List of Classical Philologists at the University of Greifswald
The list of Classical Philologists at the University of Greifswald includes well-known representatives of Classical Philology who have taught at this university.
history
The first representatives of Classical Philology as an independent discipline were Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier (1796–1855) and Georg Friedrich Schömann (1793–1879) in the early 19th century . Meier founded the Philological Society in 1820, from which the Philological Seminary established by Schömann emerged in 1825. Schömann shaped several generations of students during his 50-year career. The other chair was meanwhile occupied by changing professors who either died early or moved to other universities. In 1856 a second (extraordinary, later full) chair was established for Franz Susemihl , who taught and researched in Greifswald until 1898.
Even if, besides Schömann and Susemihl, the chair of “ancient literature” and classical philology was only occupied for a few years, its owners were well-known researchers: Otto Jahn , Ludwig von Urlichs , Martin Hertz , Hermann Usener , Franz Bücheler and Wilhelm Studemund worked here one after the other.
A longer period came with the time of Adolph Kießling and Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff , who worked side by side in the 1870s and 1880s. To prepare the students, Wilamowitz founded the philological proseminar and the series of publications on Philological Studies , in which he published his own work and those of students and colleagues. After moving to Strasbourg (1889), Kießling's chair was filled with Latinists ( Friedrich Marx , Eduard Norden , Wilhelm Kroll , Carl Hosius ). Wilamowitz first recommended his friend Georg Kaibel as his successor , then his Greifswald pupil Ernst Maass .
In the 1910s and 1920s, Johannes Mewaldt , Ernst Lommatzsch , Kurt Latte and Konrat Ziegler in particular had a great impact. However, the general conditions deteriorated: in the course of the economic crisis, the extraordinary position was canceled in 1920. In the 1930s, the Graecists Franz Dornseiff and Franz Egermann taught in Greifswald; Ziegler was dismissed by the National Socialists in 1933. After the end of the war, studying classical philology in Greifswald came to a standstill for the time being: Dornseiff held a professorship in Erlangen from 1945 to 1947 and went to Greifswald just one year after his return (1948). Classical philology was represented in the GDR with only one chair and one lecturer position. After the chair holder Dietrich Ebener quit his position, the chair was not filled again.
In the 1990s, efforts to rebuild ancient studies took hold at the University of Greifswald: Chairs for Greek, Latin, ancient history and archeology were set up, which were combined in an Institute for Ancient Studies. However, the professorships were not filled in the 2000s. From 2006 to 2013 only the Graecist Michael Weißenberger , two research assistants and a lecturer for Latin represented classical studies in Greifswald.
List of Classical Philologists
The first column shows the name of the person and their life data, the second column shows entry into the university, and the third column shows their departure. Column four names the highest position achieved at the University of Greifswald. At other universities, the corresponding lecturer may have made an even more extensive scientific career. The next column names special features, the career path or other information relating to the university or the seminar. In the last column there are pictures of the lecturers.
| scientist | from | to | Functions | Remarks | image |
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| Andreas Christoph Niz (1764-1810) | 1808 | 1810 | Adjunct | Rector of the City School, Adjunct at the Philosophical Faculty; Connoisseur of Greek and Roman poetry | |
| Christian Wilhelm Ahlwardt (1760-1830) | 1817 | 1830 | Full professor | Professor of ancient literature, previously rector of the Greifswald grammar school; extensive journalistic activity in various magazines | |
| Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier (1796–1855) | 1820 | 1825 | Associate professor | Specialist in Greek law and Attic speaker (1824 with Schömann honorary doctorate in law); moved to Halle (Saale) | |
| Georg Friedrich Schömann (1793–1879) | 1820 | 1879 | Full professor | Privatdozent, 1821 sub-librarian, 1824 associate professor (without salary) and honorary doctorate in law, 1827 professor; rector of the university several times; Specialist in Greek law, religion and culture |
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| Georg Ludwig Walch (1785–1838) | 1830 | 1838 | Full professor | Successor to Ahlwardt; Specialist in Roman historiography (Livius, Tacitus) and specialist writing | |
| Rudolf Heinrich Klausen (1807-1840) | 1838 | 1840 | Full professor | Successor to Walch; Specialist in Greek tragedy and religious history | |
| Otto Jahn (1813–1869) | 1842 | 1847 | Full professor | Successor to Klaus; Philologist, archaeologist and musicologist; published his Persius edition and the Archaeological Contributions at that time ; moved to Leipzig, later to Bonn |
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| Ludwig von Urlichs (1813–1889) | 1847 | 1855 | Full professor | Successor to Jahn; Philologist and archaeologist, at the same time a Prussian member of parliament; moved to Würzburg |
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| Franz Susemihl (1826–1901) | 1852 | 1898 | Full professor | Private lecturer, associate professor in 1856, full professor in 1863; Specialist in Greek philosophy and aesthetics (Plato, Aristotle) and literary history |
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| Martin Hertz (1818–1895) | 1855 | 1862 | Full professor | Successor to Urlichs; Latinist, published his editions of Priscian and Aulus Gellius (editio minor) in Greifswald; moved to Breslau | |
| Hermann Usener (1834–1905) | 1863 | 1866 | Full professor | Successor to Hertz; Graecist and religious scholar; moved to Bonn |
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| Franz Bücheler (1837–1908) | 1866 | 1870 | Full professor | Successor to Usener; Latinist, specialist in Greek and Roman poetry and the history of the Italian language; moved to Bonn |
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| Wilhelm Studemund (1843–1889) | 1870 | 1872 | Full professor | Successor to Bücheler; Specialist in Old Latin, Roman comedy and specialist writing; moved to Strasbourg, later to Breslau |
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| Adolph Kießling (1837-1893) | 1872 | 1889 | Full professor | Successor to Studemund; Specialist in Greek historiography and Roman poetry; moved to Strasbourg | |
| Rudolf Schöll (1844-1893) | 1872 | 1874 | Full professor | Associate professor, full professor in 1873; Specialist in Greek and Roman law and Greek historiography; moved to Strasbourg, later to Munich | |
| Eduard Hiller (1845-1891) | 1874 | 1876 | Full professor | Successor to Schöll; Specialist in Greek and Roman poetry; moved to Halle (Saale) |
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| Christian Lütjohann (1846-1884) | 1876 | 1880 | Private lecturer | Specialist in Roman prose and poetry; moved to Kiel | |
| Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848–1931) | 1876 | 1883 | Full professor | Successor to Hiller; Protagonist of antiquity research of the 19th and 20th centuries, wrote in Greifswald a. a. Editions and treatises on the Homeric epics, the Attic tragedy and comedy and Callimachus; moved to Göttingen, later to Berlin |
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| Georg Kaibel (1849–1901) | 1883 | 1886 | Full professor | Successor to Wilamowitz; Specialist in Greek Comedy, Epigram Poetry, Second Sophistics and Epigraphy; moved to Strasbourg, later to Göttingen |
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| Ernst Maass (1856–1929) | 1886 | 1895 | Full professor | Successor of Kaibel; Specialist in Hellenistic poetry, orphics and scholia literature; moved to Marburg | |
| Friedrich Marx (1859-1941) | 1889 | 1893 | Full professor | Successor to Kießling; Specialist in Roman poetry and rhetoric; moved to Breslau, later to Leipzig and Bonn | |
| Eduard Norden (1868–1941) | 1893 | 1899 | Full professor | Successor of Marx; Associate professor, full professor in 1895; Specialist in ancient rhetoric ( ancient art prose , 1898), Roman poetry and the history of religion; moved to Berlin |
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| Alfred Gercke (1860–1922) | 1896 | 1909 | Full professor | Successor to Maass; Associate professor, full professor in 1896; Specialist in Greek and Roman philosophy; moved to Breslau | |
| Alfred Körte (1866–1946) | 1899 | 1903 | Associate professor | Successor to Susemihl; Specialist in New Comedy (Menander), Hellenistic poetry and papyrology; moved to Basel, later to Giessen, Freiburg and Leipzig |
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| Wilhelm Kroll (1869–1939) | 1899 | 1906 | Full professor | Successor to the north; Specialist in ancient religious history, Roman literature and rhetoric and Neoplatonism; moved to Münster, later to Breslau |
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| August Schmekel (1857-1934) | 1901 | 1927 | Full professor | Privatdozent, full-time professor in 1906, personal professor in 1921; Specialist in Greco-Roman philosophy | |
| Ludwig Radermacher (1867–1952) | 1903 | 1906 | Associate professor | Successor to Körtes; Specialist in Greco-Roman rhetoric and mythology; moved to Münster, later to Vienna | |
| Ernst Bickel (1876–1961) | 1906 | 1909 | Associate professor | Successor to Radermacher; Specialist in Greco-Roman and Christian religious history and rhetoric; moved to Kiel, later to Bonn | |
| Carl Hosius (1866–1937) | 1906 | 1913 | Full professor | Successor to Kroll; Specialist in Roman poetry and literary history; moved to Würzburg |
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| Hermann Schöne (1870–1941) | 1909 | 1916 | Full professor | Successor to Gercke; Medical historian; moved to Münster | |
| Johannes Mewaldt (1880–1964) | 1909 1916 |
1914 1923 |
Extraordinarius Ordinarius |
Bickel's successor, personal professor in Marburg from 1914–16, then successor Schöne; Specialist in Greco-Roman philosophy and history of medicine; moved to Königsberg, later to Tübingen and Vienna | |
| Ernst Lommatzsch (1871–1949) | 1913 | 1922 | Full professor | Successor to Hosius; Specialist in Roman satire and epigraphy; moved to Marburg | |
| Georg Thiele (1866–1917) | 1914 | 1917 | Associate professor | Successor to Mewaldt; Specialist in Greek rhetoric, astrology and fable poets | |
| Kurt Witte (1885–1950) | 1917 | 1920 | Associate professor | Successor to Thiele; Specialist in Greco-Roman epic; moved to Erlangen | |
| Günther Jachmann (1887–1979) | 1922 | 1922 | Full professor | Successor to Lommatzsch; Specialist in Greek epic and Roman poetry as well as Old Latin; moved to Basel, later to Cologne | |
| Walther John (1893–1971) | 1923 | 1925 | assistant | Assistant to Erich Pernice , held Greek and Latin language courses; switched to school service | |
| Kurt Latte (1891–1964) | 1923 | 1926 | Full professor | Successor to Jachmann; Specialist in Greek and Roman sacred law and the history of religion; moved to Basel, later to Göttingen | |
| Konrat Ziegler (1884–1974) | 1923 | 1933 | Full professor | Successor to Mewaldt; Specialist in Greek epic and biography; Dismissed in 1933, later lecturer in Göttingen | |
| Franz Dornseiff (1888–1960) | 1926 | 1948 | Full professor | Successor to Latte; Specialist in Greek poetry and religious history; moved to Leipzig | |
| Franz Egermann (1905-1989) | 1930 | 1942 | Associate professor | Privatdozent, associate professor in 1934 (successor to Ziegler); Specialist in Greek and Roman prose; moved to Munich | |
| Jürgen Kroymann (1911–1980) | 1954 | 1955 | Full professor | Successor to Dornseiff; Specialist in Greek historiography, translator of Roman poets; moved to Tübingen | |
| Dietrich Ebener (1920–2011) | 1957 | 1967 | Full professor | Successor to Kroymann; Translator from Greek and Latin; moved to Bergholz-Rehbrücke in 1967 as a freelance writer |
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| Otto Wittstock (* 1928) | 1970 | 1994 | Editor | Linguist, taught Greek, Latin and Indo-European language courses; Specialist in translation theory and Roman historiography (Suetonius) | |
| Martin Hose (* 1961) | 1994 | 1997 | Full professor | Professor of Greek Studies; Specialist in Greek poetry and philosophy; moved to Munich | |
| Gregor Vogt-Spira (* 1956) | 1994 | 2006 | Full professor | Professor of Latin Studies; Specialist in ancient and modern poetics; moved to Marburg | |
| Michael Weißenberger (* 1959) | 1997 | 2013 | Full professor | Successor to Hoses; Specialist in Greek Rhetoric and Second Sophistics | |
| Andreas Bagordo (* 1971) | 2006 | 2008 | Chair representative | represented the chair for Latin studies; Specialist in Roman comedy, Greek poetry and tragedy; moved to Freiburg |
literature
- Jürgen Kroymann: History of Classical Philology at the University of Greifswald . In: Wilhelm Braun u. a. (Ed.): Festschrift for the 500th anniversary of the University of Greifswald October 17, 1956. Volume 2. Greifswald 1956, pp. 120-135.
- William M. Calder III et al. a. (Ed.): Wilamowitz in Greifswald. Files from the conference for Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff's 150th birthday in Greifswald, 19. – 22. December 1998 (= Spudasmata . 81). Hildesheim [u. a.] 2000.
- Georg Rommel: Classical Philology in Greifswald 1820 to 1862. Appointment procedure in the transition from family to research university . In: Werner Buchholz (Ed.): The University of Greifswald and the German university landscape in the 19th and 20th centuries . Wiesbaden 2004, pp. 117-143.
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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)