Adolf Emperius

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Adolf Karl Wilhelm Emperius (born May 29, 1806 in Braunschweig ; † August 17, 1844 there ) was a German classical philologist , historian and teacher at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig.

Life

Emperius was the son of Johann Ferdinand Friedrich Emperius and thus belonged to an important Brunswick family; his sister Caroline (1799–1882) was the mother of the mathematician Richard Dedekind . He visited the Katharineum in his hometown and then the Collegium Carolinum there, a forerunner of the TU Braunschweig , to which he later returned as a teacher. In 1825 Emperius began studying classical philology in Leipzig with Gottfried Hermann , who strongly influenced him as a text critic. He later continued his studies in Berlin and (from 1828) in Göttingen , there especially with Karl Otfried Müller . In 1829 he received his doctorate in Göttingen with the dissertation De temporum belli Mithridatici primi ratione . After the death of the philosopher Friedrich Ludewig Bouterweck , who had supported him , Emperius gave up the plan of a career as a university lecturer at a university via the path of the private lecturer and returned to the Collegium Carolinum, where he had been teaching history since 1829 and professor in 1835 , Became a full professor in 1842. Here Emperius not only taught ancient languages, but also gave lectures on mythology, art, archeology and the history of Braunschweig for a wider audience. Emperius also gave history lessons at the Braunschweig cadet school. His research focused on the writings of Dion Chrysostom , which he published in a critical edition in 1844. Emperius thus made a valuable contribution to the restoration of the heavily corrupted text, which Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff praised even decades later in his History of Philology (Berlin 1921, p. 66).

In the same year Emperius died surprisingly after a short, serious illness. His scientific contributions, including his dissertation and historical treatises on the national history of Braunschweig, were collected by his former fellow students Heinrich Ludolf Ahrens , Ferdinand Bamberger and Karl Sintenis and by Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin for the numerous text-critical remarks, including the use of Emperius' own personal copies published under the title Adolphi Emperii Brunopolitani Opuscula philologica et historica (Göttingen 1847).

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SURNAME Emperius, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Emperius, Adolf Karl Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist, historian and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1844
Place of death Braunschweig