Annemarie Jeanette Neubecker

Annemarie Jeanette Neubecker

Annemarie Jeanette Neubecker (birth name Ettlinger , later Gieser , born October 9, 1908 in Berlin-Charlottenburg , † August 27, 2001 in Heidelberg ) was a German classical philologist . As a specialist in ancient Greek music and music theory , she published an introduction to Greek music (1977, 2nd edition 1994) as well as an edition with translation and commentary of Philodem's work De musica (Book 4, 1986).

Life

Annemarie Jeanette Ettlinger was the daughter of the writer Josef Ettlinger (1869–1912) and his wife Melita Emilie geb. Kilian (1879-1971). After the early death of her father, she and her mother moved to Heidelberg in 1914 , where her mother married the chemist Karl Gieser (1881–1938), whose name Annemarie later adopted.

In Heidelberg she attended the secondary school for girls, passed the school leaving examination in 1926 and then studied classical philology and Romance studies at the universities of Heidelberg , Munich and Grenoble . On July 25, 1931, she married the heraldist Ottfried Neubecker (1908–1992) in Heidelberg and therefore did not complete her studies with the state examination. In a later résumé (1956) she wrote: “My intention to do my doctorate with a dissertation on the problem of dactyloepitrites at Pindar, suggested by Professor Regenbogen , was not carried out because my husband worked as a scientist and I had three children raised too much and on the other hand, the National Socialist legislation deprived me of the prospect of applying my knowledge. "

After the November pogroms in 1938 , her stepfather, who had Jewish ancestors, committed suicide on November 30, 1938.

From 1949 Neubecker worked at the Institute for Hellenistic-Roman Philosophy of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . Under the direction of Otto Luschnat , Neubecker prepared an edition of Philodem 's De musica font , for which she created a word index with 10,000 cards. Her marriage to Ottfried Neubecker was divorced on December 12, 1950. Her academic work gave rise to her doctoral thesis on the evaluation of music among the Stoics and Epicureans , which Otto Luschnat had suggested and supervised. The dissertation of Johannes Stroux at the Humboldt University in Berlin was accepted; after his death in 1954 Ernst Grumach and Walther Vetter took over the assessment. On March 2, 1955, Annemarie Jeanette Neubecker received her PhD from the Humboldt University in Berlin. phil. PhD .

In the year of her doctorate, she left Berlin and went to Heidelberg University , where she headed the library of the Philological Seminar (from 1968: "Seminar for Classical Philology") as a research assistant. At the same time she held lectures as a lecturer at this seminar. In 1975 she retired, but continued to do research.

Annemarie Jeanette Neubecker died on August 27, 2001 at the age of 92. She is buried in the Handschuhsheim cemetery.

Scientific work

Neubecker's research focus was ancient Greek music and music theory . In her doctoral thesis (published in 1956) she dealt with the writing De musica by the Epicurean Philodemos of Gadara , which had become known in the 18th century through the papyrus finds in the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum . In addition to the completely inadequate Editio princeps (1793), there was only one edition of the font by Johannes Kemke (1884) based on copies of the papyrus. Neubecker examined the position of writing in ancient music theory and commented on its text form and its content in detail.

During her time in Heidelberg, Neubecker published the monograph Ancient Greek Music in 1977 . An introduction that was welcomed in the professional world. The book is regarded as a standard work, was published in 1986 in a modern Greek translation and in 1994 saw a second, revised and expanded edition. In addition, Neubecker used her decades of research in the field of ancient Greek music in a research report covering the years 1958 to 1986, which appeared in the magazine Lustrum .

In 1986 Neubecker published an edition of the fourth book of Philodem's De musica with translation and commentary. She included Herculanian papyri and Disegni, which had been deciphered in the course of the 19th century and assigned to this script. The edition of its predecessor Kemke (1884), whose reconstruction of the text it basically adopted, was based on this basis; In contrast to Kemke, however, she examined the papyri and disegni according to the autopsy principle in Naples and was thus able to produce the text far more completely and reliably. Martin L. West , who was working on his monograph Ancient Greek Music (1992) at the time, praised the quality of the text production, the translation and the commentary in a review.

Fonts (selection)

• The evaluation of music among Stoics and Epicureans. An analysis of Philodem's De musica . Berlin 1956 (= dissertation; German Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Institute for Greco-Roman Classical Studies. Working Group for Hellenistic-Roman Philosophy . Publication No. 5)
• Ancient Greek music. An introduction . Darmstadt 1977. Reprint 1988. 2nd, revised and expanded edition 1994, ISBN 3-534-04497-5
  • Modern Greek translation by Mirella Simota-Phidetzi: Η μουσική στην αρχαία Ελλάδα . Athens 1986
• Ancient Greek music 1958–1986 . In: Lustrum . 32: 99-176 (1992); 293-296
• Philodemus: About Music, IV. Book. Text, translation and commentary . Naples 1986 ( La scuola di Epicuro 4), ISBN 978-88-7088-119-6

literature

• Karl Kollnig, Inge Frese: The Handschuhsheimer Friedhof . Volume 3, Ubstadt-Weiher 2002, p. 69.

Web links

• Literature by and about Annemarie Jeanette Neubecker in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} curriculum vitae in the dissertation: The evaluation of music among Stoics and Epicureans. An analysis of Philodem's De musica . Berlin 1956, p. 104
2. ↑ For Karl Gieser see the vita in his dissertation: About the reduction of unsaturated carbinols . Heidelberg 1905; also the memorial book. Victim of the persecution of the Jews under the Nazi tyranny in Germany 1933–1945 . Volume 2, Koblenz 1986, p. 943.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Karl Kollnig, Inge Frese: The Handschuhsheimer Friedhof . Volume 3, Ubstadt-Weiher 2002, p. 69.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Neubecker, Ottfried. Hessian biography. (As of March 22, 2013). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
5. ↑ Memorial Book. Victim of the persecution of the Jews under the Nazi tyranny in Germany 1933–1945 . Volume 2, Koblenz 1986, p. 943.
6. ^ Yearbook of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . 1955, p. 173.
7. ^ Foreword to the dissertation: The evaluation of music among Stoics and Epicureans. An analysis of Philodem's De musica . Berlin 1956, p. 5. Compare also the reviews by Armando Plebe, Rivista di Filologia . New Series, Volume 35 (1957), pp. 294-302; E. Kerr Borthwick, The Classical Review . New Series, Volume 7 (1957), pp. 215-217; Armand Janssens, Revue Philosophique de Louvain . Volume 56 (1958), p. 104 f.
8. ↑ Review by Dietmar Najock : Gnomon . 53: 305-307 (1981).
9. ↑ Ancient Greek Music 1958–1986 . In: Lustrum . 32: 99-176 (1992); 293-296.
10. ↑ Neubecker thus followed the editing principles that Otto Luschnat had established in his treatise On the text of Philodems writing De Musica (Berlin 1953).
11. ^ Journal of Hellenic Studies . New series, Volume 108 (1988), p. 236. Compare also the reviews by Annie Bélis, Revue des Études Grecques . 101: 573 (1988) and E. Kerr Borthwick, The Classical Review . Volume 38 (1988), pp. 145 f.