Johannes Kirchner
Johannes Ernst Kirchner was a German classical philologist and epigrapher.
Life
Johannes Kirchner was born in Reval, then part of the Russian Empire and grew up in Saint Petersburg, where his father ran a school. From 1874, he attended Pforta school in Saxony-Anhalt. In 1880, he began studies in classical philology and history at Halle and Bonn under Hermann Usener and Franz Bücheler. He graduated in 1883 at Halle with a work on Demosthenes. During his studies, he was a member of the Academic-Musical Association of Ascania Halle and the second edition of Inscriptiones graecae II/III, a corpus of Athenian inscriptions from after 403/2 BC, much of which is still the standard reference work.He was honoured with the Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft in 1939.
The librarian was his son.