Alois Goldbacher

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Alois Goldbacher (born June 27, 1837 in Meran , † April 28, 1924 in Graz ) was an Austrian classical philologist .

Life

Goldbacher studied classical philology at the University of Innsbruck with Karl Schenkl and at the University of Vienna with Hermann Bonitz and Johannes Vahlen . After the teaching examination in Innsbruck (1861), he deepened his studies for a year as a scholarship holder in Vienna. In 1862 he became an assistant teacher at the grammar school in Olomouc, in 1865 a grammar school teacher in Opava. In 1867 he was at the University of Leipzig Dr. phil. doctorate and one year later accredited by the University of Graz . In 1869 he went as a teacher at the II State High School in Graz. From 1871 he was also a private lectureractive at the University of Graz. In 1875 he moved to the University of Chernivtsi as full professor , of which he was rector in 1881/82. In 1882 he returned to the University of Graz as full professor, where he was the rector's office in 1891/92 and retired in 1908.

Goldbacher was particularly concerned with the Latin prose literature through the influence of his teachers Schenkl and Vahlen. As a corresponding member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences , he participated in the corpus of the Latin Church Fathers , for which he created a critical edition of the letters of St. Augustine .

literature

  • Goldbacher, Alois. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 21.
  • Gerhard Baader:  Goldbacher, Alois. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 602 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Alois Kernbauer: Alois Goldbacher. In: Classical Philology at the University of Graz from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. With contributions by Herbert H. Egglmaier, Walter Höflechner, Alois Kernbauer, Walter Primig, Peter G. Tropper, Franz-Anton Wallisch . In: Contributions and materials on the history of science in Austria . Ed. Walter Höflechner (= publications from the archive of the University of Graz 11), Graz 1981, pp. 132–151.

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Individual evidence

  1. Rector's speech (HKM)