August Meineke
Johann Albrecht Friedrich August Meineke (also Augustus Meineke; born December 8, 1790 in Soest , † December 12, 1870 in Berlin ) was a German classical philologist .
Life
August Meineke was born on December 8, 1790 as the son of the director of the grammar school in Soest. Like his father, he attended the Pforta State School from 1805 to 1810. He then studied classical philology with Gottfried Hermann at the University of Leipzig for three semesters and was appointed professor at the Conradinum in Jenkau (near Danzig) on his recommendation . In 1814 he moved to the Academic Gymnasium in Danzig, where he was the Gymnasium rector from 1817 . From 1826 to 1856 he was rector of the Joachimsthal'schen Gymnasium in Berlin . His life's work was the edition of the Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum (1839-1857), an unsurpassed edition of the fragments of all Greek comedy poets at the time.
August Meineke died just four days after his 80th birthday on December 12, 1870 in Berlin and was buried in the local cathedral cemetery I on Liesenstrasse . The grave has not been preserved.
Meinekestrasse in Charlottenburg and Wilmersdorf , which runs between Kurfürstendamm and Schaperstrasse and ends at what was then Joachimsthal'schen Gymnasium, has been named since 1899 .
literature
- Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann : Meineke, August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 220-224.
Web links
- Literature by and about August Meineke in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about August Meineke in the German Digital Library
- Wilt Aden Schröder : Biogram of August Meineke in the scholarly historical prosopography of the Teuchos Center
- Meinekestrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 8.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meineke, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meineke, Johann Albrecht Friedrich August (full name); Meineke, Augustus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1790 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Soest |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 12, 1870 |
| Place of death | Berlin |