Adolf Busse

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Adolf Busse (born December 28, 1856 in Czarnikau , Province of Posen , † October 11, 1942 in Berlin ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher.

Life

Adolf Busse attended the grammar school in Züllichau and studied classical philology after graduating in autumn 1876. After two semesters each in Tübingen and Leipzig , he went to Berlin University for the winter semester of 1878/79 . There he belonged to the philological seminar under the direction of Adolf Kirchhoff and Johannes Vahlen and was particularly close to the philosophy historian Eduard Zeller , who introduced him to Aristotelian philosophy. On January 29, 1881 Busse was appointed Dr. phil. PhD .

After the teaching examination, Busse taught at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin , where he was also appointed high school professor. From Easter 1902 to Easter 1922 he was director of the Askanisches Gymnasium in Berlin, where the classical philologist and religious historian Otto Gruppe taught from 1876 to 1916, under whose "protectorate" a "cultural history association" was set up there immediately after Busses took office.

In addition to school service, Busse dealt intensively with Greek philosophy since Plato and Aristotle, especially with its development and reception up to late antiquity . As part of the Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca (CAG) company of the Prussian Academy of Sciences , Busse produced nine critical text editions, which appeared from 1887 to 1904 and have partly not been replaced to this day.

Adolf von Harnack and Theodor Mommsen apparently also wanted it for the planned expansion of the Prosopographia Imperii Romani to the 4th to 6th centuries, the Prosopographia Imperii Romani saeculorum IV.V.VI. win as a processor of the late antique philologists.

Adolf Busse died in Berlin in 1942 at the age of 85. He was buried in Cemetery IV of the Jerusalem and New Church on Bergmannstrasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg . The grave has not been preserved.

Fonts (selection)

Writings on Greek Philosophy

  • De praesidiis Aristotelis Politica emendandi . Diss. Phil. Berlin 1881.
  • The Neo-Platonic interpreters of the Isagogue of Porphyry . Berlin 1892 (school program)
  • Socrates . Reuther and Reichhal, Berlin 1914 ( The great educators. Their personality and their systems 7).
  • The literal sense of λόγος in Heraclitus. In: Rheinisches Museum 75, 1926, 203–214, online (PDF; 2.6 MB)
  • On the musical aesthetics of Aristotle. In: Rheinisches Museum 77, 1928, 34–50, online (PDF; 4.2 MB)

Commentaria in Aristotle Graeca

  • Porphyrii isagoge et in Aristotelis categorias commentarium . Georg Reimer, Berlin 1887 ( Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca Vol. 4 Part 1)
  • Dexippi in Aristotelis categorias commentarium . Georg Reimer, Berlin 1888 ( Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca Vol. 4 Part 2)
  • Ammonius: In Porphyrii isagogen sive V voces. Georg Reimer, Berlin 1891 ( Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca Vol. 4 Part 3)
  • Ammonius: In Aristotelis categorias commentarius . Georg Reimer, Berlin 1895 ( Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca Vol. 4 Part 4)
  • Ioannis Philoponi (olim Ammonii) in Aristotelis categorias commentarium. Georg Reimer, Berlin 1898 ( Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca. Vol. 13/1)
  • Ammonius: In Aristotelis de interpretatione commentarius . Georg Reimer, Berlin 1897 ( Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca Vol. 4 Part 5)
  • Eliae in Porphyrii Isagogen et Aristotelis Categorias commentaria . Georg Reimer, Berlin 1900 ( Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca . Vol. 18 Part 1)
  • Olympiodori prolegomena et in categorias commentarium . Georg Reimer, Berlin 1902 ( Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca Vol. 12 Part 1)
  • Davidis prolegomena et in Porphyrii Isagogen commentarium . Georg Reimer, Berlin 1904 ( Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca . Vol. 18 Part 2)

Translations

  • Aristotle: About the soul. Translated by Adolf Busse. Meiner, Leipzig 1911, 2nd revised edition, Leipzig 1922 (Philosophical Library, Vol. 4)
  • Aristotle: Philosophical Works. Edited in conjunction with Adolf Busse and Alfred Gudeman and provided with introductions, explanatory notes and registers by Eugen Rolfes . Meiner, Leipzig, 1920–1921.

School speeches

  • Our educational goals. Address at the first parents' evening at the Askanisches Gymnasium. In: Askanische Blätter, No. 11, December 1921, pp. 1–4, online (PDF; 9.1 MB)
  • (Excerpts from Busses inaugural speech as headmaster in 1902), in: Askanische Blätter, June 1955, no. 45, new series no. 9, pp. 3–5, online (PDF; 5.9 MB) (contains a profile drawing )

literature

  • Dietrich Ehlers (ed.): Hermann Diels, Hermann Usener, Eduard Zeller, correspondence . Second volume. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1992, online , p. 481 (this page not online)
  • Wilhelm Erman: Directory of the Berlin University Writings 1810–1885. In addition to an appendix containing the extraordinary and honorary doctorates. Georg Olm, Hildesheim 1973, p. 701, online
  • Peter Klepper: 125 years of the Askanisches Gymnasium and Askanische Oberschule 1875 to 2000. A chronicle of the school on the 125th anniversary of its existence. Verlag Askanische Oberschule, Berlin 2000, pp. 43–53, there p. 43 Photography, online (PDF; 202 MB)
  • Bernhard Przeradzki: 100 years of the Ascan school. A chronicle of the Askanische Oberschule for the 100th anniversary. Verlag Askanische Oberschule, Berlin, second expanded edition 1984, pp. 17-21: "Das Direktory Busse", there p. 206 the photograph "Teachers' college ... in 1908" (Busse in the middle), p. 211 Profile drawing (as above ), online (PDF; 97.4 MB)
  • Wolfgang Rösler: Hermann Diels and the fragments of the pre-Socratics , in: Annette M. Baertschi, Colin G. King (ed.), The modern fathers of antiquity. The Development of Classical Studies at the Academy and University in 19th Century Berlin. De Gruyter, Berlin 2009 (Transformations Der Antike), 369–395, there 382 online
  • Wolfgang Rösler: Eduard Zeller and Hermann Diels , in: Gerald Hartung (ed.): Eduard Zeller: Philosophy and science history in the 19th century . De Gruyter, Berlin 2010, 261–274, there 271 online
  • Emil Weber: Directorate Dr. Busse , in: Askanische Blätter, Christmas 1952, No. 41, New Series No. 4, pp. 1–2, online (PDF; 2.0 MB)
  • Hermann Usener: (Review of CAG and Supplementum Aristotelicum ), in: Göttingische Gelehre Anzeige 26, 1892, 1001-1022, ND in ders., Kleine Schriften , Volume 3: Works on Greek literary history, history of science, epigraphy. Chronology . Leipzig 1914, 193-214 online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Weber: Directorate Dr. Busse , in: Askanische Blätter, Christmas 1952, No. 41, New Series No. 4, pp. 1–2.
  2. ↑ Peter Klepper: 125 years of the Askanisches Gymnasium and Askanische Oberschule 1875 to 2000. A chronicle of the school for the 125th anniversary. Askanische Oberschule publishing house, Berlin 2000, pp. 43–53.
  3. ^ Stefan Rebenich : Theodor Mommsen and Adolf Harnack: Science and politics in Berlin at the end of the 19th century. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1997, pp. 247-326. there p. 292, online
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 288.
  5. ↑ In addition Rainer Bast: The Philosophical Library. History and bibliography of a series of philosophical texts since 1868. Meiner, Hamburg 1991, p. 121, online
personal data
SURNAME Busse, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Czarnikau , Poznan Province
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1942
Place of death Berlin