August Hausrath

August Hausrath (born June 20, 1865 in Karlsruhe , † May 15, 1944 in Heidelberg ) was a German classical philologist and grammar school director.

Life

August Hausrath was the eldest son of the Protestant theologian Adolf Hausrath (1837–1909) and Henriette Fallenstein (1840–1895), whose younger sister Helene was married to the lawyer Max Weber senior ; the older sister Ida was married to the historian Hermann Baumgarten . The Hausrath family moved to Heidelberg in 1869 , where their father held an extraordinary (later full) professorship for New Testament exegesis and church history. The family has lived in the Fallenstein family's house at Ziegelhäuser Landstrasse 17 ever since.

August Hausrath attended grammar school in Heidelberg from 1873, where Gustav Uhlig taught him Latin and Greek. In 1878 Hausrath moved to the grammar school in Mannheim , where he passed the school leaving examination in 1883. In the winter semester of 1883/1884 he went to the University of Heidelberg and studied classical philology and history. In the summer semester of 1885 he moved to the University of Bonn , where he also joined the Bonn Circle and the Philological Association. Among his fellow students were Hans von Arnim , Otto Cuntz , Friedrich Mie , Erich Pernice and Otto Schulthess . On August 13, 1888 Hausrath was appointed Dr. phil. PhD . He dedicated his dissertation to Professors Franz Bücheler and Hermann Usener ; In his résumé he named the archaeologists Friedrich von Duhn and Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz and the historian Heinrich Nissen as the academic teachers to whom he owed the most.

After completing his doctorate and graduation, Hausrath initially remained a private scholar. He traveled to Italy and examined manuscripts of the Aesopian fables , with which he occupied himself all his life. In 1896 he was appointed high school professor at the high school in Karlsruhe. In 1910 he moved to the high school in Heidelberg, where he lived with his sister Laura (1867–1928), his cousin Max Weber and his wife Marianne in his parents' house. In 1919 Hausrath was appointed director of the high school in Wertheim . In 1921 he moved to the Friedrich-Gymnasium in Freiburg im Breisgau , which he directed for ten years. In 1930 he retired and moved back to Heidelberg, where he remained active in research and journalism until his death.

Hausrath's main research focus was the Aesopian fables, the origin, tradition and reception of which he examined in detail. After decades of preparation, he published a critical text edition and a German translation of the fables in 1940. Both works were revised by his former colleague Hans Haas after his death . Hausrath also dealt with the Greek drama. In 1919 he performed the Antigone des Sophocles in the original language together with Franz Boll at the Wertheimer Gymnasium and in 1923 published a translation of Aeschylus' Persians . In addition, Hausrath endeavored in the tradition of his Heidelberg teacher Gustav Uhlig to maintain the humanistic grammar school . He was a board member of the Baden grammar school association and championed the importance of humanistic education in essays and lectures. During the Weimar Republic he was a member of the German Democratic Party .

Fonts (selection)

• with August Marx: Greek fairy tales: fairy tales, fables, rascals and novels from classical antiquity . Jena 1913. 2nd edition 1922
• Investigations into the tradition of the Aesopian fables . In: Yearbooks for Classical Philology . Supplement volume 21, Leipzig 1894, pp. 245-312
• Achiqar and Aesop. The relationship between the oriental and the Greek fable poetry . Heidelberg 1918
• Aeschylus: The Persians. Germanized . Jena 1923
• Youth movement and school . Karlsruhe 1923
• History of Roman Literature . Bielefeld 1930
• Aesopian fables. Followed by a treatise: The Aesople Legend, Urtext and Transmission . Munich 1940. 2nd edition 1944. 3rd, abridged edition 1959
• Corpus fabularum Aesopicarum . Vol. 1: Fabulae Aesopicae soluta oratione conscriptae, Fasc. 1 . Leipzig 1940. 2nd edition with addenda and corrigenda by Hans Haas 1957
• Corpus fabularum Aesopicarum . Vol. 1: Fabulae Aesopicae soluta oratione conscriptae, Fasc. 2: Fabulae 182-345 . Leipzig 1956. 2nd edition with indices by Hans Haas 1959

literature

• Album of the Bonner Kreis 1854–1906 . Bonn 1906, p. 45f. (No. 286).
• Hans Haas: August Hausrath † . In: Gymnasium . 56th year (1949), pp. 70–73

Web links

Wikisource: August Hausrath  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by August Hausrath in the catalog of the German National Library