Édouard Tièche
Édouard Tièche (born March 21, 1877 in Bern ; † May 23, 1962 ibid) was a Swiss classical philologist who worked as a high school teacher (1907-1932) and university professor (1932-1943) in Bern.
Life
Édouard Tièche, whose town was Reconvilier, grew up in Bern and spoke fluent German, English and French. He began studying classical philology in 1877, but interrupted it in 1899 and went to Russia as the Grand Duke's tutor. After six years he returned to the University of Bern and completed his studies there. When Karl Praechter he was in 1907 with a dissertation on the early form of the text of the Septuagint doctorate , which in 1910 Byzantine magazine appeared.
After graduating, Tièche worked as a teacher at the literary school of the municipal high school in Bern. He was close friends with the former rector Georg Finsler . In addition to teaching, Tièche also made contributions to educational policy and science. In 1926 he was appointed rector of the grammar school.
His reputation as a teacher and scientist earned him a professorship at the University of Bern, although he did not qualify as a professor . On October 31, 1931, Tièche was appointed full professor of classical philology with special emphasis on Greek, as the successor to Otto Schulthess , for whom he wrote an obituary and a list of writings ( list of writings published by Otto Schulthess (1862-1939): compiled by E. Tièche , Bern 1941). He gave his inaugural lecture on the tragedy writer Thespis . In 1943 Tièche resigned from his chair at the age of 65 and became emeritus . He still gave occasional lectures at the university, but mainly occupied himself with his research. In addition to numerous essays on various topics of antiquity, Tièche published Georg Finsler's letters to the Berlin Graecist Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (Bern 1956) in 1956, which offer an illuminating insight into the scientific discourse of the early 20th century.
literature
- Willy Theiler : Édouard Tièche † . In: Gnomon , Vol. 35 (1963), pp. 430-431.
Web links
- Christian Baertschi: Édouard Tièche. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Literature by and about Édouard Tièche in the catalog of the German National Library
Greek Studies : Karl Jahn (1834–1854) | Otto Ribbeck (1856–1861) | Hermann Usener (1861–1863) | Johann Melchior Knaus (1863–1878) | Hermann Hagen (1878–1898) | Karl Praechter (1897–1907) | Otto Schulthess (1907–1932) | Édouard Tièche (1932–1943) | Willy Theiler (1944–1968) | Thomas Gelzer (1970–1991) | Heinz-Günther Nesselrath (1992–2001) | Arnd Kerkhecker (since 2003)
Latin Studies I: Georg Rettig (1834–1878) | Hermann Hitzig (1878–1886) | Friedrich Haag (1887–1906) | Wilhelm Havers (1915–1920) | Albert Debrunner (1920–1925) | Oskar von Allmen (1931–1932) | Walter Wili (1933–1966) | Max Imhof (1970–1992)
Latin Studies II: Olof Gigon (1948–1982) | Christoph Schäublin (1982–2002) | Martin Korenjak (2003–2009) | Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich (since 2009)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tièche, Édouard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tièche, Charles Édouard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 1962 |
| Place of death | Bern |