The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Immisch, Otto

IMMISCH, ĭmĭsh, Otto, German classical scholar: b. Wartha, Lusatia, 1862. He received his education at the University of Leipzig, was appointed lecturer there in 1889 and professor in 1896. From 1907 to 1913 he was professor at Giessen and in the latter year was appointed to a chair at Königsberg. He published ‘Philologische Studien zu Plato’ (1896; 1903); ‘Die innere Entwicklung des griechischen Epos’ (1904); an edition of Susemihl's ‘Aristotelis Politica’ (1909); ‘Wie studiert man klassische Philologie?’ (1909); ‘Das Erbe des Alten’ (1911).