Agathon Benary
Karl Albert Agathon Benary (born January 17, 1807 in Kassel , † December 4, 1860 in Berlin ) was a German classical philologist .
Life
Agathon Benary was the third son of the Jewish banker Salomon Levy (1770-1828), who in 1808 took the family name Benary. Agathon Benary attended high school in Göttingen , later that in Erfurt. He then studied classical philology at the universities of Göttingen and Halle from 1824 to 1827 . There he was particularly encouraged by Karl Christian Reisig . After completing his doctorate with the thesis De Aeschyli Prometheo soluto , Benary worked as a high school teacher in Berlin, where he was able to deepen his studies at the university alongside his work . The Indo-Europeanist Franz Bopp in particular gave him decisive suggestions. Benary worked from 1833 until his death at the Köllnisches Realgymnasium and held lectures at the university as a private lecturer from 1839. His main focus in academic teaching was Greek and Latin grammar, with particular emphasis on the knowledge and methods of comparative linguistics .
Benary's linguistic (especially grammatical) research was reflected in numerous essays. His large-scale work on the Latin phonology remained unfinished: only the first volume appeared in print in 1837 ( The Roman phonology presented in a comparative way ).
After Benary's death, his son Viktor set up the Agathon Benary Foundation in 1868, which paid the school fees for five needy students at the Köllnisches Gymnasium every year. His grandson was the officer and writer Albert Agathon Benary , his daughter Eleonore Dörner .
literature
- Friedrich August Eckstein : Nomenclator philologorum . Leipzig 1871, p. 38
- August Leskien : Benary, Agathon . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 314.
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Individual evidence
- ^ So in the statute of the Benary Foundation of April 26th, 1871. Eckstein gives December 5th, 1860, Leskien inaccurate and incorrectly 1861.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Benary, Agathon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Benary, Karl Albert Agathon; Benary, Albert Agathon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 17, 1807 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th December 1860 |
| Place of death | Berlin |