Carl Eduard Geppert

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Carl Eduard Geppert

Carl Eduard Geppert (born May 29, 1811 in Stettin ; † August 31, 1881 in Heringsdorf ) German classical philologist and historian of the history of Berlin.

Life

Carl Eduard Geppert, son of a judiciary, attended the Marienstiftsgymnasium in Stettin. The director Karl Ernst August Schmidt promoted his philological interests early on. He learned to make music from Carl Loewe and met Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy at a concert in Stettin in 1827. After passing the Abitur , he studied philosophy and philology in Breslau , Leipzig and Berlin from 1826 .

In 1836 he received his doctorate in Berlin with the font De versu Glyconeo. With his book On the Relationship of Hermann's Theory of Metrics to Tradition , he turned against the views of Gottfried Hermann , the then head of the critical-grammatical school (the so-called word philologists), who in understanding the ancient written works the aim of philology in recognized the exploration of language as the first and indispensable means of achieving it, while Geppert was a student of August Boeckh .

In 1842 he completed his habilitation in Berlin on the subject of the representation of grammatical categories . From 1844 to 1848 and from 1859 to 1869, he led with like-minded comedies of Plautus and Terence publicly, including to actor Richard Kahle . On a study trip to Italy (1845/46) he checked the manuscripts of Plautus and examined in particular the Codex Ambrosianus , a palimpsest discovered at the beginning of the century by Angelo Mai in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan . In 1846 he was appointed associate professor in Berlin and also lectured on ancient history, the history of religion and theater.

He earned particular merit through his various critical editions of Plautinian pieces and his three-volume chronicle of Berlin from the development of the city to the present day , which is still useful to today's researchers. As a university teacher, he had no students.

After a first stroke in February 1874, he had to finish his scientific work. He died of another stroke while on vacation in Heringsdorf.

His most famous student was Karl Marx , who attended his lecture "Den Ion des Euripides " in the winter semester of 1840/41 .

Works (selection)

literature

  • Wilhelm Stahr / H. Köchly , [Review] Geppert, About the origin of Homeric chants. Part I and II, Leipzig 1840 . In: German Year Books for Science and Art No. 113 of May 13, 1842; No. 114 of May 14, 1842; No. 115 of May 16, 1842
  • Carl Eduard Geppert . In: Biographisches Jahrbuch für Alterthumskunde . Edited by Iwan von Müller . 7 Jg. 1884. S. Calvary & Co., Berlin 1885, pp. 134-136 digitized
  • Geppert, Karl Eduard . In: Pierer's Universal Lexicon . 7th vol. 4. u. heavily probable edition HA Pierer, Altenburg 1859, p. 214 digitized
  • Geppert, Eduard . In: Meyers Conversations-Lexikon. An encyclopedia of general knowledge . 4. Completely redesigned. 7th edition of the brain -Hainichen . Leipzig 1887, p. 153
  • The doctorate of Karl Marx - Jena 1841 . Introduced and edited by Erhard Lange, Ernst-Günther Schmidt, Günter Steiger, Inge Taubert with the assistance of Bolko Schweinitz, Berlin 1983
  • Manfred Kliem : Karl Marx and the Berlin University 1836 to 1841 , Berlin 1988 ( contributions to the history of the Humboldt University of Berlin No. 21)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The doctorate of Karl Marx - Jena 1841 .
  2. ^ Manfred Kliem: Karl Marx and the Berlin University 1836 to 1841 .
personal data
SURNAME Geppert, Carl Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geppert, Karl Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist; Historian of Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1881
Place of death Heringsdorf