The ancient world (magazine)

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The antique magazine for art and culture of classical antiquity was published from 1925 to 1944 by the De Gruyter publishing housein Berlin.

Profile and history

The classical philologist Werner Jaeger founded the Society for Ancient Culture in 1924 , of which the later Minister of State and Finance Professor Johannes Popitz became its president . Jaeger also initiated their magazine Die Antike in 1925 , with which the scientific knowledge of ancient culture should be made fruitful for the intellectual life of the present. This magazine should not only address specialists, but "the entire German-speaking educated world". It was supposed to enable a look at the historical prerequisites of one's own culture, whereby Jaeger regarded the Germans like some other peoples as “multipliers and continuers of the great cultural heritage left by the ancient peoples”. In particular, the magazine was intended to help “gain new standards of living” through “the strictest content-related discussion of the greats of all time”.

Werner Jaeger and his friends from the Society for Ancient Culture pursued a program of "Renewal of the classicism of antiquity [...] which, through this new classicism, claimed to be a contribution to the renewal of the present" with this magazine. Antiquity is thus related to the cultural-political movement of the Third Humanism . Despite the cultural and political background of the magazine, the style of the articles is very relevant, scientific and generally understandable.

In ancient times , well-known and renowned scientists published. For example, Curtius, Friedländer, Goldbeck, Harder, Holl, Karo, Klingner, Latte, Lehmann-Hartleben, Noack, Otto, Stenzel, Täubler, Toeplitz, Weber, Willamowitz-Moellendorff and Zahn wrote the first volume in 1925. Topics were e.g. B .: The Greek tragedy and the tragic (Friedländer), Livius (Klingner), A Path to Caesar (Täubler), Mathematics and Antiquity (Toeplitz), The development of the concept of spirit in Greek philosophy (Stenzel).

When Jaeger emigrated to the USA in 1936, the editorship changed to his Berlin colleagues Wolfgang Schadewaldt , Bernhard Schweitzer and Johannes Stroux .

The publication of the magazine was stopped due to the war in 1944 and not resumed after 1945. However, the magazine Antike und Abendland , which appeared from 1945 and was initially published by Bruno Snell , was designated as the successor to Die Antike .

editor

literature

  • Eckart Mensching: Nugae for the history of philology IV. About U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, W. Kranz, W. Jaeger and others. Univ.-Bibliothek der Techn. Univ., Abt. Publ. 1991, ISBN 3-7983-1393-8 , pp. 91-99.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Popitz: Address at a Homer celebration of the Society for Ancient Culture , In: Die Antike , Volume 19, 1943.
  2. ↑ Werner Jaeger: Introduction , In: Die Antike Volume 1, 1925, pp. 1–4.
  3. ↑ Werner Jaeger: The education of political people and the antiquity , In: Volk im Werden , Heft 3, 1933, pp. 43–49.
  4. ↑ Manfred Landfester: The Naumburg conference “The problem of the classical and the ancient” (1939). Werner Jaeger's concept of classical music: its prerequisites and its effect. In: Hellmuth Flashar (ed.), Sabine Vogt (collaborator): Classical studies in the 20s. New questions and impulses. , Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, pp. 12-40.
  5. ↑ Cornelia Wegeler: Werner Jaeger and the "Third Humanism" , In: "... we say from the international scholarly republic." Classical studies and National Socialism. The Göttingen Institute for Classical Studies 1921-1962. , Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 1996, pp. 55-59, ISBN 3-205-05212-9
  6. ↑ Eckart Mensching: . Nugae philology-history IV About U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, W. Kranz, W. Jaeger and others. Univ.-Bibliothek der Techn. Univ., Dept. Publ. 1991, ISBN 3-7983-1393-8