Wilhelm Baehrens

itated there in May 1919 and was appointed professorextraordinary in 1920. In 1922 he was appointed ordinary professor at the University of Gttingen, where he
worked until his death in 1929. His edition of the works
of Origen was published from 1920 to 1925; another edition of Fulgentius' works was not completed.

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Wilhelm Baehrens

Wilhelm Adolf Baehrens (3 September 1885 23 January 1929) was a German classical scholar.
The son of professor Emil Baehrens (18481888), Wilhelm Baehrens was born in Groningen. After visiting the
local gymnasium he stepped in his early deceased fathers
footsteps by studying philology and papyrology at the
University of Groningen. He also stayed few semesters at
Halle, Gttingen and Berlin. In 1910 Baehrens received
his doctors degree at Groningen with his dissertation
Panegyricorum latinorum editionis novae praefatio maior
accedit Plinii panegyricus. For two years he acted as assistant schoolmaster at the Groningen gymnasium, until
in 1912 he published his Beitrge zur lateinischen Syntax. In 1913 the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities entrusted him with the publication of the Latin
homilies by Origen. The next three years Baehrens travelled to Italy, France and Germany collating manuscripts.
The University of Groningen therefore awarded him venia legendi in 1915 and in 1916 Baehrens was appointed
ordinary professor at the University of Ghent by the German occupation government in Belgium.
After the loss of Germany in World War I and the termination of the German occupation of Belgium, Baehrens
was expelled from Ghent as a collaborator in 1919. Because of the Halle professor Georg Wissowa, he habil1

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