Anton Szantyr

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Anton Szantyr (Polish form of name Antoni Szantyr , born September 2, 1910 in Kostrycy near Vitebsk , † December 20, 1973 in Vaterstetten ) was a Polish-German classical philologist . He is particularly known as the editor of the Latin grammar of Manu Leumann (together with Johann Baptist Hofmann ), which is cited as "Leumann-Hofmann-Szantyr".

life and work

Antoni Szantyr was the son of the landowner Antoni Szantyr (1870-1920) and his wife Kazimiera von Sokołowskich (1880-1930). He grew up with seven brothers and a sister in the small village of Kostrycy near Vitebsk . He attended the Humanistic High School in Dsisna from 1921 to 1928 and wrote poems during this time, which he published in the school magazine Czujka nad Dzisną (1928) with the support of his brother Józef . After graduation (May 14, 1928), he studied classical philology at the then Polish Stefan Batory University in Vilnius , passed the master’s examination on June 30, 1933 and then worked for a few months as Jan Oko's assistant at the university. From February 1, 1934 to June 30, 1935 he taught at the humanistic Adam Mickiewicz High School in Vilnius. At the same time he wrote his doctoral thesis on the philologist Gottfried Ernst Groddeck (1762–1825), with which he was awarded a doctorate on July 5, 1936. phil. received his doctorate .

For 1937/1938 he received a scholarship that enabled him to stay at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . During this time he published a larger article (in German) in the journal Philologus and married the classical philologist Margarete Hohenadel (1911–?) On August 19, 1938 in Rottweil . At the end of the year Szantyr returned to Vilnius and took up a position at the university on December 31, 1938. After the Red Army occupied Vilnius during World War II , Szantyr lost this position and taught again at the Adam Mickiewicz Grammar School from September 1, 1940 to March 1, 1941. The German-Soviet non-aggression pact , which was still in force at the time, enabled him to move to the German Reich with his family (with his daughter Krystyna, who was born in 1939) . On March 5, 1941, three months before the German invasion of the Soviet Union , Szantyr moved with his family to Linz on the Danube and taught there from October 9, 1941 at the State High School .

With the support of his friend Johann Baptist Hofmann, Szantyr received a position at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich on January 1, 1942 . After the end of the war, he taught for a few months at the Theresien-Gymnasium in Munich (January 8 to April 12, 1946) and as a lecturer in Polish at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He continued to work for the thesaurus and was employed as a permanent editor on December 1, 1958. His wife also worked on the thesaurus from 1949 to 1983.

Szantyr's academic merits are primarily in the grammatical and lexical areas of Latin studies . In addition to the more than 130 articles he wrote for the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, he published essays, reviews and lexicon articles in the journals Gnomon , Glotta and the Neue Deutsche Biographie . His best-known work, however, is the "Leumann-Hofmann-Szantyr", the revision of the two-volume Latin grammar for the Handbook of Classical Studies , which he edited together with Johann Baptist Hofmann.

Fonts (selection)

  • Działalność naukowa Godfryda Ernesta Grodka . Vilnius 1935 (dissertation).
  • The Telephostrilogy of Sophocles . In: Philologus . Volume 93 (1939), pp. 287-324.
  • with Manu Leumann and Johann Baptist Hofmann: Latin grammar based on the work of Friedrich Stolz and Joseph Hermann Schmalz, Volume 1: Latin phonetics and forms . Munich 1963 (= Handbook of Classical Studies 2.1). New edition by Hermann Bengtson , Munich 1977, ISBN 3-406-01426-7 .
  • with Manu Leumann and Johann Baptist Hofmann: Latin grammar based on the work of Friedrich Stolz and Joseph Hermann Schmalz, Volume 2: Latin Syntax and Stylistics, with the general part of Latin grammar . Munich 1965 (= Handbook of Classical Studies 2.2). Improved reprint, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-406-01347-3 .
  • Groddeck, Ernst Gottfried. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966,ISBN 3-428-00188-5, p. 103 f. ( Digitized version ).

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SURNAME Szantyr, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Szantyr, Antoni (Polish form of name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Kostrycy near Vitebsk
DATE OF DEATH 20th December 1973
Place of death Vaterstetten