Education
Hans Diller obtained a doctorate in 1930 in Hamburg, and later studied in Leipzig in 1932 before returning to Hamburg as a lecturer.
medical historian philologist university professor
Hans Diller obtained a doctorate in 1930 in Hamburg, and later studied in Leipzig in 1932 before returning to Hamburg as a lecturer.
In 1937, he made an application for Nazi Party membership and the same year he became an associate professor in Rostock. He was accepted into the Nazi party in 1940. After the end of World World War II, he denied before the denazification commission his party membership and received an appointment as professor of classical philology at Kiel, where he remained until his retirement.
Foreign the academic year 1950/51 he was appointed rector of the Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel.
One of his main areas of research was Hippocratic medicine. He published a book in 1970 dedicated to this field, and partly consisted of work written by Hippocrates originally.
In addition, he also concerned himself with the Greek tragedians and co-authored works about Sophocles, for example. Foreign his efforts he was awarded in 1962 an honorary doctorate at the University of Athens.
Diller taught a number of notable scholars including Hermann Grensemann, Hans-Joachim Newiger, Gert Preiser and Renate Wittern-Sterzel.
In 1933 Diller signed the Loyalty Oath of German Professors to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist State.
He rejected offers to move to Mainz (1952), although he became a full member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature based there, and further rejected offers to move to Cologne (1958) and Hamburg (1960).