Ernst Maass

Ernst Maass (12 April 1856, in Kolberg – 11 November 1929, in Marburg) was a German classical philologist.

From 1875 he studied at the universities of Tübingen and Greifswald, receiving his doctorate in 1879 as a student of Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff. After graduation, he took an extended study trip to Italy, Paris and London (1880–82), and afterwards qualified as a lecturer in Berlin with the habilitation-thesis Analecta Eratosthenica. In 1886 he was named a professor at the University of Greifswald, and from 1895 to 1924, served as a professor and director of the philological seminary at the University of Marburg. In 1910/11 he was rector at the university.

• Arati Phaenomena (edition of Aratus' Phaenomena).
• Commentatio mythographica, 1886.
• De Attali Rhodii fragmentis Arateis commentatio, 1888.
• Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem Townleyana (with Wilhelm Dindorf, 1888).
• Parerga Attica, 1889.
• De Aeschyli Supplicibus commentatio, 1890.
• De tribus Philetae carminibus, 1895.
• Orpheus; Untersuchungen zur griechischen, römischen, altchristlichen Jenseitsdichtung und Religion, 1895 – Orpheus: Investigations of Greek, Roman and early Christian afterlife literature and religion.
• De Lenaeo et Delphinio commentatio, 1896.
• Commentariorum in Aratum reliquiae, 1898.
• Analecta sacra et profana, 1901.
• Die Tagesgötter in Rom und den Provinzen, aus der Kultur des Niederganges der antiken Welt, 1902 – The Tagesgötter in Rome and the provinces.
• Griechen und Semiten auf dem Isthmus von Korinth, 1903 – Greeks and Semites on the Isthmus of Corinth.
• Goethe und die antike, 1912 – Goethe and antiquity.

• HathiTrust Digital Library published works
• Ernst Maass de.Wikisource (bibliography)