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Ernst Curtius Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German .
Ernst Robert Curtius. Ernst Robert Curtius (/ ˈ k ʊər t s i ʊ s /; 14 April 1886 – 19 April 1956) was a German literary scholar, philologist, and Romance languages literary critic, best known for his 1948 study Europäische Literatur und Lateinisches Mittelalter, translated in English as European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages.
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Ernst Curtius (1814–1896), German archaeologist, historian; Georg Curtius (1820–1885), German philologist; Jacob Curtius (1554–1594), Imperial Pro-Chancellor for Emperor Rudolph II, astronomer, mathematician and instrument maker; Janus Henricus Donker Curtius (1813–1879), the last Dutch chief of Dejima, Japan
2 September: Ernst Curtius, conducted archaeological research in the late 19th century; primarily interested in Greek archaeology (d. 1896) [3] Deaths.
The German excavations in 1875 were led by Ernst Curtius. On 8 May 1877, in the temple of Hera, he uncovered the body (head, torso, legs, left arm) of a statue of a young man resting against a tree trunk covered by a mantle. Protected by the thick clay layer above it, it was in an exceptionally good state of preservation.
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Ernst Robert Curtius studied topoi as "commonplaces", themes common to orators and writers who re-worked them according to occasion, e.g., in classical antiquity the observation that "all must die" was a topos in consolatory oratory, for in facing death the knowledge that death comes even to great men brings comfort. [2]