Adolf Kiessling

Who was Adolf Kiessling?

Adolf Kiessling was a German philologist born in Culm.

He studied at the University of Bonn under Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker, Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl, Franz Bücheler and Otto Jahn. In 1863, he became a professor of classical philology at the University of Basel, and in 1869 began teaching classes at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums in Hamburg. In 1872, he relocated to the University of Greifswald, and in 1889 succeeded Friedrich Leo at the University of Göttingen.

Kiessling's research largely dealt with critiques and commentaries of ancient classical texts. His best known work being an extensive commentary on the works of Horace, which appeared in three volumes from 1884 to 1889, and following Kiessling's death was edited by Richard Heinze.

Other noted publications by Kiessling were:

Philologische Untersuchungen.

Dionysi Halicarnasensis Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, 1867

Annaei Senecae oratorum et rhetorum sententiae divisiones colores, 1872

Aristoteles Schrift vom Staatswesen der Athener, 1891