Franz Stoessl

Franz Stoessl, the son of the writer Otto Stoessl, studied classical philology, Indo-European studies, history and philosophy at the University of Vienna. After receiving his doctorate (1933), he taught from 1934 as a high school teacher. After the annexation of Austria, he was dismissed in 1938 because of his Jewish origins and emigrated to Switzerland. In 1939 he was employed at the University of Zurich as a private lecturer and in 1948 he was appointed adjunct professor.

In 1950 he emigrated to Canada, where he worked as an assistant professor at the University of New Brunswick. In 1952 he returned to Vienna and worked at the University of Vienna, first as a private lecturer and from 1954 as an associate professor. For his achievements in research and teaching, he received the Theodor Körner Prize in 1954 and 1958 and in 1957 the City of Vienna's Advancement Prize for Science. In 1957 Stoessl became an associate professor at the University of Graz. Here he remained until the end of his life, from 1964 as a full professor.

Stoessl's research focused on Greek tragedy (Aeschylus) and New Comedy (Menander), on the prehistory of Greek theater and on Greek historiography (especially Thucydides). He also published essays and monographs on Roman poetry (Catullus and Ovid). He was co-editor of the Grazer Contributions: Journal for Classical Philology.

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