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Paul Maas (classical scholar)

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Paul Maas. Charcoal drawing by Emil Stumpp

Paul Maas (18 November 1880 in Frankfurt am Main – 15 July 1964 in Oxford) was a German scholar who, along with Karl Lachmann founded the field of textual criticism.[1][2]

Maas's law

Maas formulated Maas's law, an observation of the layout of bookrolls.

Literature

  • Katja Bär: Paul Maas. In: Robert B. Todd (Hrsg.): Dictionary of British Classicists Vol. 2. Bristol 2004.
  • Charles Oscar Brink: Paul Maas (1880–1964). In: Eikasmós 4, 1993, S. 253–254. (Abstract)
  • Richard Kannicht: Griechische Metrik. In: Heinz-Günther Nesselrath (Hrsg.): Einleitung in die griechische Philologie. B. G. Teubner, Stuttgart/Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-519-07435-4, S. 343–362.
  • Hugh Lloyd-Jones: Paul Maas †. In: Gnomon 37, 1965, S. 219–221.
  • Hugh Lloyd-Jones: Paul Maas (1880–1964). In: Eikasmós 4, 1993, S. 255–262. (Abstract)
  • Eckart Mensching: Über einen verfolgten deutschen Altphilologen: Paul Maas 1880–1964. Berlin 1987.
  • Peter Wirth (1987), "Maas, Paul", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 15, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 597–597; (full text online)

References

  1. ^ https://wiki.uib.no/stemmatology/index.php/Paul_Maas
  2. ^ http://www.textualscholarship.org/stemmatics/
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