Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher
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Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (12 February 1845, Göttingen
-9 March 1923, Dresden
) was a German classical scholar. He is best known for his Lexicon, the Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie. He also published Neue Omphalosstudien: Ein Archaologischer Beitrag zur Vergleichenden Religions-Wissenschaft (1915), an archaeological study of the omphalos myth.
The economist Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher
was his father.
Göttingen
Göttingen is a university town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Göttingen. The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686.-General information:...
-9 March 1923, Dresden
Dresden
Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....
) was a German classical scholar. He is best known for his Lexicon, the Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie. He also published Neue Omphalosstudien: Ein Archaologischer Beitrag zur Vergleichenden Religions-Wissenschaft (1915), an archaeological study of the omphalos myth.
The economist Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher
Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher
Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher was a German economist from Hanover.He studied at Göttingen, where he became a member of Corps Hannovera, and Berlin, and obtained a professorship at Göttingen in 1844 and subsequently at Leipzig in 1848.The main origins of the historical school of political economy...
was his father.