| Code | DS/UK/1277 |
| Dates | 01/07/1867-03/07/1924 |
| Person Name | Boll; Franz (01/07/1867-03/07/1924); Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Surname | Boll |
| Forenames | Franz |
| Title | Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Activity | Professor of Classical Philology. Work at Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (1891), Director of the department of manuscripts (1898-); Professor of Classical Philology in Würzburg (1903-); Professor of Classical Philology (Heidelberg, 1908).
Collaborated with Franz Cumont and others (including Wilhelm Kroll), to the Corpus Codicum Astrologorum Graecorum [Catalogue of the Codices of the Greek Astrologers]; member of the Academies of Science in Heidelberg, Munich and Bologna; honorary doctorate of the University of Padua. Collaborated extensively with the orientalist Carl Bezold (1859-1922). |
| Relationships | Son of Georg Boll und Franziska Bittner, wife Ida Schwarzenbach, son Georg Valentin Boll |
| History | Studied in Berlin (1885/86) and Munich (1887-1891) classical philology, specializing in ancient astronomy, astrology and history of mathematics; doctoral dissertation about Claudius Ptolemy (1894). |
| Source | Viktor Pöschl , "Boll, Franz" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie, Vol. 2., Berlin 1955, pp.432; Wer ist's, Biographien, ed.Herrmann A.L. Degener, 8th edition, Leipzig 1922, pp.150; "Franz Boll" in de.wikipedia; URL: <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Boll_(Philologe)> [accessed 10/06/2011], and "Franz Boll" in de.wiki.astro; URL: <http://wiki.astro.com/astrowiki/de/Franz_Boll> [accessed 10/06/2011], "Franz Boll" in westnet; URL: <http://members.westnet.com.au/gary-david-thompson/page11-42.html> [accessed 10/06/2011]. |
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