Adolf Brieger

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Adolf Brieger

Heinrich Friedrich Adolf Brieger (born October 12, 1832 in Rönkendorf , Western Pomerania , † January 17, 1912 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher .

Life

After graduating from high school in Greifswald in September 1853, Brieger began to study Protestant theology and philology at the University of Greifswald ; he later limited himself to classical philology. In 1856 he became a member of the Greifswald fraternity Rugia . On August 14, 1857 he was at the University of Greifswald to Dr. phil. PhD.

In September 1858 he began the probationary year at the municipal high school in Greifenberg in Pomerania . On December 28, 1858 he passed the exam pro facultate docendi in philosophy , German , history , religion in Greifswald . Since April 1860 he was a teacher at the Gymnasium zu Stolp , from where he was forcibly transferred to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium (Posen) in October 1863 because of his agitation against the Prussian army reform . In April 1876 he moved to the city ​​high school in Halle . In 1887 he became a senior teacher . In 1893 he received the character of high school professor and the rank of councilors IV class. When he left school on April 1, 1899, the Crown Prussia awarded him the Red Eagle Order IV class.

On March 20, 1863 he married Marie Mancke in Stolp (* July 2, 1837 in Stolp; † March 10, 1928 in Halle).

Works (selection)

  • Lucretius - Of the essence of things . Poznan, 1866
  • Croesus and Adrastus - an epic in two songs . Poznan 1870
  • Contributions to the criticism of some of Cicero's philosophical writings . Poznan 1873
  • Epicurus's letter to Herodotus, J 68-93 , translated and explained by A. Brieger. Hall, 1882
  • The original movement of the atoms and the origin of the world in Leucippus and Democritus . Hall 1884
  • with Kurt von Rohrscheidt: Saxon-Thuringian book of poets . Hall 1885
  • King Humbert in Naples. A poem . Leipzig 1885.
  • Die and become! . Grossenhain u. Leipzig, 171 pp., 1891
  • Epicurus's doctrine of the soul . Hall 1893
  • T [iti] Lucreti Cari de rerum natura libri sex , 5 ed. 1894–1914
  • with J. Paulson and others: Index Lucretianus . Gothenburg 1911

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 92–93.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kössler's teachers' dictionary (GEB) (PDF; 10.8 MB)
  2. ↑ Dissertation: De fontibus librorum XXXIII, XXXIV, XXXV, XXXVI, naturalis historiae Plinianae, quatenus ad artem plasticam pertinent (On the sources of the art history of the older Pliny)
  3. ↑ a b c d Program Posen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium 1864
  4. ↑ a b Program Halle City High School
personal data
SURNAME Brieger, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brieger, Heinrich Friedrich Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Rönkendorf , Western Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1912
Place of death Halle (Saale)