Arthur Ludwich

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Arthur Ludwich (born May 18, 1840 in Lyck , Masuria , East Prussia ; † November 12, 1920 in Königsberg ) was a German classical philologist . He was a representative of the Königsberg School of Classical Philology (professor from 1878) and is particularly known as a homer researcher (text criticism, tradition, scholia).

Life

Youth and Studies

Arthur Ludwich, the son of the district treasurer Hermann Ludwich, attended the high school in Gumbinnen from 1851. He spent a lot of time drawing and originally wanted to be a painter, but in secondary school, under the influence of his teacher Julius Arnoldt, he decided on theology. After graduation, he began his studies in the winter semester of 1861/1862 at the University of Königsberg . He belonged to the Arminia fraternity, which later became part of the Corps Hansea Königsberg .

Ludwich first studied theology in Königsberg, but switched to classical philology according to his inclination. In addition to the philologists Karl Lehrs and Ludwig Friedländer , he was particularly influenced by the Germanist Julius Zacher , who introduced Ludwich to codicology and palaeography . In 1864 Ludwich was accepted into the Philological Seminary, in 1865 he solved the university's award task. In April 1866 he received his doctorate with a study on the Greek hexameter . On December 1st of the same year he passed the teaching examination.

Professorship in Breslau and Königsberg

Ludwich initially worked as an assistant teacher at the Collegium Fridericianum, from 1868 as a full teacher. In the autumn of 1874 and in the summer of 1875 he made two trips to Italy to study. In March 1876 Ludwich - without habilitation - was appointed associate professor at the University of Breslau . He stayed here for two and a half years until he received a call from his alma mater Königsberg in 1878 . He was appointed there to succeed his teacher Lehrs, who had died that summer that year.

The professorship brought numerous new obligations for Ludwich. So he was (until October 1, 1909) co-director of the philological seminar and from 1886 to 1918 professor of eloquence. In the following years he went on several study trips, including to London (July to November 1886), Florence (August to September 1887), Milan (with Fritz Schoell , Easter 1891) and Venice (autumn 1891). In 1887/1888 he was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty, and from 1894 to 1897 Senator of the University. The rectorate of the university rejected Ludwich. In 1900 the Hungarian Academy of Sciences elected him a foreign member. In 1903 Ludwich was appointed a secret councilor. Depressed by chronic illness and family griefs, Ludwich ended his teaching activities at the end of the winter semester 1911/1912.

power

As a researcher, Ludwich continued the tradition of the Königsberg School, which since Karl Lehrs was all about textual criticism . All his life he occupied himself with the transmission history of the Greek epics, especially with the reconstruction of the Alexandrian Homer philology. His life's work were critical editions of the Odyssey (1889–1891) and the Iliad (1902–1907), which were reprinted unchanged in the late 20th century. Ludwich was the first home editor who based his text editions on the handwritten tradition. Not only the abundance, but especially the reliability of Ludwich's statements in the apparatus have given his edition lasting value. He made conjectures much less often than his predecessors (such as Immanuel Bekker ) and only after confirmed observations.

Fonts (selection)

  • Aristarchus Homeric textual criticism based on the fragments of Didymus . Leipzig 1885. Reprint Hildesheim 1971.
  • Homeri Odyssea . Two volumes. Leipzig 1889-1891.
  • Selected letters from and to Chr. A. Lobeck and K. Lehrs along with diary notes . Two volumes. Leipzig 1894.
  • The Homervulgata proved to be pre-Alexandrinic . Leipzig 1898.
  • Homeri Iliad . Two volumes. Leipzig 1902–1907.
  • Anecdotes on Greek orthography . Koenigsberg 1905.
  • Homeric construction of hymns along with its imitations in Callimachos, Theocritus, Virgil, Nonnos and others . Leipzig 1908.

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personal data
SURNAME Ludwich, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ludwich, Constantin Hermann Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Elk , Masuria
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1920
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)