Anton Goebel

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Anton Goebel (full name Joseph Anton Karl Ernst Goebel , born September 15, 1824 in Boppard , † December 1, 1898 in Heiligenstadt ) was a German classical philologist and grammar school director.

Anton Goebel came from a Catholic pharmacist family. He was the son of the district physician Anton Goebel and his wife Wilhelmine geb. Neukirch; the family lived in Boppard from 1823 and in Attendorn from 1835. After the early death of both parents, Anton Goebel grew up in Attendorn with his uncle, the pharmacist Joseph Goebel (1807–1876).

Goebel first attended elementary school and the Progymnasium in Attendorn, then the grammar schools in Paderborn and Münster. After graduating from school in autumn 1844, he studied at the Philological and Pedagogical Seminar of the Münster Academy . With Professors Ferdinand Deycks , Heinrich Wilhelm Grauert , Johann Christoph Schlueter and Franz Winiewski he attended courses in the subjects of Classical Philology, German Studies, History and Romance Studies, as well as Philosophy and English Studies. He switched to the University of Tübingen for a semester , where he learned Hebrew. He then went to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he heard lectures from Ernst von Lasaulx and Friedrich Thiersch . At Easter 1847 he switched to Immanuel Bekker , August Boeckh , Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Heyse and Karl Lachmann at Berlin University . After a year he returned to Munster, did his military service and was preparing for the exam, which he shortly after his promotion to Dr. phil. (Easter 1849) existed.

After graduating, Goebel went on a six-month research and educational trip through Switzerland, southern France and Italy. Afterwards he worked in many different positions in the school service for many years. He started his probationary year at the Laurentianum Arnsberg grammar school . At Whitsun 1850 he went as an assistant teacher at the Laurentianum Warendorf grammar school , and in autumn 1850 as a substitute teacher at the Koblenz grammar school . He received his first permanent position as a full teacher in the fall of 1851 at the Gymnasium in Düren . After a year he switched to the grammar school in Trier , but in 1854 he returned to Düren as a senior teacher. At Easter 1856 he took over the direction of studies at the Rhenish Knight Academy in Bedburg , but he resigned from this position in the autumn of that year. On January 1, 1857, he accepted a teaching position at the Theresianum Gymnasium in Vienna , where he also found rich inspiration for his scientific interests. But Goebel only stayed there for two years. On March 1, 1859, he took his leave.

At Easter 1859 Goebel became director of the Konitz grammar school in West Prussia , where he worked for seven years. At Easter 1866 he went to Königsberg as a government and provincial school councilor . It was at this time that the proclamation of the Pope's infallibility fell at the 1st Vatican Council (1870), which Goebel (as a Catholic) resolutely opposed. In his capacity as a provincial school councilor, he persuaded many Prussian high school teachers to join the protest from Königswinter (declaration of August 14, 1870).

In May 1875 Goebel moved to the school authority in Magdeburg as a provincial school councilor , where he stayed until his retirement (1892). He was appointed a secret councilor in 1884 .

In addition to his work in the school service, Goebel always pursued his scientific interests. He dealt intensively with the Greek and Latin poets, especially with the linguistic history of the Homeric epics. His life's work resulted in a two-volume book on Homer and the Homerides (1878–1880), which remained in use long after its publication. Although out of date in many respects, it still represents a material basis for Homeric verbal studies.

In Vienna, Goebel evaluated an old manuscript (10th century) that contained texts by the Roman satirists Persius and Juvenal . According to Goebel's findings, this manuscript offered the oldest tangible textual state of the Persius satires, but later research has rejected this.

Fonts (selection)

  • Euripides de vita privata ac domestica quid senserit . Münster 1849 (dissertation)
  • De Troiae ludo . Düren 1852 (school program)
  • De epithetis Homericis in εις desinentibus . Vienna / Münster 1858
  • About a Viennese Juvenal manuscript from the 10th century, which has so far been completely ignored, as the only manuscript of the oldest and most unspoilt Juvenal Review . Vienna 1859
  • Iuvenaliana and Persiana from a Vienna parchment manuscript from the 10th century . Berlin 1859 (school program)
  • Homerica or etymological investigations on the root ἀν and related things . Munster 1861
  • Novae quaestiones Homericae . Berlin 1865 (school program)
  • To Homer and the Homerides. With numerous contributions to Greek word research in general as well as to Latin and Germanic word research . Two volumes, Berlin 1878–1880. Reprinted in Amsterdam 1967

literature

  • Biographical yearbook and German necrology . Volume 5, Berlin 1903, Col. 23 *
  • Franz Kössler: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century . Band fork - Guzy. Preliminary print, Giessen 2008 PDF; 5,515 kB

Web links

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