Valentin Rose (classicist)
{{Short description|German classicist and textual critic (1829 – 1916)}}
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Valentin Rose (8 January, 1829 – 25 December, 1916) was a German classicist and textual critic.
Personal life
Valentin Rose was the son of mineralogist Gustav Rose (1798–1873), and a nephew to famed mineralogist Heinrich Rose (1795–1864) and to the pharmacist Wilhelm Rose (1792–1867), of whom he published a brief remembrance ([https://books.google.com/books?id=nm1HAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA11 Berlin 1867]). His great-grandfather was pharmacologist Valentin Rose the Elder (1736–1771), and his grandfather was Valentin Rose the Younger (1762–1807), who was also a noted pharmacologist. His younger brother was the surgeon Edmund Rose. In August 1872, he married Marie Poggendorff, the daughter of Johann Christian Poggendorff.
Academic career
Rose received his doctorate from the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin in 1854. In 1855, he took a post at the Royal Library at Berlin, where he remained until his retirement in 1905. Under his leadership, the library's Manuscript Department (which he headed from 1886), gained a leading international reputation. He published catalogs of the collection between 1893 and 1905, and among the important discoveries made were texts in the history of medicine and in horticulture.
=Aristotelian fragments=
{{Seealso|Corpus Aristotelicum#Fragments}}
Rose's first edition of the fragments of Aristotle was [https://books.google.com/books?id=R0UTAAAAQAAJ Aristoteles Pseudepigraphus (1863)]. As the title suggests, Rose considered these all to be spurious. The third revised edition was published at Leipzig in 1886 with the title [https://books.google.com/books?id=00GPAAAAIAAJ Aristotelis Qui Ferebantur Librorum Fragmenta]. The engagement of Friedrich Nietzsche with this work has been described in the first chapter of James I. Porter, Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future, Stanford, 2000.
=Other works=
His other works (among them several editiones principes) include:
- De Aristotelis librorum ordine et auctoritate, inaugural dissertation, 1854 ([https://books.google.com/books?id=ZV4-AAAAcAAJ online])
- Anecdota graeca et graecolatina: Mitteilungen aus Handschriften zur Geschichte der griechischen Wissenschaft, 2 vols., 1864-1870 ([https://books.google.com/books?id=rZBfAAAAMAAJ vols. 1–2], [https://books.google.com/books?id=rx0IAAAAIAAJ vol. 1], [https://books.google.com/books?id=sR0IAAAAIAAJ vol. 2])
- Teubner editions of Vitruvius ([https://books.google.com/books?id=E6M9AAAAcAAJ 1867]), Anacreon ([https://books.google.com/books?id=NqlRu_wHM_AC 1868], [https://books.google.com/books?id=wBJMyLP4CVwC 1876]) Medicina Plinii and Quintus Gargilius Martialis ([https://books.google.com/books?id=2OI2mrC0z7sC 1875]), Anthimus ([https://books.google.com/books?id=HRf3wrFq0X0C 1877]), Cassius Felix ([https://books.google.com/books?id=-B4IAAAAIAAJ 1879]), Soranus and Muscio ([https://books.google.com/books?id=3-CeNbbVox8C 1882]), Theodorus Priscianus ([https://books.google.com/books?id=k28IAAAAIAAJ 1894]), Gilles de Corbeil ([https://books.google.com/books?id=0nEIAAAAIAAJ 1907])
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Category:Scholars from the Kingdom of Prussia