Georg Curtius
Georg Curtius (born April 16, 1820 in Lübeck , † August 12, 1885 in Hermsdorf am Kynast ) was a German philologist . He was the brother of the historian and archaeologist Ernst Curtius .
Live and act
Like his brothers, Curtius attended the Katharineum in Lübeck , which he graduated from Michaelis in 1837 with the Abitur. After studying in Bonn and Berlin, he was a schoolmaster in Dresden for three years. In 1845 he returned to the University of Berlin as a private lecturer . With the publication The Formation of Tempora and Modi in Greek and Latin , which he had dedicated to his professor Friedrich Ritschl in 1846 , there was at the same time content- related overlaps with the comparative linguistic studies of August Schleicher , with whom he was later friendly. In 1849 he became head of the philological seminar in Prague and two years later professor of classical philology at Prague University .
In 1854 he moved from Prague to a similar position in Kiel, in 1862 he went from Kiel to Leipzig.
His philological theories had far-reaching influence. His most important writings are
- The comparison of languages in their relation to classical philology (1845)
- Comparative contributions to Greek and Latin grammar (1846)
- Basics of Greek Etymology (1858–1862, 5th edition 1879)
- The Verb of the Greek Language (1873).
From 1878 Curtius was the editor of the Leipzig Studies for Classical Philology . In 1879 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . His Greek School Grammar, first published in 1852, had more than twenty editions and was also published in English. In his last work, On the Critique of the Latest Linguistic Research (1885), he criticized the views of the school of young grammarians .
literature
- Wilhelm Haan : Georg Curtius . In: Saxon Writer's Lexicon . Robert Schaefer's Verlag, Leipzig 1875, pp. 42–43.
- Georg Curtius: To the criticism of the latest linguistic research. Hirzel, Leipzig 1885 ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
- Curtius smaller works were published after his death by Ernst Windisch : Kleine Schriften von EC (1886–1887).
- Richard Meister : Curtius, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, pp. 597-602.
- For more information see the article by Ernst Windisch in Conrad Bursian's Biographical Yearbook for Antiquity (1886).
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg Curtius in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Georg Curtius in the German Digital Library
- Georg Curtius in the Internet Archive
- Overview of Georg Curtius lectures at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1862 to winter semester 1885)
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907), No. 342.
- ^ August Schleicher: Comparative language studies. / On the comparative history of language. (2 vol.) Bonn, HB König (1848)
First chair: Georg Curtius (1849–1854) | Ludwig Lange (1855-1859) | Franz Hochegger (1859–1860) | Alfred Ludwig (1860–1871) | Gustav Linker (1871–1881) | Otto Keller (1881–1909) | Otto Plasberg (1909–1911) | Alfred Klotz (1911–1920) | Edgar Martini (1922–1932) | Maximilian Adler (1937–1939) | Viktor Stegemann (1943–1945)
Second chair: Georg Bippart (1852–1883) | Carl Holzinger (1883–1921) | Siegfried Reiter (1922–1933)
Third chair: Jan Kvíčala (1861–1882) | Alois Rzach (1883–1923) | Theodor Hopfner (1923-1945)
First chair (since 1972 C3 professorship): Karl Friedrich Heinrich (1804–1818) | Wilhelm Wachsmuth (1820–1825) | Gregor Wilhelm Nitzsch (1827-1852) | Georg Curtius (1854–1862) | Otto Ribbeck (1862–1872) | August Wilmanns (1873–1874) | Eduard Lübbert (1874–1881) | Richard Foerster (1881–1890) | Ivo Bruns (1890–1901) | Siegfried Brewhouse (1901–1914) | Werner Jaeger (1915–1921) | Christian Jensen (1921–1926) | Manfred Fuhrmann (1962–1966) | Antonie Wlosok (1968–1972) | Herbert Juhnke (1972–1997) | Lore Benz (1997-2001) | Hans Bernsdorff (2002–2003) | Jan Radicke (since 2004)
Second chair: Friedrich Blass (1881–1892) | Alfred Schöne (1892–1902) | Paul Wendland (1902–1906) | Felix Jacoby (1907-1935) | Erich Burck (1938–1969) | Ernst Doblhofer (1971–1984) | Konrad Heldmann (1985-2005) | Thorsten Burkard (since 2005)
Third chair (until 1921 extraordinary): Johann Matthias Schultz (1802–1846) | Erwin Rohde (1872–1876) | Friedrich Blass (1876–1881) | Friedrich Leo (1881–1883) | Christian Lütjohann (1884) | Ivo Bruns (1886–1890) | Otto Rossbach (1890–1895) | Ernst Bickel (1909–1921) | Johannes Stroux (1922–1923) | Eduard Fraenkel (1923–1928) | Richard Harder (1930-1941) | Hans Diller (1942–1973) | Ernst-Richard Schwinge (1976–1999) | Lutz Käppel (since 1999)
First chair (from 1985 Greek studies ): Johann Friedrich Christ (1739–1756) | Johann August Ernesti (1756–1770) | August Wilhelm Ernesti (1770–1801) | Gottfried Hermann (1803–1848) | Reinhold Klotz (1849–1870) | Ludwig Lange (1871–1885) | Kurt Wachsmuth (1886–1905) | Erich Bethe (1906–1931) | Jürgen Werner (1985–1996) | Kurt Sier (since 1996)
Second chair (since 1974 Latin studies ): Friedrich Wolfgang Reiz (1782–1785) | Christian Daniel Beck (1785-1819) | Friedrich August Wilhelm Spohn (1819–1824) | Christian Daniel Beck (1825-1832) | Anton Westermann (1834–1865) | Friedrich Ritschl (1865–1876) | Otto Ribbeck (1877–1898) | Friedrich Marx (1899–1906) | Richard Heinze (1906–1929) | Friedrich Klingner (1930–1947) | Franz Dornseiff (1948–1960) | Walter Hofmann (1974–1990) | Ekkehard Stark (1992-2001) | Marcus Deufert (since 2003)
Third chair: Otto Jahn (1847–1850) | Gregor Wilhelm Nitzsch (1852–1861) | Georg Curtius (1862-1885) | Erwin Rohde (1886)
Fourth chair: Justus Hermann Lipsius (1877–1914) | Bruno Keil (1914–1916) | Alfred Körte (1917–1934) | Wolfgang Schadewaldt (1934–1941) | Karl Reinhardt (1942–1946)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Curtius, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 1885 |
| Place of death | Hermsdorf am Kynast , district of Jelenia Góra |