Vilmos Pecz
Vilmos Pecz (1854 – 1923) was a Hungarian philologist, the editor of the Hungarian great Ókori lexikon.
Life[edit]
He completed his university studies in Budapest, u. He obtained in 1876 a high school teacher's degree, in 1878 a doctoral degree (Latin, Greek, German). 1877-91. a budapesti ev. He was a teacher at a grammar school, and since 1885 he was a private teacher of Greek literature at the University of Budapest. 1889-91. Deputy teacher in the department vacated by the death of Jenő Ábel. 1891. He moved to Cluj-Napoca to the University Department of Classical Philology, 1895. He was invited to Budapest as a public ordinary teacher. Even as a high school teacher, he repeatedly traveled to German universities (Berlin, Halle, Leipzig, Munich), and to Greece in 1892, from which he returned as an enthusiastic apostle of the conception that ancient Greek and Latin philology should be linked to medieval and modern times. With Greek and Latin philology, which also brought his conception to triumph, for the department to which he was invited was also the Department of Medieval and Modern Greek Philology. His literary work focused on the enforcement of the rights of modern Greece on the one hand, and the appreciation of Greek playwrights on the other, as well as on grammar and the teacher of the tropics. His most significant works are: The Tropics of Euripides, in comparison with the tropics of Aeschylus and Sophocles (Budapest 1882, German revision in Berlin 1886); Greek sentence structure (Budapest 1883); The Tropics of the Lesser Greek Tragics (p. 1886, Greek in Athens 1894); History of Greek Tragedy (Budapest 1889); The Tropics of Aristophanes (Greek, Athens 1893); Zotical poems on the battle of Varna (academic dissertation 1894); The New Greek Language (Cluj-Napoca 1893); Classica philologia at our universities and gymnasiums (Dean's speech, Cluj-Napoca 1895). He published numerous studies in domestic and foreign journals, especially the University. Philol. In a journal of excellent interest, 1896. The ancient name of the Hungarians at Konstantinos Porphyrogenetos, many translations from ancient and modern Hellenic poets (Hungary and the Great World, Budapest Review Transylvanian Museum). Based on his literary work, in 1875 he became a full member of the Budapest Philological Society, in 1883 he was the second secretary, in 1885 he was the first secretary, in 1887 he was a corresponding member of the academy, and in 1888 he was an internal member of the classical philology committee.
Works[edit]
- Latin verstan és prosodia gymnasiumok számára (Budapest, 1881)
- Euripides tropusai... (Budapest, 1881)
- A kisebb görög tragikusok tropusai... (Budapest, 1886)
- Ókori lexikon (editor) (I – II., Budapest, 1902–1904).
- A görög tragoedia (Budapest, 1889.)
- Τα μεταϕορικα ςχηματα του 'Αριςτοϕανους (Athén, 1893)
- Τα μεταϕορικα ςχηματα τϖυ μικροτερων και ανωνυμων αρχαιων ελληων τραγικϖν (Athén, 1894)
- Zotikos költeménye a várnai csatáról (Budapest, 1894)
- Uj-görög nyelvtan olvasmányokkal és bevezetéssel az uj görög nyelvtudományba (Budapest, 1894)
- Emlékbeszéd Télfy Iván lev. tag felett (Budapest, 1902)
- A classica philologia jövője tekintettel hazai viszonyainkra (Budapest, 1905.)
- Synkritike tropike tes poieseos ton enkriton chronon tes hellenikes logotechnias : hoi tropoi tes Iliados kai Odysseias, tou Pindarou, Aischylou, Sophokleous, Euripidou kai Aristophanous (Budapest, 1913.)
Sources[edit]
- Bokor József (editor). A Pallas nagy lexikona, Pallas Irodalmi és Nyomdai Rt., Budapest, 1893–1897 [1]
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