Johannes Ilberg

Johannes Ilberg (10 July 1860, Magdeburg – 20 August 1930, Leipzig) was a German educator and classical philologist who was the author of numerous works on ancient Greek medicine. His father, Hugo Ilberg (1828-1883), was a gymnasium director, and his uncle, Friedrich von Ilberg (1858-1916), was a personal physician to Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Biography[]

Ilberg studied philology, archaeology, history and philosophy in Leipzig, Bonn and Berlin. At the University of Bonn, he was greatly influenced by philologist Hermann Usener; at the University of Leipzig, he received his doctorate under the sponsorship of Otto Ribbeck. Later on, he served as a gymnasium rector in Wurzen (from 1910), Chemnitz (from 1914) and at the Queen Carola gymnasium in Leipzig (1916-24). He was co-editor (since 1897) and editor (1914–1929) of the educational series "Neuen Jahrbücher für das klassische Altertum, Geschichte und deutsche Literatur", a publication that was also referred to as Ilbergs Jahrbücher ("Ilberg's Yearbook"). In 1925 it was renamed "Neuen Jahrbücher für Wissenschaft und Jugendbildung".^[1]

Gravesite of Ilberg at Südfriedhof in Leipzig.

Published works[]

• Das Hippokrates-Glossar des Erotianos und seine ursprüngliche Gestalt, 1893 – The Hippocratic glossary of Erotianos.
• Hippocratis Opera quae feruntur omnia, 1894-1902 (2 volumes, with Hugo Kühlewein).
• Die Sphinx in der griechischen Kunst und Sage, 1896 – The sphinx in Greek art and legend.
• Aus Galens Praxis; ein Kulturbild aus der römischen Kaiserzeit, 1905 – On Galen's experience; a cultural image of the Roman Empire.
• Zwei vorträge zur Geschichte der Antiken Medizin, 1909 (with Max Wellmann) – Two lectures on the history of ancient medicine.
• Die Überlieferung der Gynäkologie des Soranos von Ephesos, 1910 – The tradition of gynaecology involving Soranus of Ephesus.
• Rufus von Ephesos, ein griechischer Arzt in trajanischer Zeit, 1930 – Rufus of Ephesus, a Greek physician in the Trajanic period.^[2]

Ilberg was the author of numerous articles in Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher's "Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie" (Concise dictionary of Greek and Roman mythology).^[1]

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External links[]

• Works by or about Johannes Ilberg at Internet Archive