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Moritz Vermehren (right) with his wife Adele nee from Hase (1881)

Ferdinand Bernhard Moritz Vermehren (born April 10, 1829 in Jena ; † April 2, 1893 ibid) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher. He worked at various schools in Jena and from 1864 to 1893 at the same time as an associate professor at the university there .

Life

Moritz Vermehren came from a Lübeck patrician family . His grandfather Johann Bernhard Vermehren (1777–1803) came to Jena as a student and stayed there as a poet and private lecturer at the philosophical faculty. His parents were the lawyer Friedrich Bernhard Vermehren (1802–1871) and Charlotte b. Schuderoff. His father was initially a private lecturer at the law faculty of the University of Jena, but in 1829 he went to Hildburghausen as a court assessor , where he was promoted to the higher regional court counselor; In 1844 he returned to the Higher Appeal Court in Jena as a secret judge.

Moritz Vermehren attended grammar school in Hildburghausen from 1838 and studied classical philology in Jena and Berlin from 1848 to 1852 . After graduation and the doctorate to Dr. phil. he initially worked as a private tutor in various bourgeois houses until, in 1855, through the mediation of the curator Moritz Seebeck, he became tutor to the Hereditary Grand Duke Karl August von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach . He held this position for eight years. During this time he went on an extensive educational tour of Italy with the prince. In 1862 the Grand Duke awarded him the House Order of the White Falcon (First Class Knight).

After Vermehren left the service of the grand ducal in 1863, he taught at the Zenker educational institution in Jena. After the publication of his studies on the philosopher Aristotle , the philosophical faculty of the University of Jena appointed him extraordinary professor of classical philology in 1864. Vermehren remained active in school and university until the end of his life. In 1876 he was employed as a senior teacher at the newly founded Carolo-Alexandrinum grammar school , where he mainly gave Greek language lessons. He hardly got any scientific publications; after the Platonic Studies (1870) he published a short treatise on the Capitoline Temple in Rome only at the instigation of his high school college in 1879 .

In the last years of his life, Vermehren increasingly suffered from anemia . In the winter of 1892/93 he sought to be released from school service, which was granted to him by a ministerial order of February 14, 1893 at the end of the school year. But shortly after retiring, in the early morning hours of Easter Sunday 1893, Vermehren died of a cerebral haemorrhage .

Moritz Vermehren was married from 1861 to Adele von Hase (1833–1916), the daughter of Jena theology professor Karl von Hase (1800–1890). A daughter of the couple, Else Increase was home daughter with her grandparents from Hare and later married the physician Georg Leubuscher (1858-1916). Another daughter, Helene Pauline Vermehren (1867–1963), married the theologian Gustav Krüger (1862–1940) in 1889 .

Fonts

• Aristotelian scriptures. First booklet: On the Nicomachean Ethics . Leipzig 1864
• Platonic Studies . Leipzig 1870
• The Capitoline Temple of Jupiter in Rome . Jena 1879 (school program)

literature

• Friedrich August Eckstein : Nomenclator philologorum . Leipzig 1871, p. 589
• Karl Alfred von Hase : Our house chronicle. History of the Hase family over four centuries . Leipzig 1898, p. 215 (picture)
• Annual report on the Carolo-Alexandrinum grammar school in Jena from Easter 1892 to Easter 1893 . Jena 1893, p. 12

Web links

Wikisource: Moritz Vermehren  - Sources and full texts