Alois Tresp

Alois Tresp (born October 7, 1884 in Gayl , Braunsberg district , East Prussia , † October 2, 1973 in Nuremberg ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher.

Life

Alois Tresp was the son of the pensioner Eduard Tresp (1842–1913) and Maria geb. Lilienthal (1850–?). He attended the Realgymnasium in Braunsberg , passed the high school diploma there on February 21, 1905 and studied Classical Philology and History at the Universities of Freiburg im Breisgau (summer semester 1905) and Königsberg (winter semester 1905/06 – summer semester 1909), where he was in particular the philologists interested in religious studies Ludwig Deubner and Richard Wünsch influenced. On November 30, 1910, Tresp was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD ; then he prepared for the teaching examination, which he passed on March 11, 1911. On May 24, 1911, he passed a supplementary examination for Greek. On October 1, 1911, he entered the educational seminar in Königsberg.

From April 1, 1912, Tresp taught at the secondary school in Braunsberg. Until September 30, 1913, he held a teaching position there. In addition to the preparatory service, he continued his scientific studies. In his dissertation he had collected and commented on the scattered fragments of ancient writers on the Attic cults; he extended this collection to all of ancient Greece. To prepare for printing, he took leave from school between October 1, 1913 and April 1, 1914. His collection, published in 1914, was entitled The Fragments of the Greek Cult Writers and was dedicated to Ludwig Deubner. Following this project, Tresp wrote several articles for Pauly's Realenzyklopädie der Classical Antiquities (RE) in the 1920s and 1930s .

From April 15 to July 1, 1914, Tresp taught as a teacher training candidate at the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Königsberg. On August 1, 1914, he went to the higher boys' school in Seeburg as an assistant teacher .

After the First World War broke out, Tresp served as Landsturm man in the 76th Landsturm Infantry Regiment. From October 1915 he fought on the Western Front. In September 1916 he was taken prisoner by the French, from which he was only released on March 1, 1920. Tresp immediately returned to East Prussia and found employment as a teacher at the grammar school in Rastenburg . On October 16, 1921 he married Marta geb. Thiel. Their son Wolfgang Tresp (1925–2005) later became a dentist. On April 1, 1923, Alois Tresp moved to the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Königsberg. Towards the end of the Second World War , he fled East Prussia with his family in 1945 and came to Erlangen . He later moved to Nuremberg , where he died shortly before his 89th birthday.

Fonts (selection)

• Scriptorum de rebus sacris Atticis fragmenta collecta, praefatione adnotationibusque instructa . Königsberg 1910 (dissertation).
• The fragments of the Greek cult writers . Töpelmann, Giessen 1914 (= attempts at religious history and preliminary work 15, 1). Reprinted by Arno Press, New York 1975, ISBN 0-405-07267-8 ; E-book version, Walter de Gruyter, ISBN 978-3-11-137306-5 .

Web links

• Literature by Alois Tresp in the catalog of the German National Library
• Personnel card and personnel sheet of Alois Tresp in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)
• Tresp family tribe list in Franconia