August Ferdinand Naeke

August Ferdinand Naeke (born May 15, 1788 in Frauenstein , † September 12, 1838 in Bonn ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

August Ferdinand Naeke came from a Saxon civil servant family. His brother was the later art historian Gustav Heinrich Naeke (1785–1835). He grew up in Dresden, where his father Johann Gottlieb Naeke was employed as a councilor and district administrator, and from Easter 1801 to 1806 attended the Pforta state school , which was headed by Karl David Ilgen at the time . After graduation, he studied law at the University of Leipzig , but soon turned to classical philology, which Gottfried Hermann represented. Naeke received his doctorate from him in 1810 .

Naeke got his first job as a teacher at the Pedagogy of the Francke Foundations in Halle an der Saale. In addition, he continued his scientific work and completed his habilitation in 1812 at the University of Halle . In 1817 he was appointed associate professor of classical philology.

Naeke achieved his position in life in Bonn in 1818: He was appointed associate professor at the newly founded Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . After being appointed full professor (1820), he led the philological seminar there together with Karl Friedrich Heinrich . From 1820 he was also professor of eloquence. In this capacity he gave speeches at the university and published program papers. In 1834/35 he was the rector of the university.

He died of heart disease on September 12, 1838, at the age of 50.

Services

Naekes importance for classical philology is based on his work on Greek tragedy, which went back to the suggestions of his teacher Gottfried Hermann. His main work is a monograph on Choirilus von Samos , a poet of historical epics ( Choerili Samii quae supersunt , Leipzig 1817).

During his twenty years in Bonn, Naeke did not publish any major works, as his teaching duties, the management of the philological seminar and the duties as professor of eloquence kept him busy. However, together with his colleague Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker, he published the Rheinisches Museum für Philologie from 1833 until his death . Many of the writings that Naeke elaborated during his time in Bonn appeared only after his death, including his report on a trip undertaken in 1822 in the footsteps of Goethe to Sesenheim in Alsace ( Sesenheimer Lieder ), which gave Goethe the occasion for his essay "Repeated Reflections" (1823 ) had given.

Fonts (selection)

• Choerili Samii quae supersunt collegit et illustravit, de Choerili Samii aetate, vita et poesi aliisque Choerilis . Weidmann, Leipzig 1817.
• Dissertatio de Callimachi Hecale . Thormann, Bonn 1829 (commemorative publication).
• Pilgrimage to Sesenheim. Edited by Karl August Varnhagen von Ense . Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1840. New edition under the title: Pilgrimage to Sessenheim. The first research into the love idyll of Goethe and Friederike. Edited and introduced by Klaus H. Fischer. Fischer, Schutterwald / Baden 2008, ISBN 978-3-928640-79-4 .
• Augusti Ferdinandi Naekii opuscula philologica (2 volumes). Edited by Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker. Weber, Bonn 1842-1845.
• Carmina Valerii Catonis cum AF Naekii annotationibus . Edited by Ludwig Schopen . König, Bonn 1847.

literature

• Richard Hoche :  Naeke, August Ferdinand . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, p. 202 f.
• Wolfgang Schmid : From the history of classical philology before Usener and Bücheler. Friedrich Ritschl and Jacob Bernays . In: Bonn scholars. Contributions to the history of science in Bonn. Philosophy and Classical Studies . Bonn 1968. pp. 127–143 (on Naeke especially pp. 128–129).

Web links

Wikisource: August Ferdinand Naeke  - Sources and full texts

• Works by and about August Ferdinand Naeke  in the German Digital Library
• Literature by and about August Ferdinand Naeke in the catalog of the German National Library