Adolf Haakh

Adolf Friedrich Haakh (born April 8, 1815 in Heilbronn , † March 2, 1881 in Stuttgart ) was a German classical philologist and antiquarian .

Life

Haakhs father Benjamin Friedrich Haakh (1778–1825) was a lawyer in Heilbronn, his mother was Maria Elisabeth born. Liesching (1784-1824). He had four siblings, including his brother Carl Friedrich Haakh (1811-1851), who became a Protestant pastor.

Adolf Haakh initially studied Protestant theology , but then switched to philology and received his doctorate in Tübingen in 1839. In addition to his position as a teacher at the grammar school, he published in the JB Metzler'schen publishing bookstore . He completed August Friedrich Pauly's translation of the Letters of Seneca (1832–36) and made numerous contributions to the revision of the “Real Encyclopedia of Classical Classical Antiquities” (1837–1864), which he founded and began in the second edition by Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel . Since a trip in 1846, he also undertook art and archaeological studies. In 1856 he gave up his high school teaching position and became a managing member of the Stuttgart Art School with the title of professor. In 1863 he published his "Contributions from Württemberg to Modern German Art History" with Bruckmann in Stuttgart . Until 1876 he was also the inspector of the patriotic art and antiquity monuments. He remained loyal to classical philology in addition to his position as a curator and translated the historical work of Polybius into German from 1858–1862 .

literature

• Ernst Herzog : Adolf Haakh . In: Biographisches Jahrbuch für Alterthumskunde / Nekrologe ed. by Conrad Bursian , 4th year 1881, Calvary, Berlin 1882, pp. 8–9 full text .
• Eberhard E. von Georgii-Georgenau : Biographical-genealogical sheets from and about Swabia . Emil Müller, Stuttgart 1879, Haakh, p. 300–306, especially p. 306 ( p. 300 in Google Book Search USA ).