August Schmekel
August Schmekel (born October 29, 1857 in Jastrow , † June 20, 1934 in Greifswald ) was a German classical philologist and historian of philosophy .
Life
Schmekel received his doctorate from the University of Greifswald in 1885 with a thesis on Ovid . Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff wrote shortly afterwards to Theodor Mommsen : “Probably in a few days an overgrown, shy, almost blind, hungry person will introduce himself to you who refers to me. He was my student in Greifswald. AS got a very good doctorate there after I left ... But he cannot be employed in the school service because of his eyes and personality. ... In an incomprehensible way, people advise him to do his habilitation in ancient philosophy. ”In 1893 Schmekel finally completed his habilitation in Berlin. On the recommendation of Wilamowitz, Friedrich Althoff pushed Schmekel's transfer to the University of Greifswald in 1898, where Schmekel was to replace the retired Franz Susemihl as associate professor . After the protest of the Greifswald Faculty of Philosophy, Schmekel was transferred to the University of Greifswald as a personal associate professor for philosophy and philology; Susemihl's successor was appointed as associate professor Alfred Körte . Schmekel spent the rest of his career in Greifswald, where he was appointed extraordinary professor in 1906 and personal professor in 1921. In 1927 he retired .
His book The Philosophy of the Middle Stoa in Its Historical Context , first published in 1892, is still the “standard work” on the philosophy of the Middle Stoa to this day . In 1914 he published a monograph on Isidore of Seville , and posthumously the volume Research on the Philosophy of Hellenism (1938) appeared.
Fonts
- De Ovidiana Pythagoreae doctrinae adumbratione. Greifswald 1885.
- The philosophy of the Middle Stoa in its historical context . Berlin 1892.
- Isidorus of Seville. Its system and its sources. Berlin 1914.
literature
- Johannes Schmekel: August Schmekel . In: Biographisches Jahrbuch für Altertumskunde 284 (1943), pp. 61–64
Individual evidence
- ↑ "From the friend a son". Correspondence 1872–1903. 2 vols. Hildesheim 2003. p. 369.
- ^ Barbara Neymeyr / Jochen Schmidt / Bernhard Zimmermann (eds.), Stoicism in European philosophy, literature, art and politics. A cultural history from antiquity to modern times. Vol. 1. Berlin 2008. p. 17.
Web links
- Literature by and about August Schmekel in the catalog of the German National Library
First chair: Christian Wilhelm Ahlwardt (1817–1830) | Georg Ludwig Walch (1830–1838) | Rudolf Heinrich Klausen (1838–1840) | Otto Jahn (1842–1847) | Ludwig von Urlichs (1847–1855) | Martin Hertz (1855-1862) | Hermann Usener (1863–1866) | Franz Bücheler (1866–1870) | Wilhelm Studemund (1870–1872) | Adolph Kießling (1872–1889) | Friedrich Marx (1889-1893) | Eduard Norden (1893–1899) | Wilhelm Kroll (1899–1906) | Carl Hosius (1906–1913) | Ernst Lommatzsch (1913–1922) | Günther Jachmann (1922) | Kurt Latte (1923–1926) | Franz Dornseiff (1926–1948) | Jürgen Kroymann (1954–1955) | Dietrich Ebener (1957–1967) | Martin Hose (1994–1997) | Michael Weißenberger (1999-2013)
Second chair: Georg Friedrich Schömann (1827–1879) | Rudolf Schöll (1873–1874) | Eduard Hiller (1874–1876) | Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1876–1883) | Georg Kaibel (1883–1886) | Ernst Maass (1886–1895) | Alfred Gercke (1896–1909) | Hermann Schöne (1909–1916) | Johannes Mewaldt (1916–1923) | Konrat Ziegler (1923–1933) | Franz Egermann (1934–1942) | Gregor Vogt-Spira (1994-2006)
Third chair (associate professor, full professor from 1863–1898): Franz Susemihl (1856–1898) | Alfred Körte (1899–1903) | Ludwig Radermacher (1903–1906) | Ernst Bickel (1906–1909) | Johannes Mewaldt (1909–1914) | Georg Thiele (1914–1917) | Kurt Witte (1917–1920) | August Schmekel (1921–1927)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmekel, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist, historian of philosophy and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jastrow |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 20, 1934 |
| Place of death | Greifswald |