Adolf Trendelenburg

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Wilhelm Gustav Adolf Trendelenburg (born August 10, 1844 in Bromberg ; † March 31, 1941 in Berlin ) was a German classical archaeologist and classical philologist .

Adolf Trendelenburg passed his A-levels at the Royal High School in Bromberg in 1862. In 1867 he passed the teaching examination at the University of Bonn , where he received his doctorate with the thesis Grammaticorum Graecorum de arte tragica iudiciorum reliquiae and in the same year began his probationary year at his grammar school in Bydgoszcz. In 1869 he was permanently employed there and in 1871 senior teacher. In 1870/71 he was able to travel to the Mediterranean area as holder of the travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute . In 1872 he moved to the Friedrichs-Gymnasium Berlin . Since the establishment of the Askanischen Gymnasium in 1875 he taught there as a senior teacher, teacher and finally from 1890 as a professor Greek and among other things inspired Karl Anton Neugebauer for the ancient world , who wrote an obituary for him in the Archäologische Anzeiger in 1941 . In 1902 he became director of the Friedrichs-Gymnasium, where he had a great influence on Otto Regenbogen , among other things . He was closely associated with the Berlin Archaeological Society . From 1881 to 1901 he was its treasurer, from 1902 to 1904 secretary and in 1912 chairman.

Bruno H. Bürgel was his illegitimate son, to whom Trendelenburg did not admit because he had been married for six years when he was born in 1875.

Fonts (selection)

  • Grammaticorvm Graecorvm de arte tragica ivdiciorvm reliqviae , Bonn 1867 (= dissertation)
  • Pausanias in Olympia , Weidmann, Berlin 1914
  • The ancient humor. A bond between poetry and the visual arts , Weidmann, Berlin 1920
  • The witch picture by Michael Herr , Grützmacher, Berlin 1925 (pictorial works as sources for Goethe's Faust, issue 2)
  • Virgil and "Homer". Personality and guild. Lecture on Virgil's 2000th birthday, October 15, 1930 , de Gruyter, Berlin 1930

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personal data
SURNAME Trendelenburg, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trendelenburg, Wilhelm Gustav Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist and classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromberg
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1941
Place of death Berlin