Siebenundneunzigster Jahresbericht der Schlesischen Gesellschaft fur vaterlandische Cultur. 1919 - 1924. 1925 r.

Siebenundneunzigster Jahresbericht der Schlesischen Gesellschaft fur vaterlandische Cultur. 1919 - 1924. 1925 r. - Richard Foerster

Siebenundneunzigster Jahresbericht: 81 str

Schlesischen Gesellschaft fur vaterlandische Cultur: 96 str

Richard Foerster (March 2, 1843 – August 7, 1922) was a German classical scholar. Though born and raised in Görlitz, Foerster never saw himself a Lusatian and felt the strongest allegiance to Silesia, where he studied since winter term 1861 after a semester at Jena. In Breslau he dropped theology and concentrated on classics in a comprehensive way. Apart from Greek and Roman literature (under Jacob Bernays and Martin Hertz) he studied metrics under Rudolf Westphal, archaeology under August Rossbach, Sanskritunder Adolf Friedrich Stenzler. His doctoral thesis was inspired by Friedrich Haase and dealt with a phaenomenon in Greek grammar called attractio casus. From 1866 on Foerster worked as a substitute teacher at the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Breslau. After being promoted to Dr. phil. in 1866 and earning the venia legendi via habilitation in 1868, Foerster was granted the Travel Stipend of the German Archaeological Institute. The next two years he spent in Italy, mostly Rome, where he met many foreign scholars, collated manuscripts and laid the foundation for what was to become his life's work: critical editions of the physiognomists and of the works of Libanius.