August Heisenberg

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August Heisenberg (born November 13, 1869 in Osnabrück , † November 22, 1930 in Munich ) was a German Byzantinist .

Ernst August Heisenberg came from a Westphalian family of craftsmen. He was the son of Wilhelm August Heisenberg (1831-1912), a master locksmith (blacksmith) in and from Osnabrück, and Anna Maria Unnewehr (1835-1919).

Heisenberg went to public school and the secondary school in Osnabrück and studied from 1888 philosophy and other subjects in Marburg and from 1889 in Munich , where he was under the influence of Karl Krumbacher the classics and especially turned to the medieval Greek. In 1890/91 he also studied in Leipzig. During his studies in Marburg he became a member of today's Marburg Burschenschaft Rheinfranken . In 1892 he became a Bavarian citizen and passed the first part of the state examination for the higher teaching post. The doctorate took place in 1894 at Krumbacher in Munich ( on the text history of Georgios Akropolites ). In 1893 he became an assistant at the grammar school in Landau in the Palatinate (then part of Bavaria) and from 1893 he was at the Maximilians grammar school in Munich. In 1895/96 he did his military service in Osnabrück. In 1897 he became a teacher at the high school in Lindau . In 1898 and 1899 he traveled to Italy and Greece after receiving the Bavarian State Archaeological Scholarship. From 1899 he was at the Luitpold-Gymnasium in Munich and from autumn 1901 a high school teacher in Würzburg. In 1901 he completed his habilitation for Middle and Modern Greek Philology in Würzburg , where from 1908 he taught as an honorary professor in addition to his work as a high school teacher. In order to advance his academic career, he usually wrote a number of scientific publications at night. In 1910 - after the death of Karl Krumbacher - he became professor for Byzantine Studies in Munich (Krumbacher's chair was the first chair for Byzantine studies in Germany, then called the Chair for Middle and Modern Greek Philology). In 1927 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the then Soviet Academy of Sciences .

August Heisenberg had been with Annie born in 1899. Wecklein (1871–1945) married, the daughter of the classical philologist and grammar school director Nikolaus Wecklein (1843–1926), whom he already knew from his educational internship in Munich. The couple had two sons, the physicist and Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg and the chemist Erwin Heisenberg (1900–1965). His wife has been portrayed as intelligent. She supported her overburdened husband with the duplication of a high school teacher and scientist who was aiming for a university career, such as correcting classwork and even learning Russian to support him in his scientific work.

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  1. ↑ Rechenberg, Werner Heisenberg, Springer 2010, Volume 1, pp. 17f. The family was actually called Heissenberg, the second s fell victim to a typographical error in the office.
  2. ↑ Genealogy page of the Heisenberg family ( memento of the original from April 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / werner-heisenberg.unh.edu
  3. ↑ Old gentlemen's association of the Marburger Burschenschaft Rheinfranken e. V. http://www.haben.rheinfranken.de
  4. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. August Heisenberg. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 16, 2015 .
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SURNAME Heisenberg, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Byzantinist
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1930
Place of death Munich