Alfred Körte was a German classical philologist who was a native of Berlin

Berlin

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. He was a younger brother to surgeon

Surgeon

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 Werner Körte

Werner Körte

Werner Körte was a German surgeon who was a native of Berlin. He was the brother of archaeologist Gustav Körte and philologist Alfred Körte ....

 (1853-1937) and archaeologist Gustav Körte

Gustav Körte

Gustav Körte was a German classical archaeologist who was born in Berlin. He was the brother of philologist Alfred Körte and surgeon Werner Körte ....

 (1852-1917). In 1896 he married Frieda Gropius, the daughter of the architect

Architect

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 Martin Gropius

Martin Gropius

Martin Carl Philipp Gropius was a German architect.- Life :Gropius studied at the Bauakademie in Berlin and after graduation worked as a private architect...

 (1824-1880).

In 1890 he earned his doctorate from the University of Bonn

University of Bonn

The University of Bonn is a public research university located in Bonn, Germany. Founded in its present form in 1818, as the linear successor of earlier academic institutions, the University of Bonn is today one of the leading universities in Germany. The University of Bonn offers a large number...

, where he was a student of Hermann Usener

Hermann Usener

Hermann Karl Usener was a German scholar in the fields of philology and comparative religion.-Life:...

 (1834-1905). In 1899 he became a full professor at the University of Greifswald, and in 1903 he succeeded Erich Bethe

Erich Bethe

Erich Julius Adolf Bethe was a German classical philologist who was a native of Stettin.In 1887 he earned his doctorate from the University of Göttingen, and in 1891 received his habilitation at Bonn...

 (1863-1940) at the University of Basel

University of Basel

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. Subsequently he was a professor at the Universities of Giessen

University of Giessen

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 (1906), Freiburg

University of Freiburg

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 (1914) and Leipzig

University of Leipzig

The University of Leipzig , located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, is one of the oldest universities in the world and the second-oldest university in Germany...

 (1917), where he remained until his retirement in 1934. Körte was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and the German Archaeological Institute

German Archaeological Institute

The German Archaeological Institute is an institution of research within the field of archaeology , and a "scientific corporation", with parentage of the federal Foreign Office of Germany-Origin:...

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Alfred Körte was a leading expert in the study of Greek comedies, and is remembered for his translation and editorial work of papyrus

Papyrus

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 fragments left by the dramatist Menander

Menander

Menander , Greek dramatist, the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy, was the son of well-to-do parents; his father Diopeithes is identified by some with the Athenian general and governor of the Thracian Chersonese known from the speech of Demosthenes De Chersoneso...

. He was also a specialist of Hellenistic poetry, and contributed numerous articles to the Pauly-Wissowa

Pauly-Wissowa

The Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, commonly called the Pauly–Wissowa or simply RE, is a German encyclopedia of classical scholarship. With its supplements it comprises over eighty volumes....

, the German encyclopedia of classical scholarship.

In 1900 he assisted his brother, Gustav Körte with the initial excavation of the ancient city of Gordion in Asia Minor

Asia Minor

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, and was co-author of a 1904 treatise describing their findings, titled Gordion: Ergebnisse der Ausgrabung im Jahre 1900. Beginning in 1923, with Richard Heinze (1867-1929), he was publisher of the magazine "Hermes".