Alfred Körte
Alfred Körte (born September 5, 1866 in Berlin , † September 6, 1946 in Leipzig ) was a German classical philologist . He made outstanding contributions to the comedy writer Menander through his research, editing and translating activities, as well as through his discovery of the ancient city of Gordion .
Life
Alfred Körte was one of ten children of the doctor Friedrich Körte (1818–1914) and his wife Marie, b. Thaer (1832-1898). His siblings included the archaeologist Gustav Körte (1852-1917), the surgeon Werner Körte (1853-1937), the architect Friedrich Körte (1854-1934), the painter Martin Körte (1857-1929) and the Königsberg mayor Siegfried Körte ( 1861-1919).
Körte studied classical philology at the universities of Berlin and Bonn , among others with Hermann Usener , and received his doctorate in Bonn in 1890. From 1895 he was a lecturer here and completed his habilitation in 1896 . In 1899 he accepted an appointment as associate professor at the University of Greifswald . In 1903 he switched to a full professorship at the University of Basel as the successor to Erich Bethe . In 1906 he followed Bethe to the University of Giessen . In 1914 he moved to Freiburg , in 1917 to Leipzig , where he worked until his retirement in 1934. Until 1926 was the director of the student welfare in Leipzig . In November 1933 he was one of the signatories of the professors' commitment at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state .
Körte was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and the German Archaeological Institute .
Alfred Körte was married to Frieda Gropius (1873–1963), a daughter of the architect Martin Gropius , from 1896 . They had three daughters and two sons, one of whom was the art historian Werner Körte , who both died in World War II .
Services
In 1895, after carefully studying the sources and the topography, he discovered the Phrygian city of Gordion in Asia Minor, where he and his brother Gustav carried out excavations in 1900.
After the extensive papyrus finds by the poet Menander in 1905, Körte obtained the relevant edition, which was only partially overtaken by new finds after his death. He also got a translation of the comedies, which was published by Insel-Verlag. Körte's work around Menander is also highlighted in Webster's obituary.
Körte was the best connoisseur of Greek comedy of his time and added numerous articles to the Realencyklopädie of classical antiquity . He also dealt with Hellenistic poetry. Together with his friend Richard Heinze , he published the magazine Hermes from 1923 . For the volume dedicated to Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff in 1932, he contributed an article Character , which gave an extract from his Menander studies.
Publications (selection)
- with Gustav Körte: Gordion. Results of the excavations in 1900 . Berlin 1904 ( digitized version ).
- Menandrea. Ex papyris et membranis vetustissimis . Leipzig 1910.
- The Greek Comedy (= From Nature and Spiritual World, Vol. 400). Leipzig 1914.
- The Hellenistic Poetry . Leipzig 1925.
literature
- Erich Burck : Leipzig 1921–1925: Richard Heinze (1867–1929), Alfred Körte (1866–1946), Erich Bethe (1863–1940) . In: Eikasmós . Volume 4, 1993, pp. 61-70.
- Andreas Thierfelder : Körte, Alfred. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 394 ( digitized version ).
- TBL Webster : Alfred Körte †. In: Gnomon . Volume 21, 1949, pp. 179-180.
Web links
- Literature by and about Alfred Körte in the catalog of the German National Library
- Alfred Körte in the professorial catalog of Leipzig University
First chair: Christian Wilhelm Ahlwardt (1817–1830) | Georg Ludwig Walch (1830–1838) | Rudolf Heinrich Klausen (1838–1840) | Otto Jahn (1842–1847) | Ludwig von Urlichs (1847–1855) | Martin Hertz (1855-1862) | Hermann Usener (1863–1866) | Franz Bücheler (1866–1870) | Wilhelm Studemund (1870–1872) | Adolph Kießling (1872–1889) | Friedrich Marx (1889-1893) | Eduard Norden (1893–1899) | Wilhelm Kroll (1899–1906) | Carl Hosius (1906–1913) | Ernst Lommatzsch (1913–1922) | Günther Jachmann (1922) | Kurt Latte (1923–1926) | Franz Dornseiff (1926–1948) | Jürgen Kroymann (1954–1955) | Dietrich Ebener (1957–1967) | Martin Hose (1994–1997) | Michael Weißenberger (1999-2013)
Second chair: Georg Friedrich Schömann (1827–1879) | Rudolf Schöll (1873–1874) | Eduard Hiller (1874–1876) | Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1876–1883) | Georg Kaibel (1883–1886) | Ernst Maass (1886–1895) | Alfred Gercke (1896–1909) | Hermann Schöne (1909–1916) | Johannes Mewaldt (1916–1923) | Konrat Ziegler (1923–1933) | Franz Egermann (1934–1942) | Gregor Vogt-Spira (1994-2006)
Third chair (associate professor, full professor from 1863–1898): Franz Susemihl (1856–1898) | Alfred Körte (1899–1903) | Ludwig Radermacher (1903–1906) | Ernst Bickel (1906–1909) | Johannes Mewaldt (1909–1914) | Georg Thiele (1914–1917) | Kurt Witte (1917–1920) | August Schmekel (1921–1927)
First chair: Emanuel Linder (1819–1843) | Wilhelm Vischer-Bilfinger (1832–1861) | Otto Ribbeck (1861–1862) | Adolph Kießling (1862–1869) | Friedrich Nietzsche (1869–1879) | Jacob Wackernagel (1879–1902) | Ferdinand Sommer (1902–1909) | Rudolf Herzog (1909–1914) | Werner Jaeger (1914–1915) | Peter von der Mühll (1917–1952) | Bernhard Wyss (1952–1976) | Joachim Latacz (1981-2002) | Anton Bierl (since 2002).
Second chair: Franz Dorotheus Gerlach (1819–1875) | Jacob Achilles Mähly (1875–1890) | Georg Ferdinand Dümmler (1890–1896) | Erich Bethe (1897–1903) | Alfred Körte (1903–1906) | Hermann Schöne (1906–1909) | Friedrich Münzer (1909–1912) | Ernst Lommatzsch (1912–1913) | Walter F. Otto (1913–1914) | Johannes Stroux (1914–1922) | Günther Jachmann (1922–1925) | Kurt Latte (1925–1931) | Harald Fuchs (1932–1970) | Josef Delz (1970–1987) | Fritz Graf (1987–1999) | Jerzy Styka (2000-2001) | Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer (since 2002).
Third chair: Franz Misteli (1879–1898) | Max Niedermann (1911–1925) | Jacob Wackernagel (1915–1936) | Albert Debrunner (1940–1949) | Karl Meuli (1942–1961) | Felix Heinimann (1966–1980).
Chair I (since 1962 focus on Greek studies ): Friedrich Karl Rumpf (1809–1823) | Friedrich Gotthilf Osann (1825–1858) | Ludwig Lange (1859–1871) | Eduard Lübbert (1871–1874) | Adolf Philippi (1874-1893) | Eduard Schwartz (1893–1897) | Albrecht Dieterich (1897–1903) | Erich Bethe (1903–1906) | Alfred Körte (1906–1913) | Rudolf Herzog (1913–1936) | Albrecht von Blumenthal (1940–1945) | Gerhard Müller (1962–1976) | Egert Pöhlmann (1976–1980) | Manfred Landfester (1980–2002) | Peter von Möllendorff (since 2003)
Chair II (since 1962 focus on Latin studies ): Heinrich Friedrich Pfannkuche (1803–1832) | Wilhelm Clemm (1874-1883) | Johannes Schmidt (1883-1892) | Richard Reitzenstein (1892-1893) | Gotthold Gundermann (1893–1902) | Richard Wünsch (1902–1907) | Otto Immisch (1907–1913) | Karl Kalbfleisch (1913–1934) | Wilhelm Süß (1934–1940) | Andreas Thierfelder (1941–1943) | Vinzenz Buchheit (1962–1989) | Jochem Küppers (1990-1997) | Helmut Krasser (since 1999)
First ordinariate: Karl Zell (1821–1836) | Joseph Anselm Feuerbach (1836–1851) | Theodor Bergk (1852–1857) | Johannes Vahlen (1858) | Franz Bücheler (1858–1866) | Wilhelm Brambach (1866–1872) | Otto Keller (1872–1875) | Otto Hense (1876–1909) | Eduard Schwartz (1909–1913) | Otto Immisch (1914–1930) | Eduard Fraenkel (1931–1933) | Hans Oppermann (1935–1941) | Karl Büchner (1943–1976) | Eckard Lefèvre (1977-2003) | Therese Fuhrer (2004–2008) | Wolfgang Kofler (2009–2012) | Stefan Tilg (since 2014)
Second full professorship: Anton Baumstark (1836–1872) | Bernhard Schmidt (1872–1911) | Richard Reitzenstein (1911–1914) | Alfred Körte (1914–1917) | Ludwig Deubner (1917–1927) | Rudolf Pfeiffer (1927–1929) | Wolfgang Schadewaldt (1929–1934) | Hans Bogner (1936–1941) | Hermann Gundert (1944–1974) | Wolfgang Kullmann (1975–1996) | Bernhard Zimmermann (since 1997)
First chair (from 1985 Greek studies ): Johann Friedrich Christ (1739–1756) | Johann August Ernesti (1756–1770) | August Wilhelm Ernesti (1770–1801) | Gottfried Hermann (1803–1848) | Reinhold Klotz (1849–1870) | Ludwig Lange (1871–1885) | Kurt Wachsmuth (1886–1905) | Erich Bethe (1906–1931) | Jürgen Werner (1985–1996) | Kurt Sier (since 1996)
Second chair (since 1974 Latin studies ): Friedrich Wolfgang Reiz (1782–1785) | Christian Daniel Beck (1785-1819) | Friedrich August Wilhelm Spohn (1819–1824) | Christian Daniel Beck (1825-1832) | Anton Westermann (1834–1865) | Friedrich Ritschl (1865–1876) | Otto Ribbeck (1877–1898) | Friedrich Marx (1899–1906) | Richard Heinze (1906–1929) | Friedrich Klingner (1930–1947) | Franz Dornseiff (1948–1960) | Walter Hofmann (1974–1990) | Ekkehard Stark (1992-2001) | Marcus Deufert (since 2003)
Third chair: Otto Jahn (1847–1850) | Gregor Wilhelm Nitzsch (1852–1861) | Georg Curtius (1862-1885) | Erwin Rohde (1886)
Fourth chair: Justus Hermann Lipsius (1877–1914) | Bruno Keil (1914–1916) | Alfred Körte (1917–1934) | Wolfgang Schadewaldt (1934–1941) | Karl Reinhardt (1942–1946)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Körte, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 5, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 6, 1946 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |