Alfred Fleckeisen

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Alfred Fleckeisen (born September 20, 1820 in Wolfenbüttel , † August 7, 1899 in Dresden ) was a German philologist and educator .

Life

Fleckeisen attended grammar school in Helmstedt from 1829 to 1839. He then studied philology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . His teachers included Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin , Ernst von Leutsch and Friedrich Wieseler . In the autumn of 1845 he passed the state examination in Wiesbaden and at Easter 1846 began teaching at the grammar school in Weilburg as a Latin and Greek teacher.

In 1851 he was appointed to the Blochmannsche Institute in Dresden , which he left in 1854 to teach at the municipal grammar school in Frankfurt am Main with Johannes Classen . On 17 October 1856, the Faculty of Philosophy of the awarded him the University of Greifswald , the honorary doctorate to award to his scientific work. In 1874 he was accepted as a full member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences .

Fleckeisen returned to Dresden in 1861 and began to work as vice-principal at the Vitzthum grammar school . He taught there until his retirement in 1889. Fleckeisen died in Dresden in 1899 and was buried in the Trinitatisfriedhof .

Fleckeisen became known as editor of the yearbooks for philology and through his work on Plautus and Terence . A lifelong friendship connected him with Friedrich Ritschl .

literature

Hermann Usener : Fleckeisen, Alfred . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 48, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 576-583.
Rudolf Beutler : Fleckeisen, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Alfred. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 228 ( digitized version ).
Eberhard Kaus: Fleckeisen, Alfred. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 34, Bautz, Nordhausen 2013, ISBN 978-3-88309-766-4 , Sp. 321-324.
Eberhard Kaus: "What you call a good schoolboy, he certainly wasn't." Alfred Fleckeisen as a teacher, in: Bulletin of WILINABURGIA 92 (2017), No. 240, pp. 7-13

Web links

Wikisource: Alfred Fleckeisen - Sources and full texts

Literature by and about Alfred Fleckeisen in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Alfred Fleckeisen in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

^ Members of the SAW: Alfred Fleckeisen. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed on October 18, 2016 .
↑ Todtenschau . In: Dresdner Geschichtsblätter , No. 3, 1899, p. 200.

personal data
SURNAME	Fleckeisen, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fleckeiseni, Alfredi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philologist and educator
DATE OF BIRTH	September 20, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wolfenbüttel
DATE OF DEATH	August 7, 1899
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Members of the SAW: Alfred Fleckeisen. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed on October 18, 2016 .

[2] Todtenschau . In: Dresdner Geschichtsblätter , No. 3, 1899, p. 200.