Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher [SEP] place of death
Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher
Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (12 February 1845, in Göttingen – 9 March 1923, in Dresden) was a German classical scholar. He specialized in studies of Greek and Roman mythology.
He received his education at the Universities of Göttingen and Leipzig, obtaining his PhD in 1868. While at Leipzig, from encouragement by Friedrich Ritschl, he along with fellow students Wilhelm Wisser, Richard Arnold and Friedrich Nietzsche, formed a student philological association in December 1865. Since 1871 he taught classes at the "Fürstenschule"
Political Economy in the 16th and 17th Century) was published.
In 1870, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Roscher died in 1894 in Leipzig. The classical scholar Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (1845–1923) was his son.
References.
- Theodor Roscher, "Zur Geschichte der Familie Roscher in Niedersachsen" (Hanover, 1892)
- Moritz Brasch, "Wilhelm Roscher und die sozialwissenschaftlichen Strömungen der Gegenwart" (Leipzig, 1895).