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Rudolf Carl Franz Otto Pfeiffer (September 20, 1889 – May 5, 1979)〔Bühler (1980) 402.〕 was a German classical philologist. He is known today primarily for his landmark, two-volume edition of Callimachus and the two volumes of his ''History of Classical Scholarship'', in addition to numerous articles and lectures related to these projects and to the fragmentary satyr plays of Aeschylus and Sophocles. ==Early life and education== Pfeiffer was born in Augsburg on September 20, 1889. His parents were Carl Pfeiffer, the proprietor of a print-shop, and Elise (née Naegele).〔Vogt (2001) 323.〕 The boy's grandfather Jakob, also a printer, had purchased the house of the humanist Konrad Peutinger, and Pfeiffer would later consider it a special stroke of fate that he had been born and bred in the former home of a central figure from the golden age of humanism in Augsburg.〔Bühler (1980) 402–3.〕 He studied at the Gymnasium of the Benedictine St. Stephen's Abbey, where he was a pupil of P. Beda Grundl, a follower of Wilamowitz. Pfeiffer spent his leisure time with Beda Grundl reading Homer and a host of other Greek authors.〔Bühler (1980) 403.〕 Upon passing the Abitur in 1908, Pfeiffer moved on to Munich where he was inducted into the Stiftung Maximilianeum and began studying classical and German philology at the University of Munich.〔Vogt (2001) 323 and Bühler (1980) 403.〕 There he studied under the Germanist Hermann Paul and Hellenist Otto Crusius.〔 Although Pfeiffer would continue serious study of German literature while at the university, Crusius' influence upon him was great and set the stage for his later career as a scholar of Hellenistic poetry.〔 In 1913, under the direction of the literary historian Franz Muncker, Pfeiffer completed a dissertation on the 16th-century Augsburg Meistersinger and translator of Homer and Ovid, Johann Spreng, entitled ''Der Augsburger Meistersinger und Homerübersetzer Johannes Spreng'', a revised version of which was published as a monograph in 1919.〔Bühler (1980) 404; Vogt (2001) 323〕 He dedicated his dissertation as an ''uxori carissimae sacrum'', Latin for (roughly) "a gift of devotion to a wife most dear"—namely, Lili (née Beer), a painter from Hungary whom he had married earlier in 1913.〔 In 1968 Pfeiffer would repeat this dedication in the first volume of ''History of Classical Scholarship'', closing the preface with:
Lili died the next year; the couple had no children.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rudolf Pfeiffer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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