August Lynx
August Luchs (born March 6, 1849 in Wilhermsdorf , † April 25, 1938 in Erlangen ) was a German classical philologist .
Life
Growing up in Wilhermsdorf, he had to leave his parents' house at the age of ten to attend grammar school in Nuremberg . Although his father died while he was still in school, he graduated from high school as the best of his class and received the gold medal . In 1868 he became a member of the Germania Würzburg fraternity . During his studies at the University of Würzburg , he had to finance his living through private lessons. His teachers were Ludwig von Urlichs , Matthias von Lerer and Wilhelm Studemund , the latter influencing him so strongly that he even followed him to Greifswald in 1870 and received his doctorate there in 1872 with his thesis Zu Plautus . When Studemund was called to Strasbourg in 1872 , Luchs followed him there and qualified as a professor in 1874 with a paper on Latin pronouns . Shortly afterwards, with a thesis on the history of Titus Livius, he won a prize from the Charlotten Foundation for philology worth 6,000 marks, which gave him financial independence. So it was possible for him to examine Livy manuscripts in the local libraries in Italy, England and France. The result of these studies was the edition of Books 26 to 30 of Livy in 1879. For the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Erlangen this extraordinary achievement was the reason to propose him as professor and successor of Eduard Wölfflin and so Luchs was appointed by the Ministry on April 1st, 1880 as full professor of classical philology and second director of the philological seminar. His colleagues were initially Iwan von Müller , after whose departure he became the first director of the seminar in 1893, and the private lecturer Ferdinand Heerdegen , with whom he soon became deeply friends. Later Adolf Römer followed and, after his death, Otto Stählin . In 1910 Luchs was appointed Privy Councilor. At the age of 70 he was released from the obligation to hold lectures and on April 1, 1920 left his chair to Alfred Klotz .
Luchs' lectures included the history of Roman literature, Roman state and private life, historical Latin grammar, and the Roman poets Horace , Plautus and Juvenal . But he also dealt with Greek metrics and Greek writers.
In 1892 he was elected a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
Fonts (selection)
- Commentationes prosodiacae Plautinae . 1883
- De Horati carm. II 6 commentatio. Boy, 1888
- To Plautus . 1872
- Emendationum Livianarum . Boy, 1881
- De Sigismundi Gelenii codice Liviano spirensi commentatio . Boy, 1890
literature
- Otto Stählin : August Luchs . In Eugen Stollreither (ed.): Nekrologe, 1935–1940 , Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen 1941, pp. 52–57.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annual report on the progress of classical antiquity . OR Reisland, 1939, p. 80.
- ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 312.
- ↑ Prof. Dr. August Luchs , members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lynx, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1849 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wilhermsdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 25, 1938 |
| Place of death | gain |