Immanuel Bekker
Immanuel Bekker (born May 21, 1785 in Berlin as August Emanuel Bekker; † June 7, 1871 ibid) was a German classical philologist .
Life
Immanuel Bekker studied with Friedrich August Wolf in Halle and is considered his most important student. On Wolf's recommendation, he was appointed to the newly founded University of Berlin in 1810 and a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1815 . Since 1833 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1861 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Bekker was considered to be linguistic, but taciturn ( Friedrich Schleiermacher : "Bekker is silent in seven languages"). On trips to Paris, Italy and Great Britain, some of them lasting several years, he saw Greek manuscripts in preparation for critical editions .
Bekker's importance lies above all in the edition of the first modern Aristotle complete edition. With the indication of the Bekker side , this is still quoted today. In addition, he published critical editions of numerous other ancient (almost exclusively Greek) and medieval, especially Byzantine writers (a total of about 140 volumes), which were considered exemplary in the 19th century, especially the editions of Plato and Homer .
literature
- Karl Felix Halm : Bekker, Immanuel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, pp. 300-303.
- Klaus Günther Loeben: Bekker, Immanuel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 24 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Wilt Aden Schröder : Immanuel Bekker - the tireless editor of primarily Greek texts. In: Annette M. Bartschi, Colin G. King (ed.): The modern fathers of antiquity. The development of classical studies at the academy and university in Berlin in the 19th century (= Transformations of Antiquity. Vol. 3). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-019077-9 , pp. 329-368.
Web links
- Literature by and about Immanuel Bekker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Immanuel Bekker in the German Digital Library
- Wilt Aden Schröder : Biogram of Immanuel Bekker in the scholarly historical prosopography of the Teuchos Center
- Letters to Immanuel Bekker held by the University of Chicago Library's Special Collections Research Center : The Immanuel Bekker Papers 1805–1853 (high-resolution scans under: “Inventory”)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry by Immanuel Bekker at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 5, 2017.
- ^ I. Bekker: Platonis scripta graece omnia. 11 volumes, London 1826.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bekker, Immanuel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bekker, August Immanuel (full name); Bekker, August Emanuel (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1785 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 1871 |
| Place of death | Berlin |