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Richard August Reitzenstein (1861-1931) was a German classical philologist and scholar of Ancient Greek religion, hermetism and Gnosticism. He is described by Kurt Rudolph[1] as “one of the most stimulating Gnostic scholars”. He was with William Bousset one of the major figures of the religionsgeschichtliche Schule (History of Religions School)[2].

His Poimandres: Studien zur Griechisch-Ägyptischen und frühchristlichen Literatur of 1904 was a pioneer scholarly study of the Poimandres, which he compared to the Shepherd of Hermas[3].

Works

  • Verrianische Forschungen (1887)
  • Epigramm und Skolion. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der alexandrinischen Dichtung (1893)
  • M. Terentius Varro und Johannes Mauropus von Euchaita (1901)
  • Das Märchen von Amor und Psyche bei Apuleius (1912)
  • Das mandäische Buch des Herrn der Größe und die Evangelienüberlieferung (1919)
  • Das iranische Erlösungsmysterium : religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen (1921)
  • Alchemistische Lehrschriften und Märchen bei den Arabern (1923)
  • Die hellenistischen Mysterienreligionen (1927) English translation (1978) as Hellenistic Mystery-Religions: Their Basic Ideas and Significance
  • Studien zum antiken Synkretismus aus Iran und Griechenland
  • Antike und Christentum: Vier religionsgeschichtliche Aufsätze
  • Hellenistische Wundererzählungen

References

  • Festschrift Richard Reitzenstein (1931)
  • Anthony Grafton (1990), Forgers and Critics: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship ISBN 0-691-05544-0, Ch. 3
  • S. Marchand, From Liberalism to Neoromanticism: Albrecht Dieterich, Richard Reitzenstein, and the religious turn in fin-de-siècle German Classical Studies, in: Out of Arcadia. Classics and Politics in Germany in the Age of Burckhardt, Nietzsche and Wilamowitz, ed. by I. Gildenhard and M. Ruehl, London 2003, pp. 129–160

Notes

  1. ^ Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism p.32.
  2. ^ [1]. See also Karen Leigh King, What is Gnosticism?.
  3. ^ [2]