Hans Joachim Mette

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Hans Joachim Mette (born April 29, 1906 in Lübeck ; † April 13, 1986 in Munich ) was a German classical philologist who worked as a lecturer and professor in Hamburg (1950–1974).

Life

After high school at Lübeck Katharineum Mette began in 1924 to study classical philology at the University of Kiel . His teachers there included Felix Jacoby , Eduard Fraenkel , Christian Jensen and Julius Stenzel . In 1926 he applied for admission to the Berlin Philological Seminar with a Latin thesis on the end of the seven against Thebes , where he became one of Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff's last pupils . Wilamowitz wrote the supplementary lecture for his doctorate under Werner Jaeger (1930) with the dissertation De Cratetis Mallotae memoria Varroniana . After completing her doctorate, Mette received a scholarship from the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft and worked for three years at the Nietzsche Archive in Weimar. He was entrusted with the editing of Nietzsche's philological works and later also edited the early writings. With the responsible Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche , Mette came into conflict because of her questionable editorial principles. Mette later edited other writings by Nietzsche together with Karl Schlechta .

Mette has been a supporter of the NSDAP since the summer of 1931 , which he joined on May 1, 1933 (membership no. 2.197.652).

In 1933 Mette became a research assistant to his former teacher Christian Jensen in Bonn . He achieved his habilitation in 1935 with a thesis on the cosmology of the Krates von Mallos . In 1937 Mette was drafted for military service and then for military exercises, while his assistant position was filled again. After the outbreak of World War II , Mette was stationed as an infantryman in France , Sicily and North Africa . Here he was taken prisoner of war as a first lieutenant in 1943. In his three years imprisonment, he built a camp college and took Latinums and Graecum exams. In May 1946 Mette was able to return to Bonn, where he found his apartment and library destroyed. He earned his living with Latin and Greek courses at the community college and studied until 1949 Jura .

As part of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae company , Bruno Snell appointed Mette to Hamburg in 1950 as editor of the Lexicon of the Early Greek Epic . In 1952 Mette was able to complete his habilitation in Hamburg, in 1954 he was appointed associate professor and married the Indologist Adelheid Bartolomäus . In the same year, he turned down a call to the chair of the University of Rostock . When a new chair for classical philology was established at the University of Hamburg in 1964, Mette was appointed full professor. In 1974 he retired and moved to Munich to live with his wife. He died here in 1986 at the age of 79.

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Hans Joachim Mette's nearly 200 writings focus on Homer , ancient drama, the Hellenistic history of science and philosophy , ancient literary criticism , Roman poetry, Roman law and Cicero , but they cover numerous other fields. With his decade-long collection of the fragments of Aeschylus with his edition The Fragments of the Tragedies of Aeschylus (1959), he provided important preparatory work for Stefan Radt's new edition .

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  1. ↑ George Leaman: Heidegger in context. Complete overview of the Nazi involvement of university philosophers. From the American by Rainer Alisch and Thomas Laugstien. Argument (special volume AS 205), Hamburg and Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-88619-205-9 . P. 93
personal data
SURNAME Mette, Hans Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1986
Place of death Munich