Hermann Alexander Diels | |
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Born | 18 May 1848 |
Died | 4 June 1922 | (aged 74)
Nationality | German |
Alma mater | University of Bonn |
Known for | Diels–Kranz numbering |
Children | Ludwig Diels |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Classics |
Institutions | University of Berlin |
Thesis | “De Galeni historia philosophia” (1870) |
Doctoral advisor | Hermann Usener |
Doctoral students | Felix Jacoby |
Other notable students |
Hermann Alexander Diels (German: [diːls]; 18 May 1848 – 4 June 1922) was a German classical scholar, who was influential in the area of early Greek philosophy and is known for his standard work Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. Diels helped to import the term Presocratic into classical scholarship and developed the Diels–Kranz numbering system for ancient Greek Pre-Socratic texts.[1]