Hermann Wankel
Hermann Wankel (born December 28, 1928 in Simonshofen ; † May 29, 1997 ) was a German classical philologist .
Hermann Wankel's family has members of the upper bourgeoisie and clergy, master craftsmen and pastors among the ancestors. On an altarpiece designed by Lucas Cranach in Colmberg there is a depiction of one of Wankel's ancestors, showing him together with Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon . Both of his parents were teachers. As a 15-year-old he contracted a chronic suppuration of the bone marrow while harvesting during the Second World War , which at that time could only be treated by artificially stiffening the hip joint. That should hinder Wankel all his life and be chronically painful. After graduating from high school, he studied at the Philosophical-Theological University of Bamberg , the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg . In 1953 Wankel passed the state examination in Würzburg and initially went to school in North Rhine-Westphalia from 1955 to 1971 . During this time he worked on his doctoral thesis Kalos kai agathos , which he received in 1961 in Würzburg. Rudolf Kassel brought him to the Free University of Berlin in 1971 as a research assistant . In 1974 Wankel completed his habilitation there. In 1976, he went first as a lecturer at the University of Cologne and was later adjunct professor there. In 1981 he switched to the chair at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . There he was director of the Institute for Antiquities and in 1984 dean of his department, in 1991 he retired.
Wankel's main plant is a 1,376-page commentary on the wreath speech of Demosthenes , which was published 1976th It is the most comprehensive commentary on this work, in which every line of the work is carefully analyzed philologically and historically. In an obituary, Reinhold Merkelbach estimated that Wankel had read more than 4,000 pages of original Greek text and 100,000 pages of secondary literature. Another significant achievement was the publication of a volume of inscriptions from Ephesus .
Fonts (selection)
- Demosthenes, speech for Ctesiphon on the wreath , Heidelberg, Winter 1976, ISBN 3-533-02557-8 and ISBN 3-533-02558-6 .
- The inscriptions from Ephesus. Part 1.a: No. 1 -47 , Habelt, Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-7749-1635-7 ( inscriptions of Greek cities from Asia Minor , vol. 11).
literature
- Reinhold Merkelbach : Hermann Wankel † . In: Gnomon 70 (1998), p. 573f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermann Wankel in the catalog of the German National Library
First chair: Hermann Ludwig Nadermann (1821–1853) | Ferdinand Deycks (1843–1867) | Peter Langen (1868–1897) | Peter Sonnenburg (1898–1928) | Franz Beckmann (1931–1963) | Hermann Tränkle (1963–1972) | Christian Gnilka (1972-2002) | Christine Schmitz (since 2002)
Second chair: Franz Winiewski (1838–1874) | Johann Matthias Stahl (1874–1906) | Wilhelm Kroll (1906–1913) | Richard Wünsch (1913–1915) | Hermann Schöne (1916–1935) | Walter Eberhardt (1937–1946) | Friedrich Mehmel (1947–1951) | Richard Harder (1952–1957) | Gerhard Müller (1958–1962) | Martin Sicherheitsl (1963–1982) | Wolfgang Huebner (1986-2004) | Alexander Arweiler (since 2004)
Third chair (until 1918 extraordinary): Franz Ignaz Schwerdt (1861–1868) | Adalbert Parmet (1869–1898) | Carl Hosius (1897–1906) | Ludwig Radermacher (1906–1909) | Karl Münscher (1909–1936) | Rudolf Güngerich (1951–1953) | Hermann Kleinknecht (1953–1960) | Heinrich Dörrie (1961–1980) | Hermann Wankel (1981–1991) | Adolf Köhnken (1992–2002) | Christian Pietsch (since 2003)
Fourth chair: Otto Hiltbrunner (1962–1979)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wankel, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Simonshofen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 1997 |