Ernst Maass


Ernst Maass was a German classical philologist.
From 1875 he studied at the universities of Tübingen and Greifswald, receiving his doctorate in 1879 as a student of Ulrich [von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff]. After graduation, he took an extended study trip to Italy, Paris and London, and afterwards qualified as a lecturer in Berlin with the habilitation-thesis Analecta Eratosthenica. In 1886, he was named a professor at the University of Greifswald, and from 1895 to 1924, served as a professor and director of the philological seminary at the University of Marburg. He was rector at the university in 1910–1911.

Selected works

  • Arati Phaenomena.
  • Commentatio mythographica, 1886.
  • De Attali Rhodii fragmentis Arateis commentatio, 1888.
  • Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem Townleyana.
  • Parerga Attica, 1889.
  • De Aeschyli Supplicibus commentatio, 1890.
  • De tribus Philetae carminibus, 1895.
  • Orpheus; Untersuchungen zur griechischen, römischen, altchristlichen Jenseitsdichtung und Religion, 1895 - Orpheus: Investigations of Greek, Roman and early Christian afterlife literature and religion.
  • De Lenaeo et Delphinio commentatio, 1896.
  • Commentariorum in Aratum reliquiae, 1898.
  • Analecta sacra et profana, 1901.
  • Die Tagesgötter in Rom und den Provinzen, aus der Kultur des Niederganges der antiken Welt, 1902 - The Tagesgötter in Rome and the provinces.
  • Griechen und Semiten auf dem Isthmus von Korinth, 1903 - Greeks and Semites on the Isthmus of Corinth.
  • Goethe und die antike, 1912 - Goethe and antiquity.