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= Alois Goldbacher = Skip to navigationJump to search Alois Goldbacher (27 June 1837 in Merano – † 28 April 1924 in Graz) was an Austrian classical philologist.

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Life
Goldbacher studied classical philology at the University of Innsbruck with Karl Schenkl and at the University of Vienna with Hermann Bonitz and Johannes Vahlen. After passing the teacher training examination in Innsbruck (1861), he deepened his studies for a year as a scholarship holder in Vienna. In 1862 he became an assistant teacher at the grammar school in Olomouc, and in 1865 a grammar school teacher in Troppau. In 1867 he received his doctorate from the University of Leipzig. and a year later nostrified by the University of Graz. In 1869 he became a teacher at the Second State Grammar School in Graz. From 1871 he also worked as a private lecturer at the University of Graz. In 1875 he became professor at the University of Chernivtsi, of which he was rector in 1881/82. In 1882 he returned to the University of Graz as a professor, where he held the rectorate in 1891/92 and retired in 1908.

Through the influence of his teachers Schenkl and Vahlen, Goldbacher was particularly interested in Latin prose literature. As a corresponding member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences, he participated in the Latin Corpus of the Church Fathers, for which he prepared a critical edition of the Epistles of St. Augustine.

Literature

 * Goldbacher, Alois. In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Publisher of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 21.
 * Gerhard Baader: Goldbacher, Alois. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7, p. 602 f.
 * Alois Kernbauer: Alois Goldbacher. In: The subject of classical philology at the University of Graz from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. With contributions by Herbert H. Egglmaier, Walter Höflechner, Alois Kernbauer, Walter Primig, Peter G. Tropper, Franz-Anton Wallisch. In: Contributions and Materials to the History of Science in Austria. Ed. Walter Höflechner (= Publications from the Archive of the University of Graz 11), Graz 1981, pp. 132–151.