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August Ritter von Kleemann
A little-known early 20th-century classicist, he wrote closely argued studies of Plato and school commentaries on Greek drama. His surviving works suggest a scholar drawn to careful reading, big philosophical questions, and the texture of ancient texts.
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Das Problem des platonischen Symposion.
by August Ritter von Kleemann
About the author
August Ritter von Kleemann appears to have been a German-language classical scholar and author active in the early 1900s. The works that can be readily confirmed include Das Problem des platonischen Symposion, a study of Plato's Symposium, along with school commentaries on Euripides' Medea, Hippolytos, and Iphigenia auf Tauris.
From those titles, he seems best understood as a writer working at the meeting point of classical philology and philosophy: someone interested both in close textual explanation and in the larger ideas inside Greek literature. His published work points to a strong focus on Plato and Euripides, especially in editions meant to guide students through difficult ancient texts.
Biographical details beyond the books themselves are hard to confirm from reliable online sources, so much about his life remains unclear. Even so, the record of his publications leaves the impression of a serious, thoughtful scholar whose work belonged to the world of early modern classical education.