Albert of Bamberg

Bamberg's gravestone in the main cemetery in Gotha

Eduard Heinrich Albert von Bamberg (born May 6, 1844 in Rudolstadt ; † January 24, 1910 in Gotha ) was a German classical philologist and grammar school director in Eberswalde (1878-1883) and Gotha (1883-1910).

origin

Albert von Bamberg was the son of the lawyer and secret government councilor Günther von Bamberg (* February 14, 1814 - January 17, 1868) and his wife Thekla Hörcher (* December 18, 1820 - August 7, 1857). After the death of his wife, he married her twin sister Louise (1820–1898) on October 11, 1859 .

Life

He attended the grammar school in his hometown Rudolstadt and then moved to the University of Göttingen to study theology and philology (with Ernst Curtius and Hermann Sauppe ). He later moved to Bonn , where Otto Jahn and especially Friedrich Ritschl influenced him. Ritschl also suggested his dissertation on two Aristophanes manuscripts in Ravenna and Venice, with which he received his doctorate in 1865 ( De Ravennate et Veneto Aristophanis codicibus , Leipzig 1865). Albert von Bamberg dedicated the writing to his father.

Subsequently, von Bamberg worked as a high school teacher in Berlin . In 1878 he went to Eberswalde , where he was appointed director of the newly founded municipal high school. He organized the school and, after five years there, brought the first students to high school. In 1883 he switched to the Gotha Gymnasium Ernestinum as headmaster , where he taught and researched until his death. In Gotha he promoted the Evangelical Union and the amalgamation of the German Protestant regional churches. He was also chairman of the main association of the German-Evangelical Federation for the Duchy of Gotha and since 1899 a member of the Academy of Non-Profit Science in Erfurt . In 1902 he was appointed a secret high school councilor for his services and was honored with a commemorative publication in 1905.

On January 24, 1910 Albert von Bamberg died unexpectedly as a result of a stroke. He was buried on January 28th in the main cemetery in Gotha . The high school graduation ceremony on March 23 was held in his memory. His estate is in the Gotha Research Library .

In addition to the preoccupation with the textual criticism of Aristophanes, von Bamberg also dealt with the Homeric theory of forms, the Greek theory of word formation and syntax as well as the Platonic dialogues Apology , Crito , Laches and Euthyphron .

family

He married Aline Fanny Angelika Herrmann on September 11, 1875 (February 26, 1856 - January 31, 1887). The couple had several children:

• Thekla Anna Christine Luise (born January 30, 1877)
• Elisabeth Aline Christiane Agnes (born February 10, 1878)
• Günther Emil Rudolf Wilhelm (born June 24, 1879)
• Hermann Karl Albert (born January 3, 1881 - † June 2, 1881)
• Konrad Friedrich Albert (born August 31, 1882 - † March 4, 1886)
• Otto Karl Anton (March 4, 1885 - November 21, 1887)
• Johanna Theodora Aline (born January 19, 1887)

After the death of his first wife, he married Johanna Louise Emilie Sophie Neumann on August 8, 1889 (born January 24, 1865).

literature

• Who is it Fourth edition, Leipzig 1909, p. 51
• Anton Bettelheim (editor): Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog . Volume 15, 1910 (1913), p. 9 *
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Albert of Bamberg. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 362.
• German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 1 (1999), p. 356
• Marcelli Janecki , Handbook of the Prussian Nobility, Volume 1, 1892, p.41

Web links

Wikisource: Albert von Bamberg  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by Albert von Bamberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Albert von Bamberg at Open Library
• Personnel form for Albert von Bamberg in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)