Benno Diederich

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Benno Diederich as a student in Göttingen in 1890

Benno Diederich (pseudonym: Raatz ) (born March 13, 1870 in Berlin ; † November 15, 1947 in Hamburg ) was a German teacher , philologist , author and biographer .

Live and act

Diederich was born the son of a railway secretary and attended the Humboldtgymnasium in Berlin and from 1885 the Christianeum high school in Altona , where he was dismissed in 1889 with the school leaving certificate . He then studied ancient languages and German at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . There he joined early 1890 in the connection and subsequent fraternity Holzminda one. In 1891 he moved to the University of Kiel , where he took his exams and doctorate in 1894 . He did his seminar year in Altona and his probationary year at the Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium in Wandsbek . In 1897 he was appointed as a scientific assistant teacher at the secondary school in Blankenese , where he became a senior teacher in 1899 . In the same year he went to the secondary school in Lübeck ; from there on to the learned school of the Johanneum in Hamburg, where he taught, among other things, Hans Erich Nossack . He was also the founder and operator of a literary salon . He died almost completely blind in Hamburg in 1947. He had two daughters, one - Ursula Schuh - gained fame as a painter and set designer.

He wrote numerous works, including the biographies of Émile Zola and Alphonse Daudet .

Publications

  • Quomodo dei in Homeri Odyssea cum hominibus commercium faciant. Dissertation, Kiel 1894.
  • Emile Zola. Leipzig 1898.
  • Queen Elisabeth of Romania (Carmen Sylva). A picture of life. Leipzig 1898.
  • Zola and the Rougon-Macquart. Hamburg 1899.
  • The milieu at Émile Zola. 1899.
  • Alphonse Daudet. His life and his works. Berlin 1900 and Hamburg 1901.
  • Grand Duke Peter of Oldenburg. Reminder sheets. Blankenese 1900.
  • About ghost stories, their technology and their literature. Leipzig 1903.
  • The hamburger. Character images from the literature of our time. Hamburg 1909.
  • Guided tour to art. Hamburg 1909.
  • Hamburg poets. Leipzig 1910.
  • Friederike. 1911.
  • Princess Ursula. A Christmas fairy tale in five acts. Leipzig 1912.
  • The most beautiful stories of ancient Greece. Stuttgart 1914.
  • A world war in ancient times. Stuttgart 1914.
  • From the old world empires. Stuttgart 1914.
  • The rise of Prussia. Berlin 1915.
  • Bolshevism and Expressionism. Hamburg 1921.
  • The sinking of the Carnatic. Haunted stories. Hamburg 1927. (as editor)
  • Sexualism, the sexual degeneration of the present. Hamburg 1929.
  • Johann Melchior Goeze, Lessing's opponent. In: Der Staatsdiener 1936 No. 6. Hamburg 1936. pp. 110–111.
  • Agrippa from Nettesheim. A second fist; on his memory day on September 14th. In: Börsen-Zeitung of September 13, 1936 Berlin.
  • The Wandsbeck messenger. For Matthias Claudius' 200th birthday. In: Hamburg Church Newspaper. Vol. 16. Hamburg 1940.
  • The stories of Herodotus. Retold by Benno Diederich. Stuttgart 1987. (New arrangement)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Wilhelm Ebel : The register of the Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen 1837–1900. Hildesheim 1974. (No. 64776, matriculated on October 21, 1889)
  2. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. p. 84.
  3. ↑ a b Roswitha Quadflieg: Beckett was here. Hamburg in Samuel Beckett's diary from 1936. Hamburg 2006, p. 34.
  4. ↑ Hans Erich Nossack: Pseudobiographical glosses. Frankfurt am Main 1971, p. 23 f.
  5. ↑ online at Archive.org
personal data
SURNAME Diederich, Benno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raatz (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, philologist, author and biographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1947
Place of death Hamburg