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'''Hermann Usener''' ([[1834]]-[[1905]]) was a German scholar in the fields of [[philology]] and [[comparative religion]]. He became professor at the [[University of Bonn]] |
'''Hermann Usener''' ([[1834]]-[[1905]]) was a German scholar in the fields of [[philology]] and [[comparative religion]]. He became professor at the [[University of Bonn]] |
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A large-scale thinker, he was influential in areas such as concept formation in religion.<ref>See Antje Wessels, ''Zur Rezeption von Hermann Useners Lehre von der religiösen Begriffsbildung''.</ref>, as well as in scholarship and through his students.<ref>[http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2004/2004-02-43.html]:''...Hermann Usener at Bonn, who combined comparative ethnological analysis with phenomenological hermeneutics, trained an impressive list of pupils''.<ref>[[Camille Paglia]][http://www.bu.edu/arion/Volume13/13.3/Camille/Paglia.htm] identifies a ''150-year-long dynasty of German scholars following the idealizing [[Winckelmann]], such as Hermann Usener, [[Werner Jaeger]], and [[Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff]], who bitterly warred over the character and methodology of classical studies.''</ref> One such was [[Friedrich Nietzche]]: after initial support, Usener wrote him off as a scholar after ''[[The Birth of Tragedy]]'' was published. |
A large-scale thinker, he was influential in areas such as concept formation in religion.<ref>See Antje Wessels, ''Zur Rezeption von Hermann Useners Lehre von der religiösen Begriffsbildung''.</ref>, as well as in scholarship and through his students.<ref>[http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2004/2004-02-43.html]:''...Hermann Usener at Bonn, who combined comparative ethnological analysis with phenomenological hermeneutics, trained an impressive list of pupils''.</ref>[[Camille Paglia]][http://www.bu.edu/arion/Volume13/13.3/Camille/Paglia.htm] identifies a ''150-year-long dynasty of German scholars following the idealizing [[Winckelmann]], such as Hermann Usener, [[Werner Jaeger]], and [[Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff]], who bitterly warred over the character and methodology of classical studies.''</ref> One such was [[Friedrich Nietzche]]: after initial support, Usener wrote him off as a scholar after ''[[The Birth of Tragedy]]'' was published. |
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Hermann Usener (1834-1905) was a German scholar in the fields of philology and comparative religion. He became professor at the University of Bonn
A large-scale thinker, he was influential in areas such as concept formation in religion.[1], as well as in scholarship and through his students.[2]Camille Paglia[7] identifies a 150-year-long dynasty of German scholars following the idealizing Winckelmann, such as Hermann Usener, Werner Jaeger, and Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, who bitterly warred over the character and methodology of classical studies.</ref> One such was Friedrich Nietzche: after initial support, Usener wrote him off as a scholar after The Birth of Tragedy was published.
His works include:
- Analecta Theophrastea (1858 dissertation at Bonn)
- Alexandri Aphrodisiensis problematorum lib. III. et IV. (1859)
- Götternamen
- Scholia in Lucani bellum civile (1869)
- Anecdoton Holderi (1877)
- Legenden der heiligen Pelagia (1879)
- De Stephano Alexandrino (1880)
- Jacob Bernays, Gesammelte Abhandlungen (1885) editor
- Acta S. Marinae et S. Christophori (1886)
- Epicurea (1887)
- Altgriechischer Versbau (1887)
- Religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen (1889)
- Die Sintfluthsagen untersucht (1899)
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus edition, begun 1904, with Ludwig Radermacher
His students included Hermann Diels[3], Paul Natorp, Hans Lietzmann[4], Albrecht Dieterich and Richard Reitzenstein[5], and Aby Warburg[6]
Reference
- Roland Kany, Hermann Usener as Historian of Religion. In: Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 6 (2004) S. 159-176.
Notes
- ^ See Antje Wessels, Zur Rezeption von Hermann Useners Lehre von der religiösen Begriffsbildung.
- ^ [1]:...Hermann Usener at Bonn, who combined comparative ethnological analysis with phenomenological hermeneutics, trained an impressive list of pupils.
- ^ PDF, p.4 and later; [2].
- ^ [3]
- ^ [4]
- ^ [5], [6].