Siegfried Brewhouse

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Siegfried Sudhaus (born July 9, 1863 in Treptow an der Rega ; † October 23, 1914 at Bixschoote, Flanders ) was a German classical philologist and papyrologist and from 1901 professor at the Institute for Classical Philology at the University of Kiel . He became known for his text-critical and editorial contributions to Menander and Philodemos von Gadara .

Life

Karl Anton Siegfried Sudhaus was the son of the high school teacher Carl Friedrich Sudhaus (1832-1888). His brother was the Protestant pastor Paul Sudhaus , who emigrated to southern Brazil in 1894; his sister Hildegard Sudhaus , a teacher, later became head of the brewhouse school in Hanover. Siegfried Sudhaus passed the final exam at the grammar school in his hometown at Easter 1881 and studied classical philology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn with Franz Bücheler and Hermann Usener . A semester at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin with Hermann Diels , Adolf Kirchhoff and Johannes Vahlen rounded off his studies. He had a lifelong friendship with his fellow students Albrecht Dieterich and Richard Wünsch .

On February 19, 1887, Sudhaus passed the first state examination in Latin , Greek and German. As a one-year volunteer , he became a reserve lieutenant in 1888 . He completed his probationary year at the Royal Prussian Gymnasium in Bonn . On April 1, 1892, he received his first permanent position at the municipal high school in Bonn.

At the same time, Sudhaus was also pursuing its academic career. On July 8, 1892, he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . PhD. In the following years he wrote several essays on the textual criticism of Philodemos von Gadara, which he published in the Rheinisches Museum für Philologie . Habilitated on March 4, 1899 , he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute , which enabled him to research the papyrus fragments of Philodemos.

On August 6, 1901, he accepted the call from the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel (CAU) to the chair of classical philology. Two of his students there were the classical philologist Hermann Mutschmann and the classical philologist Paul Wendland . In 1912/13 he was rector of the CAU. In his rector's speech on March 5, 1912, he dealt with King Oedipus' guilt . On September 18, 1913, he was appointed a secret councilor.

Siegfried Sudhaus married his cousin Anna Sudhaus (father: Carl Wilhelm Sudhaus) on March 14, 1904 , who until then had been the head of the private brewhouse school in Hanover. They had two sons.

When the First World War broke out , Sudhaus volunteered . He came to the Western Front and died on October 23, 1914 at the age of 51 in the First Battle of Flanders .

His scholarly documents on the Herculan papyri came into the possession of his student Christian Jensen and after his death (1940) were recovered by Wolfgang Schmid in 1943 from the cellar of Jensen's destroyed house. After Schmid's death (1980) the material came into the possession of his pupil Karl August Neuhausen , who passed it on to Jürgen Hammerstaedt in 2007 .

literature

  • Hans Lietzmann : Siegfried Sudhaus † October 23, 1915. in: Hundred Years: A. Marcus and E. Webers Verlag, 1818–1918. Bonn 1919, pp. 53-54.
  • Friedrich Volbehr , Richard Weyl: Professors and lecturers at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel 1665 to 1915. Kiel 1916, p. 121.
  • Friedrich Vollmer : Siegfried Brewhouse. in: Biographisches Jahrbuch für Altertumskunde. Volume 173 (1917), pp. 65-81.
  • Jürgen Hammerstaedt : Christian Jensen's and Wolfgang Schmid's Unpublished Herculanean Papers: A Preliminary Report on the Content and the Relevance of the Material. In: Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Papyrology. on-line

Web links

Wikisource: Siegfried Sudhaus  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. Friedrich Sudhaus's personal data sheet in the BIL's personal file in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)
  2. Self-declaration in his personal form, see web links
  3. Dissertation Prolegomena ad Philodemi rhetorica.
  4. Rector's speech (HKM)