Carl Capelle (educator, 1841)

Carl Capelle (also: Karl Capelle and Karl Ludwig Ernst Capelle ; born June 22, 1841 in Ilfeld am Harz ; † February 8, 1912 in Hanover ) was a German teacher , grammar school director , classical philologist and Homer commentator.

Life

Carl Capelle was the son of Carl Ludwig Capelle , who came from Hanover and worked as a sub-clerk at the former Royal Hanover Pedagogy in Ilfeld. The father had received his doctorate in Jena in 1840.

Carl Capelle attended the Ilfeld Pedagogy from Michaelis in 1852, at which Michaelis passed his Matura examination in 1858 , in order to then study classical philology, archeology and education at the University of Göttingen. After passing the state examination at Michaelis in 1862, he accepted a position as a teacher at the Bender brothers' educational institution for boys in Weinheim an der Bergstrasse. He gave up the job again at Easter 1863 in order to fulfill his appointment at the Lyceum in Hanover . At this institution he taught successively as full professor of the Quinta, Obertertia and Untersecunda .

"Hanover, Georgsplatz with Lyceum", place of work of Carl Capelle and his student Theodor Lessing ;
Postcard No. 2443 , Zedler & Vogel , around 1900

On August 29, 1871, the Royal Provincial School College for Hesse-Nassau gave him the fifth senior teacher position at the Royal High School in Wiesbaden. From there, too, Capelle Michaelis returned to Lyceum I in Hanover in 1872. There he was given management duties in 1878, before Michaelis succeeded the retired director Heinrich Ludolf Ahrens in 1879 .

For more than a quarter of a century, Capelle was the school director. During this time he advised the parents of one of his students, the later philosopher, writer and publicist Theodor Lessing , in writing , to take him away from school and added: “Personally, I would like to advise your son to learn a simple craft, as he is responsible for mental activity will remain incapable for life. The director. Prof. Dr. Carl Capelle. "

On April 1, 1905, after 42 ½ years of teaching, Capelle was retired as a Privy Councilor .

family

Capelle was the father

• of the historian and senior teacher Wilhelm Capelle (1871–1961), who was born in Hanover and worked in Hamburg
• of the senior teacher and natural scientist Karl Capelle (1872–1924), who was born in Wiesbaden and worked in Ohligs
• the Auguste Frida Wilhelmine Capelle (October 8, 1880 in Hanover - April 9, 1980 in Bad Iburg), who on September 8, 1908 in Hanover, the pastor and university professor Wilhelm Carl Thimme (January 14, 1879 in Marklohe - January 19, 1966 in Volmerdingsen) married.

Fonts

• Dativi localis quae sit vis atque usus in Homeri carminibus (= university publication 1865 from the University of Jena for a doctorate to a Dr. phil.) In: Welcome letter for the philologists' meeting in Hanover 1864
• 7th edition of the Seiler-Crusius school dictionary on Homer
• Collaboration at the Lexicon Homericum (Ebeling & Plan, Berlin)
• Heinrich Ludolf Ahrens. In: Biographisches Jahrbuch für Alterthumskunde , Vol. 4 (1881), ed. by Conrad Bursian , pp. 89-103
• In memory of Heinrich Ludolf Ahrens , Hannover 1. Lyceum program, Hannover 1882, pp. 3–14
• Complete dictionary of the poems of Homero and Homerides. For school and private use. Ernst Eduard Seiler. Revised by C. Capelle from the earlier Seiler Homer dictionary
  • Reprint of the 9th, improved edition, Leipzig, Hahn, 1889, Hildesheim; Zurich; New York: Olms, 2007, ISBN 978-3-487-13414-7
  • 10th, unchanged edition, reprographic reprint of the 9th, improved edition Leipzig, Hahn, 1889. With a preliminary remark on the reprint by Ernst Risch, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1968
• The Municipal Lyceum <since Easter 1871 Lyceum I> in Hanover during the period from 1848 to 1898 presented on the occasion of its 550-year jubilee on February 2nd, 1898 by the director of the institution Prof. Dr. Capelle , Hanover: JC König & Ebhardt, [1898]
• To commemorate the 550-year jubilee of the Municipal Lyceum 1 in Hanover on February 2, 1898 , speech in: Programm Hanover Lyceum 1 , Hanover 1898, pp. 7-29

literature

• Franz Kössler : Capelle, Karl Ludwig Ernst , in the: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century . Professional biographies of school-annual reports and school programs 1825 - 1918 with the publication of directories , Vol .: Cadura-Czygan ;, full text as an electronic advance copy (PDF) of the University of Giessen , Giessen 2007
• Program Hannover Lyceum 1 ,
• Program Wiesbaden Gymnasium , 1872
• Hanover Lyceum I program , 1898
• Ilfeld Klosterschule program , 1913

Remarks

1. ↑ In contrast, Kössler (see there) names the year of death 1913

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Compare the information and cross-references in the catalog of the German National Library
2. ^ ^{A b c d e f} Franz Kössler: Capelle, Karl Ludwig Ernst , in ders: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century . Professional biographies of school-annual reports and school programs 1825 - 1918 with the publication of directories , Vol .: Cadura-Czygan ;, full text as an electronic advance copy (PDF) of the University of Giessen , Giessen 2007
3. ↑ Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (author): Homer's Iliad , lecture in the winter semester of 1887/1888 in Göttingen, after the transcript of Alfred Züricher ed. and commented on by Paul Dräger (= Spudasmata , Vol. 109), Hildesheim; Zurich; New York: Olms, 2006, ISBN 978-3-487-13136-8 and ISBN 3-487-13136-6 , p. 143
4. ↑ ^{a b} Biographisches Jahrbuch und deutscher Nekrolog , Vol. 17 (1915), p. 355; Digitized via Google books
5. ↑ ^{a b} Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung , issue number from September 1840; Digitized via Google books.
6. ↑ Theodor Lessing: The friend , in this: Once and never again. Memoirs , Bertelsmann 1935; Digitized in the Gutenberg-DE project
7. ↑ Reinhard Glaß: Gottfried Wilhelm Thimme , in the catalogus pastorum database . The pastors of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation Krimderode [undated], last accessed on August 12, 2019