Friedrich August Wolf (born the 15 February 1759 in Hainrode; † the 8 August 1824 with Marseilles) is a philologist and known German hellenist to have blamed the unicity of composition of the Iliade and Odyssée.

Biography

Friedrich August Wolf attended the school of Nordhausen then studied the traditional Philologie with Göttingen starting from 1777 under the direction of Heyne. Professor with Ilfeld in 1779, then principal of Osterode in 1782, it reached the following year the pulpit of Philosophie and Propédeutique of the university of Halle. When Napoleon ordered the closing of the university (1807), he moved in Berlin where he was named member of the Academy of Science.

He contributed to the rectification of Prussia, which had enormously suffered from the Napoleonean campaigns, by assigning with the university education function not only intellectual, but such a moral, within the meaning of néo-humanism (“the ultimate goal of the existence is the construction of a personality”). Thus, in close cooperation with Wilhelm von Humboldt, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, it made old story and philology of the disciplines with whole share in the Prussian university system.

He died at the time of a voyage in France which he had undertaken in April 1824. He was member corresponding of the Académie of the Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres.

Works

Its principal test, remained with the state of fragments, carries the title of Prolégomènes in Homère : Wolf, by a critical of the text (form and contents), questions the unicity of Iliade and the Odyssey, launching an assumption known in traditional philology under the Homeric term of question . For Wolf, Iliade and the Odyssey are actually a compilation of various made up poems at various times, by different authors.

• Antiquitäten von Griechenland. Hammerde, Market 1787.

• Darstellung der Alterthums-Wissenschaft. Berlin 1807. (réimpr. Acta Humaniora. Weinheim 1986) ISBN 3-527-17552-0
• Encyclopädie DER Philology . Forwarding D. Europ. Aufsehers, Leipzig 1831
• Kleine Schriften in lateinischer und deutscher Sprache. Olms, Hildesheim 2003
• data base 1. Scripta latina. ISBN 3-487-12033-X
• data base 2. Deutsche Aufsätze. ISBN 3-487-12034-8
• Prolegomena zu Homer. 1795 . Reclam, Leipzig (all.)
• Prolegomena to Homer. 1795 . Princeton Univ. Near, Princeton, N.J. 1988. (into Engl.) ISBN 0-691-10247-3

References

• Victor Bérard - a lie of German science. The “Prolégomènes with Homère” of Frederic-Auguste Wolf (1917, 2nd edition), ED. Hatchet and Co, Paris, In-12 stitched, 288 p.
• Salvatore Cerasuolo (ED.): Friedrich August Wolf E the scienza dell' antichità (1997), Univ. from Naples.

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