Benjamin Gotthold Weiske

Benjamin Gotthold Weiske (born August 8, 1783 in Schulpforte ; † January 17, 1836 in Leipzig ) was a German classical philologist who worked as a high school teacher in Lübben, Görlitz and Meißen and as an associate professor at the University of Leipzig .

Life

Benjamin Gotthold Weiske was the son of the theologian and philologist Benjamin Weiske (1748–1809), who taught at the Pforta State School from 1781 . Weiske attended this school from 1795 to 1801; then he studied philology at the University of Leipzig. From 1805 Weiske was active in the Saxon school service: first as a Conrector at the grammar school in Lübben , then from 1808 as a subconrector at the grammar school in Görlitz , where he was also appointed Conrector in 1809. In 1810 he moved as the fourth professor to the Princely School of Meissen , where he was promoted to the third professorship in 1814.

Weiske left school in 1818 for health reasons. The University of Leipzig offered him an extraordinary professorship for philology on the condition that he previously completed his habilitation . Weiske did that in the same year, so that he could start lecturing in the winter semester of 1818/19. He was also active in the Antiquarian Society and the Lusatian Preacher Society. In 1830 he was appointed director of the philological seminary.

In his scientific work Weiske dealt primarily with Greek literature. After several smaller studies on individual questions, he wrote an extensive work on the Prometheus myth, which the Leipzig librarian Hermann Leyser (1811–1843) published after Weiskes death.

Fonts (selection)

• Orationem de Haloneso Demostheni, cui vulgo abjudicatur, vindicat BG Weiske. Luebben 1807
• De prepositionibus Graecis. Goerlitz 1809
• De hyperbole errorum in historia Philippi, Amyntae filii, commissorum genitrice. 3 parts, Leipzig 1818ff.
• Prometheus and his circle of myths. With relation to the history of Greek philosophy, poetry and art. After the author's death, edited by Dr. Herm. Leyser. Leipzig 1842

literature

• Georg Christoph Hamberger and Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland. Volume 16, Meyer, Lemgo 1812, p. 176 ; Volume 21, 1827, p. 440
• Johann Daniel Schulze: Supplementary volume to JG Otto’s (recte Gottlieb Friedrich Otto ) Lexicon of Upper Lusatian Writers and Artists. Zobel, Görlitz and Leipzig 1821, p. 465
• Bernhard Friedrich Voigt (editor): New Nekrolog der Deutschen. 14th year, 1836, part 1, Voigt, Weimar 1838, no. 18, pp. 64–68
• Georg Müller:  Weiske, Benjamin Gotthold . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 551.

Web links

Wikisource: Benjamin Gotthold Weiske  - Sources and full texts

• Benjamin Gotthold Weiske in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Overview of Benjamin Gotthold Weiske's courses at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1818 to winter semester 1835)