Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett was born in London in 1925. His father, George Dummett, was a silk merchant ....

In September 1939 (just after the onset of World War II) Dummett began his secondary education, as a Scholar at Winchester College. After a compulsory year on the classics ladder, he opted for science, but was “deeply disappointed” by it and switched to history. In 1943 he obtained a history scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford, but now 18 and with the war still on, went into the Royal Artillery instead of Christ Church. He was sent on a six month “short course” in Edinburgh. While there he contacted the University Catholic Chaplaincy and underwent instruction by the Chaplain, Father Ivo Thomas, and was received into the Catholic Church in February 1944. After Basic Training he was transferred to the Intelligence Corps and sent to Bedford for a six month course of training to translate written Japanese, and then to the Wireless Experimental Centre outside Dehli, in which intercepted Japanese wireless message were translated. When the war with Japan ended, Dummett was sent to Malaya as part of Field Security. He wrote recently that “it must have been in Malaya that a passionate hatred of racism was first born in me. I learned of the means by which the British masters of pre-war colonial Malaya had maintained and acted out the myth of white racial superiority”, though Michael Screech remembers Dummett expressing anger about racism already when they were together on the Bedford course and at the Wireless Centre.

Dummett was demobilized in 1947, just in time to go up to Christ Church that year. He felt that after four years in the army he had forgotten much of the history he had learnt, and decided instead to read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE).

Everyone who knew Dummett has vivid memories of his smoking, which for most of his life he did using a short cigarette holder into which a replaceable filter was fitted, though not initially, to judge by a recollection of him in his army days, tapping the end of his cigarette many times before lighting it, an action so characteristic that it came to be called “dummetting” by those around him.

Manfred ZOLLINGER
is a historian who teaches Economic and Social History at WU. He is a prominent co-author of various exhibition catalogues on gambling, such as “Loteries en europe” (La Tour-de-Peilz 2012) and “Spiele der Stadt” (Vienna 2013). Presently he is writing a global history of lotteries.

Die Bände erschienen in loser Folge in meist mehrjährigem Abstand im B. G. Teubner Verlag. Dennoch kam das Lexikon zum Abschluss. Nach Roschers Tod (1923) übernahm Konrat Ziegler die Herausgeberschaft.

Band 1, Abteilung 1: Aba–Evan (1886)
Band 1, Abteilung 2: Euxistratos–Hysiris. Vorläufige Nachträge zu Band 1 (1890)
Band 2, Abteilung 1: Iache–Kyzikos (1894)
Band 2, Abteilung 2: Laas–Myton (1897)
Band 3, Abteilung 1: Nabaiothes–Pasicharea (1902)
Band 3, Abteilung 2: Pasikrateia–Pyxios (1909)
Band 4: Qu–S (1909-1915)[1]
Band 5: T (1924)
Band 6: U–Zyrratêl sowie Nachträge: Abaios–Zwölfgötter, Acerbas–Telephos (1937)
Dazu erschienen vier Supplemente:

Karl Friedrich Bruchmann: Epitheta deorum quae apud poetas graecos leguntur, Leipzig 1893
Jesse Benedict Carter: Epitheta deorum quae apud poetas latinos leguntur, Leipzig 1902
Ernst Hugo Berger: Mythische Kosmographie der Griechen, Leipzig 1904
Otto Gruppe: Geschichte der Klassischen Mythologie und Religionsgeschichte, Leipzig 1921

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Digitalisate der Bände im Internet Archive:
Bd. 1, Abt. 1: Aba–Evan
Bd. 1, Abt. 2: Euxistratos–Hysiris
Bd. 2, Abt. 1: Iache–Kyzikos
Bd. 2, Abt. 2: Laas–Myton
Bd. 3, Abt. 1: Nabaiothes – Pasicharea
Bd. 3, Abt. 2: Pasikrateia – Pyxios
Bd. 4: Qu – S
Bd. 5: T
Bd. 6: U – Z und Nachträge
Digitalisate der Supplemente (PDF; 103 MB) im Internet Archive

Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE) ist die umfangreichste Enzyklopädie zum Altertum.