologie der Heilkunst</i> (1890)</li> <li><i>Philodem und die ästhetischen Schriften der herculanischen Bibliothek</i> (1891)</li> <li><i>Die Schrift vom Staatswesen der Athener</i> (1891)</li> <li><i>Die jüngst entdeckten Überreste einer den platonischen Phädon enthaltenden Papyrusrolle</i> (1892)</li> <li><i>Aus der Hekale des Kallimachos</i> (1893)</li> <li><i>Griechische Denker. Eine Geschichte der antiken Philosophie</i> (Three volumes, 1896, 1902, 1909)</li> <li><i>Essays und Erinnerungen</i> (1905)</li> <li><i>Die Apologie der Heilkunst. Eine griechische Sophistenrede des 5. vorchristlichen Jahrhunderts</i> (1910)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li> <li><i>Hellenika. Eine Auswahl philologischer und philosophiegeschichtlicher kleiner Schriften</i> (1912)</li></ul> <p>Gomperz supervised a translation of <a href="/facts/John_Stuart_Mill/0QxUR9l7">John Stuart Mill</a>'s complete works (12 vols., Leipzig, 1869–1880), and wrote a life (Vienna, 1889) of Mill. His <i>Griechische Denker: Geschichte der antiken Philosophie</i> (vols. i. and ii., Leipzig, 1893 and 1902) was translated into English by L. Magnus (vol. i., 1901).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> Volumes ii & iii were translated into English by G. G. Berry.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p><p><a href="/facts/Lewis_Campbell_(classicist)/kRSBaHUh">Lewis Campbell</a> gives an overview of Gomperz as writer and scholar in <i><a href="/facts/The_Hibbert_Journal/dxWGqDfC">The Hibbert Journal</a></i>, 5:2, January 1907, pp. 439–448. </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://www.biographien.ac.at/oebl/oebl_G/Gomperz_Theodor_1832_1912.xml">"Gomperz, Theodor (1832-1912), Altphilologe und Historiker"</a>. Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon und biographische Dokumentation. Retrieved 6 November 2023.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Albin_Lesky/8AFlkpyQ">Lesky, Albin</a>. <a href="https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz31734.html#ndbcontent">"Gomperz, Theodor: klassischer Philologe und Erforscher der antiken Philosophiegeschichte, * 29.3.1832 Brünn, † 29.8.1912 Baden bei Wien. (israelitisch)"</a> (in German). Deutsche Biographie. Retrieved 6 November 2023.</li> <li><a href="https://archive.org/stream/greekthinkersah04gompgoog#page/n8/mode/2up">Greek Thinkers Vol. I</a></li> <li><a href="https://archive.org/stream/greekthinkersvol002439mbp#page/n7/mode/2up">Greek Thinkers Vol. II</a></li> <li><a href="https://archive.org/stream/greekthinkersah00gompgoog#page/n8/mode/2up">Greek Thinkers Vol. III</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%28subject%3A%22Gomperz%2C%20Theodor%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Theodor%20Gomperz%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Gomperz%2C%20Theodor%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Theodor%20Gomperz%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Gomperz%2C%20T%2E%22%20OR%20title%3A%22Theodor%20Gomperz%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Gomperz%2C%20Theodor%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Theodor%20Gomperz%22%29%20OR%20%28%221832-1912%22%20AND%20Gomperz%29%29%20AND%20%28-mediatype:software%29">Works by or about Theodor Gomperz</a> at the <a href="/facts/Internet_Archive/PHStU8Lo">Internet Archive</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gomperz, Theodor". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 230. <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" target="_blank">/wiki/Public_domain</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Gomperz, Theodor by: Isidore Singer. at Jewish Encyclopedia <a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6802-gomperz-theodor" target="_blank">http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6802-gomperz-theodor</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Gomperz, Theodor". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 31 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. p. 298. <a href="https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri31chisrich/page/298/mode/1up" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri31chisrich/page/298/mode/1up</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gomperz, Theodor". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 230. <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" target="_blank">/wiki/Public_domain</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gomperz, Theodor". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 230. <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" target="_blank">/wiki/Public_domain</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"Review of Greek Thinkers by Theodor Gomperz, Vols. I–III". The Athenaeum (4044): 520–521. April 29, 1905. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=W4vs4AYf5rUC&pg=520" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=W4vs4AYf5rUC&pg=520</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>