Arno Mauersberger

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Arno Mauersberger (born July 6, 1897 in Leipzig , † October 24, 1976 in Markkleeberg ) was a German classical philologist .

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Arno Mauersberger was the second son of the middle school teacher Christian Friedrich Paul Mauersberger and his wife Selma geb. Hardness. After attending the fourth Leipzig Citizens' School from 1904 to 1908, he continued his school education, initially on the parallel train of the Thomas School at the fourth Realschule Leipzig, and from 1910 to 1916 at the Thomas School itself. He then did military service from 1917 to 1919 before studying Classical Philology , Philosophy , History , Classical Archeology and Indo-European Studies at the University of Leipzig from 1919 to 1922 . There he was working with Cyrenaica. Investigations into the relationship of Aristippus in the Socratics. With a collection of fragments of Cyrenaic School PhD . At the same time he put the state examination from which the activity as a trainee teacher and - assessor followed at the Thomas School from 1922 to 1923.

In 1923 he became an assistant at the Philological Institute of the University of Leipzig under Richard Heinze . He held this position, which was associated with extensive teaching, until 1930. During these years he married Anna Auguste Charlotte Thiele (1900–1980) in 1925, a sister of the actress Hertha Thiele . The daughter Elfriede comes from the connection. In 1929 the family moved to Markkleeberg . At Leipzig Queen Carola Gymnasium he was in 1930 as a teacher hired and retained this position until 1944. At the same time took over Arno Mauersberger first work for the Polybius lexicon , a research project that as Bedeutungswörterbuch the vocabulary of the histories of Polybius should open up.

Arno Mauersberger joined the Sturmabteilung (SA) - the paramilitary fighting organization of the NSDAP - and the Nazi teachers' association in 1934 and joined the NSDAP in 1937. He belonged to the SA until 1937, to the Nazi teachers' association and the NSDAP until 1945. As a philologist, he gained recognition during these years with his translation of the Germania des Tacitus published in 1942 .

From 1944 to 1945 he was acting head of the Zschopau Oberschule . After the end of World War II first - like most teachers of the institution - fired because of his Nazi party membership, he was from October 1945 to February 1946 under the new Director Kurt Schumann temporarily as deputy head of the school involved. In the same year he joined the GDR CDU and took part in the founding of the Zschopau branch of the GDR Kulturbund . From 1946 to 1947 he was a lecturer in philology and psychology at the adult education center in Zschopau. From 1947 to 1949 he resumed work on the Polybios Lexicon as a research assistant at the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. From 1949 to 1962 he was a lecturer for ancient languages ​​at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig and, at the same time, head of the working group “Polybios Lexicon” at the Commission for Greco-Roman Antiquity of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin , the first three deliveries of which between 1956 and in 1966. In addition, from 1956 to 1967 he was deputy chairman of the Commission for Nature Conservation and Monument Preservation in Leipzig.

After his retirement in 1962 and the associated formal retirement, Arno Mauersberger was appointed part-time lecturer in Classical Philology at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . In 1967, on the occasion of his 70th birthday and in recognition of his services, he was appointed part-time professor of classical philology at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. In 1972 he finished his work on the Polybios Lexicon , which was continued by Günter Glockmann (fourth edition 1975).

Publications

Translations

author plant place year
Horatius Commentary Volume I: Odes and Epodes Leipzig 1926
Horatius Commentary Volume II: Satires and Epistles Leipzig 1926
Cicero Catilinarian speeches Berlin 1940
Virgil Aeneid Frankfurt 1940
Xenophon / Aristotle Athens, construction and decline Leipzig 1941
Cornelius Tacitus Germania Leipzig 1942
Plato Kallipolis Frankfurt 1943
Plato Apology and Crito Frankfurt 1943
Apuleius Cupid and Psyche Leipzig 1948
Marc Aurel Self-contemplations Leipzig 1949
Plato Protagoras Hamburg 1956
Longos Daphnis and Chloë Leipzig 1960

Own works

  • Cyrenaica. New investigations into the position of Aristippus in Socratics. With a collection of the fragments of the Cyrenean school. Dissertation at the University of Leipzig, Leipzig 1922.
  • Hellas and Rome as the basis of German youth education in contemporary humanistic grammar schools. Teubner, Leipzig 1932.
  • From the world of Augustus. Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main 1940.
  • Polybios Lexicon. Volume 1, Delivery 1 (α – γ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1956.
  • Polybios Lexicon. Volume 1, delivery 2 (d – ζ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1961.
  • Polybios Lexicon. Volume 1, delivery 3 (η – κ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1966.

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personal data
SURNAME Mauersberger, Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1976
Place of death Markkleeberg