Hans von Arnim

Hans von Arnim was a German-Austrian classical philologist, who specialized in studies of Plato and Aristotle.
He studied classical philology at the University of Greifswald as a pupil of Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorf. From 1881 to 1888 he worked as a schoolteacher in Elberfeld and Bonn, then obtained his habilitation in 1888 from the University of Halle. In 1893 he became a full professor at Rostock, then in 1900 was appointed chair of Greek philology at the University of Vienna as a successor to Theodor Gomperz. In 1914 he relocated as a professor to the newly founded University of Frankfurt, and in 1921 returned to the University of Vienna.
He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1919.

Selected works

Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta. 4 volumes, Leipzig 1903–05, 1924 - Fragments of the ancient Stoics..Sprachliche Forschungen zur Chronologie der Platonischen Dialoge, 1912 - Linguistic research on the chronology of the Platonic dialogues.Platos Jugenddialoge und die Entstehungszeit des Phaidros, 1914 - Plato's "youth dialogues" and the origin of Phaedrus.Xenophons Memorabilien und Apologie des Sokrates, 1923 - Xenophon's "Memorabilia" and "Apology".Die drei aristotelischen Ethiken, 1924 - The three Aristotelian ethics.Zur Entstehungsgeschichte der aristotelischen Politik, 1924 - On the origin of Aristotelian politics.Die Entstehung der Gotteslehre des Aristoteles, 1931 - The emergence of Aristotle's doctrine of God.Zwölf Tragödien des Euripides, 2 volumes 1931.