Arnold Passow

Arnold Thomas Gottfried Passow (born December 29, 1829 in Berlin ; † November 12, 1870 in Wiesbaden ) was a German teacher and classical philologist.

Life

Passow was a son of the teacher Karl Passow . His uncle was Franz Passow . He was taught initially by his father, and later by various tutors . In the natural sciences (including mathematics) he was taught together with Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia . At the beginning of the March Revolution , Passow successfully completed his Abitur at the Joachimthalschen Gymnasium as an “external” .

He then began to study philology at the University of Bonn ; mainly with Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker . He later moved to the University of Berlin and was able to successfully complete this course in 1852 with his dissertation "De comparationibus Homerici ". When he passed his teaching qualification the following year , he was admitted as a teacher.

Passow got a job at Friedrichwerderschen , later at Joachimthalschen Gymnasium. In the autumn of 1854 his educational trial year (legal clerkship) began at the Bonn High School under the direction of Ludwig Schopen . Exactly one year later, Passow was appointed as an assistant at the Pforta State School . There he soon made friends with his teacher colleagues Karl August Koberstein and Karl Steinhart .

In 1858 Passow was transferred to the education department in Magdeburg . Passow's wedding in Magdeburg that same year was a social event, as the guests u. a. his former schoolmate, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia, was with entourage. Passow married the writer Tibeta Ulrichs (1839-1913) and had three children with her, including the ear, nose and throat doctor and professor Carl Adolf Passow , Irene Gertrud, who later became the wife of the philosopher Rudolf Eucken . Arnold Passow's wife was the daughter of Heinrich Ulrichs , a lecturer at the University of Athens , whose estate he later looked after.

In 1861 Passow was promoted to senior teacher at the cathedral high school in Halberstadt , and five years later he was appointed professor there. At Easter 1868 he took over the management of the grammar school in Lingen (Ems) and held this position for another two years. In April 1870 he was unable to work due to his lung disease and even a lengthy cure did not bring any healing. Arnold Passow died in Wiesbaden on November 12, 1870, around six weeks before his 41st birthday.

Publications (selection)

as an author

• De comparationibus Homerici . Berlin 1852 (dissertation)
• Latin grammar . Kisling Publishing House, Osnabrück 1870.
• Sophoclesian Studies . Müller Verlag, Bremen 1864.

as translator

• Love songs and lamentations of the modern Greek people . Creutz, Magdeburg 1861
• Popularia carmina Graeciae recentioris . Edition Nikas, Athens 1958 (reprint of the Leipzig 1860 edition)

literature

• In memory of Arnold Passow. In: Berliner Zeitung für Gymnasialwesen. Vol. 24 (1870), pp. 930-933. (Obituary)