August Reifferscheid

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Karl Wilhelm August Reifferscheid (born October 3, 1835 in Bonn , † November 10, 1887 in Strasbourg ) was a German philologist .

Life

August Reifferscheid was the son of the Bonn master turner Heinrich Reifferscheid (1805-1884) and Maria Sibilla Odilia Scheuren (1813-1891). His grandfather was the "breakdown baker" Stephan Reifferscheidt (1759-1825) from Rheinbreitbach, who was married to Anna Katharina Stockhausen. His brother was the Germanist Alexander Reifferscheid . Reifferscheid married Anna Maria Simrock (1846–1905) and thus became the son-in-law of the philologist and writer Karl Simrock and the father of the Düsseldorf academy professor Heinrich Reifferscheid and the gynecologist Karl Reifferscheid (1874–1926) and the uncle of the art historian Heinrich Reifferscheid, who worked in Mecklenburg .

From 1845 he attended high school in Bonn. He developed a close relationship with the headmaster Ludwig Schopen and completed a book project after his death in 1857. He studied classical philology in Bonn since 1853 , where he also completed his habilitation in 1860. He then traveled to Florence in Italy from 1861 to 1863 for research purposes. In the autumn of 1863 he returned to Germany to resume teaching. On behalf of the Vienna Academy, he traveled again to Italy from 1864 to 1866. There he scientifically examined old manuscripts for the Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorum (CSEL).

After his return to Bonn at the end of 1866, he became an associate professor in Bonn in 1867, in Breslau in 1868 and in Strasbourg in 1885 . In 1877 he became a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna . Reifferscheid dealt with classical and German literary history. He was friends with contemporary writers such as LV Bar, W. Junkmann, Th. Weber, G. Gräber and A. Gaspary.

In 1869 he married Anna Simrock, who gave him five children: Sieglinde (* 1871), Heinrich (1872–1945), Karl (1874–1926), Agnes (1878–1959) and Wilhelm (1883–1916).

Among other things, he translated early Christian writings from Latin into German. Among these were Arnobius the Elder and Tertullian .

Fonts (selection)

  • Suetoni praeter Caesarum libros reliquiae. Teubner, Leipzig 1860 ( digitized version ).
  • Bibliotheca Patrum latinorum italica. 2 volumes. Kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1865–1872 (digital copies: Volume 1 , Volume 2 ).
  • Arnobii adversus nationes libri VII. Vienna 1875.
  • Annae Comnenae Alexiadis libri X – XV. Weber, Bonn 1878 ( digitized version ).
  • Alexia text output. 2 volumes. Leipzig 1884.

literature

  • Georg Wissowa : August Reifferscheid . In: Biographisches Jahrbuch für Altertumskunde . 12th year (1889), 1890, pp. 39–52 (with list of publications)

Web links

Wikisource: August Reifferscheid  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Academy of Sciences in Vienna (ed.): Almanach for the year ... Verlag A. Hölder, 1941, p. 761 ( excerpt )
  2. ^ Exhibition Heinrich Reifferscheid ( Memento from July 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Stadtmuseum Bonn, December 13, 2007 to March 2, 2008, accessed on August 4, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Reifferscheid, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reifferscheid, Karl Wilhelm August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1887
Place of death Strasbourg