Hermann Mutschmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hermann Mutschmann

German classical philologist

Date of Birth: 21-Oct-1882

Place of Birth: Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 20-Jul-1918

Profession: university teacher, classical scholar, high school teacher, classical philologist

Nationality: German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Hermann Mutschmann (21 October 1882 in Essen – 20 July 1918 at Herlies) was a German classical philologist. He studied classical philology at the University of Bonn as a pupil of Hermann Usener and Franz Bücheler, then continued his education at the University of Kiel under Siegfried Sudhaus.
In 1906 he received his doctorate at Kiel with a dissertation on Aristotle, titled De divisionibus quae vulgo dicuntur Aristoteleis.
In 1907/08 he took a study tour of Italy, followed by work as a tutor in Bonn.
In 1910 he obtained his habilitation for classical philology, and in 1913 succeeded Christian Cornelius Jensen as an associate professor at the University of Königsberg.
During World War I, he died on the Western Front, near the town of Herlies in northern France.