Bruno Rappaport

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Emil August Bruno Rappaport (born November 4, 1875 in Berlin ; † July 20, 1915 in Suchodoly near Krasnystaw ) was a German ancient historian and high school teacher.

Life

Bruno Rappaport was born in Berlin as the son of a businessman based in Königsberg and had five siblings. One brother was the architect and city planner Philipp Rappaport . After the death of his father, the family moved to Bad Kösen in 1888 . In the same year, Bruno Rappaport moved into the nearby Pforta State School . After completing his school-leaving certificate, he went to the Berlin University in 1895 as a student of classical philology and ancient history , at whose philological seminar a radical change was taking place: the long-established professors Johannes Vahlen and Adolf Kirchhoff opposed those of Hermann Diels and the ancient historians Ulrich Köhler and Otto Hirschfeld defended the new direction in classical philology. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff from Göttingen, who had recently been appointed, joined them in 1897 , who founded the philological proseminar and displaced pure word philology in favor of a comprehensive classical scholarship. Rappaport particularly attended events with Otto Hirschfeld, who shaped him, and after graduating in 1899, received his doctorate with the dissertation De Gotorum usque ad Decium imperatorem mortuum incursionibus ("The Goths up to the death of Emperor Decius"), which was written in Latin in 1899 and in German language appeared in Leipzig in 1900. The work received very favorable reviews from Felix Dahn , although many of his views were attacked in it.

After Rappaport had passed the first state examination in 1901, he served as a one-year volunteer and rose to lieutenant in the reserve. At the same time he completed his seminar year at the Berlin Lessing-Gymnasium until 1902 and his probationary year at the Prinz-Heinrich-Gymnasium in Schöneberg until 1903 . He then worked as a senior teacher at the Royal City Realgymnasium, and from 1910 at the Reformed Realgymnasium in Charlottenburg . From around 1908 he wrote numerous articles about Germanic tribes for the revision of the Realencyclopadie of the classical antiquity .

When the First World War broke out , he was activated and reported to his regiment on August 3, 1914. He was first used on the Western Front and received the Iron Cross for his participation in the assault on Longwy . In late autumn 1914 he was admitted to the hospital with a violent attack of dysentery and in April 1915 assigned with his regiment to the 11th Army , newly formed under August von Mackensen , which marched into Galicia. Rappaport, who had already been submitted for the award of the Iron Cross 1st class and promotion to captain, was fatally wounded in the neck by a machine gun bullet on July 20 during the march on Suchodoly (near Krasnystaw ) and died within a few minutes.

Fonts (selection)

  • De Gotorum usque ad Decium imperatorem mortuum incursionibus , Leipzig: Hirschfeld 1899.
  • The incursions of the Goths into the Roman Empire with the exception of Constantine , Leipzig: Hirschfeld 1899.
  • Roman history up to 133 BC Chr. , Leipzig: Teubner 1913.
  • Roman history from 133 to Augustus , Leipzig: Teubner 1913.
  • The Roman Empire and the Teutons , Leipzig: Teubner 1915.

literature

  • Kurt Regling : Bruno Rappaport , in: Biographisches Jahrbuch für Alterthumskunde , 40th year (1920), pp. 76–83

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personal data
SURNAME Rappaport, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rappaport, Emil August Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1915
Place of death Suchodoly