Karl Deichgräber

Karl Marienus Deichgräber (10 February 1903, Aurich, Province of Hanover – 16 December 1984, Bovenden) was a German classical philologist.

In 1928, Deichgräber earned his doctorate at Münster with a thesis on medical schools during the time of Ancient Greece.

Upon returning to Berlin, he habilitated in 1931, with research of books I and III of the Epidemics by Hippocrates.

In 1935 he was summoned to the University of Marburg as a professor specializing in Hellenistic Greece.

[1] On 25 January 1946, Deichgräber was removed from office, which he felt throughout his life as deeply unfair.