Bernhard Kock (philologist)

Bernhard Kock (full name Johann Bernhard Kock , born March 14, 1885 in Ochtrup ; † November 2, 1973 ) was a German classical philologist and grammar school director.

Life

Bernhard Kock, the son of the innkeeper Bernhard Kock, attended elementary school (1891–1897) and the rectorate school (1897–1901) in Ochtrup and, from 1901, the Paulinum grammar school in Münster, where he received his school-leaving certificate on March 27, 1906. He then studied Classical Philology and German at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau (summer semester 1906), Münster (winter semester 1906/1907 – summer semester 1907 and winter semester 1908/09 – summer semester 1910) and Berlin (winter semester 1907/08 – summer semester 1908). On October 8, 1910, in Münster, he was awarded the title "magna cum laude" as Dr. phil. PhD ; In his dissertation De epigrammatum Graecorum dialectis , which Peter Sonnenburg had supervised, he dealt with linguistic questions of the Greek epigrams. He passed the first state examination in Latin, Greek and German with the grade “good”.

After graduation, Kock completed the seminar year at the Schillergymnasium Münster (April 1, 1911– March 31 , 1912) and the probationary year at the Bocholt grammar school (April 1, 1912– March 31, 1913), where he was employed as an assistant teacher on April 1, 1913 has been. On April 1, 1914, he switched to the high school in Borbeck as a senior teacher . In the First World War , Kock received the Iron Cross 1st Class . After being severely wounded, he was released.

After the war, Kock was committed to maintaining the humanistic grammar school . He joined the German Gymnasium Association , published articles in its magazine Das humanistische Gymnasium and took part in a conference of the Central Institute for Education in Berlin on April 6, 1925 , at which the German Classical Philology Association (DAV) was founded.

On December 1, 1925, Kock went to the state high school in Emmerich am Rhein as director of studies . On November 1, 1926, he became headmaster (senior director) of the grammar school on Burgplatz in Essen , which he headed until October 31, 1945. Then he moved to the Landfermann-Gymnasium in Duisburg , whose director he was until his retirement (April 30, 1951).

In the post-war period, Kock was involved in education in many ways. He tried to found the municipal evening grammar school, of which he became the first director (May 1, 1950). He headed the evening grammar school until October 31, 1958, and taught Latin there until March 31, 1962. He also took part in the re-establishment of the German Classical Philologists Association: After a conference in Lüdinghausen (January 1949), he carried out the preparatory work together with Alfred Stephany and was recognized for the constitution of the DAV at the conference in Mönchengladbach (June 2-4, 1950 ) elected first chairman. One of the most important tasks was the revitalization of the association magazine and international relations. Kock organized a Franco-German working conference with 20 participants each from both countries, which took place from November 3 to 12, 1951. After the association conference in Marburg at Pentecost in 1952, which the DAV organized together with the Mommsen Society , Kock resigned from the chairmanship and was appointed honorary chairman of the DAV.

In 1960 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class, for his services . On the occasion of his 80th birthday, the magazine Gymnasium published a congratulatory address with a short résumé.

Fonts (selection)

• De epigrammatum Graecorum dialectis . Göttingen 1910 (dissertation, Westphalian Wilhelms University Münster)
• Latin reading and exercise book for quarta . 1927. 2nd edition 1928. 3rd, improved edition 1932. 4th edition 1934
• Greek epigrams. Selected and explained . Paderborn 1929
• Euripides: Bacchae. Text and explanations . 2 volumes, Paderborn 1932. Reprint 1946–1947
• Homer's Iliad in selection. Text and explanation . 4 parts, Paderborn 1934-1935. Reprinted in 1946
• Selection of Greek poetry. Text and explanations . Paderborn 1951. Reprint 1957
• Disciplina Latina: language teaching. Edition A, for schools with basic Latin . Munster 1954

literature

• Dr. Bernhard Kock, Duisburg, * 14.III.1885. Octogenario gratulantur Societas cui nomen est German Classical Philology Association necnon Gymnasii editores . In: Gymnasium . Volume 72 (1965), pp. III-V
• Obituary notice: high school . Volume 80 (1973), p. III
• Günter von Roden: History of the city of Duisburg. Volume 2: The districts from the beginning. The entire city since 1905 . Duisburg 1974, p. 608

Web links

• Bernhard Kock's personnel sheet in the BIL's personal file in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)