Georg Ludwig Walch
Georg Ludwig Walch (born May 8, 1785 in Jena , † January 21, 1838 in Greifswald ) was a German classical philologist .
Life
Georg Ludwig Walch came from a family of pastors and scholars in Thuringia. His grandfather was the theologian Johann Georg Walch (1693–1775), his father the legal scholar Karl Friedrich Walch (1734–1799). He studied philology and philosophy at the University of Jena , worked there as a librarian from 1805 and qualified as a professor for philology in 1808. In 1811 he went as a teacher at the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster in Berlin , where he taught Latin and Greek.
During his time in Jena and Berlin, Walch devoted himself to scientific studies, particularly those of Latin literature. His text-critical studies on Livius (1815) and Tacitus , whose writings Agricola (1828) and Germania (1829) he edited, earned him great reputation. In 1830 he was appointed professor of ancient languages at the University of Greifswald . There he taught and researched until his death.
Fonts (selection)
- Riccheus van Ommeren: Horace as a person and citizen of Rome, presented in two lectures: Horatius translated from the Dutch by Ludwig Walch. Along with a critical appendix from Eichstädt . Leipzig 1802
- Meletematum criticorum specimen . Jena 1809
- Emendationes Livianae . Berlin 1815
- Memoria Georgii Ludovici Spaldingii . Berlin 1821
- Tacitus' Agrikola. Original, translation, notes, and a treatise on the art form of ancient biography . Berlin 1828
- Tacitus' Germania. Original, translation, annotations and a treatise on ancient representation in relation to purpose and context in Tacitus' Germania . Berlin 1828
literature
- Theodor Pyl : Walch, Georg Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 650.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Otto Wigand : Wigand's Conversations-Lexikon., Leipzig 1852. 766 S. ( digitized ), p. 13
First chair: Christian Wilhelm Ahlwardt (1817–1830) | Georg Ludwig Walch (1830–1838) | Rudolf Heinrich Klausen (1838–1840) | Otto Jahn (1842–1847) | Ludwig von Urlichs (1847–1855) | Martin Hertz (1855-1862) | Hermann Usener (1863–1866) | Franz Bücheler (1866–1870) | Wilhelm Studemund (1870–1872) | Adolph Kießling (1872–1889) | Friedrich Marx (1889-1893) | Eduard Norden (1893–1899) | Wilhelm Kroll (1899–1906) | Carl Hosius (1906–1913) | Ernst Lommatzsch (1913–1922) | Günther Jachmann (1922) | Kurt Latte (1923–1926) | Franz Dornseiff (1926–1948) | Jürgen Kroymann (1954–1955) | Dietrich Ebener (1957–1967) | Martin Hose (1994–1997) | Michael Weißenberger (1999-2013)
Second chair: Georg Friedrich Schömann (1827–1879) | Rudolf Schöll (1873–1874) | Eduard Hiller (1874–1876) | Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1876–1883) | Georg Kaibel (1883–1886) | Ernst Maass (1886–1895) | Alfred Gercke (1896–1909) | Hermann Schöne (1909–1916) | Johannes Mewaldt (1916–1923) | Konrat Ziegler (1923–1933) | Franz Egermann (1934–1942) | Gregor Vogt-Spira (1994-2006)
Third chair (associate professor, full professor from 1863–1898): Franz Susemihl (1856–1898) | Alfred Körte (1899–1903) | Ludwig Radermacher (1903–1906) | Ernst Bickel (1906–1909) | Johannes Mewaldt (1909–1914) | Georg Thiele (1914–1917) | Kurt Witte (1917–1920) | August Schmekel (1921–1927)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Walch, Georg Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1785 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jena |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1838 |
| Place of death | Greifswald |