Carl Hosius
Carl Hosius (born March 21, 1866 in Neuwied ; † July 17, 1937 in Würzburg ) was a German classical philologist who worked as a lecturer and professor in Münster (1891–1906), Greifswald (1906–1913) and Würzburg (1913–1933 ) taught. As a great connoisseur of Latin literature and language, he was responsible for numerous text editions and reworked the Roman literary history of Martin Schanz ( Schanz-Hosius ).
life and work
Carl Hosius was the seventh of eight children of the lawyer and politician Clemens Hosius (1822-1902). When visiting the Hammonense grammar school in Hamm, the grammar school director and teacher of ancient languages Carl Jesaias Heraeus (father of the philologist Wilhelm Heraeus ) influenced him to study classical philology. Hosius began his studies in Münster and Freiburg im Breisgau ; He received the greatest stimulus in Bonn from Hermann Usener and Franz Bücheler . This led him to occupy himself with the textual criticism of Latin authors. Hosius wrote his dissertation in 1888 on the interpolations of a handwriting by Juvenal ; In the same year his work Apparatus criticus ad Iuvenalem was published . During his studies he became a member of the KDStV Sauerlandia Münster in the CV in 1883 . In the following years he also studied the manuscripts of the authors Lucan , Gellius and Properz on research trips in various libraries . He achieved his habilitation in Münster in 1891 with a thesis on Lucan, which appeared in 1892 as a critical edition of the civil war epic. The edition Die Moselgedichte des Decimus Magnus Ausonius and Venantius Fortunatus followed in 1894 . In recognition of his achievements, Hosius was appointed associate professor in Münster in 1897.
A call from the University of Greifswald made him leave Münster in 1906. In Greifswald, Hosius taught and researched as a full professor for seven years before moving to Würzburg in 1913 . Here he taught until his retirement (1933); in the academic year 1930/1931 he was the rectorate of the university. His teaching success is evident not least in his students, whose first works Hosius published in the series Würzburg Studies on Classical Studies . A commemorative publication by his students and colleagues Hildebrecht Hommel , Karl Keyßner , Josef Martin , Friedrich Pfister and Joseph Vogt on his 70th birthday (1936) with the title Studies on Tacitus also appeared in this series .
It can be attributed to the influence of the Bonn school that Hosius spent his life studying the textual criticism and explanations of the Latin poets. In terms of methodology, he leaned heavily on Karl Lachmann and, by strictly adhering to the handwriting that he recognized as the “best”, produced quite conservative texts. Even if his decisions have been revised in detail to this day, his overall performance remains an important contribution to textual criticism.
In addition to his editions, Hosius is particularly known as the editor of the history of Roman literature ( Handbuch der Altertumswwissenschaft Volume 8.1). The author of this work, Martin Schanz , died unexpectedly in 1914. The revision for the fourth edition was therefore carried out by his Würzburg successor, Hosius. Supported by Gustav Krüger for Christian literature , he first published the later volumes (Volume IV 1920, Volume III 1922), then the rest (Volume I 1927, Volume II 1935). This new edition, with which Hosius was busy until his death, remained the history of Roman literature a standard work, of which 1959, 1966–1967 and 1979–1980 unchanged reprints appeared. It was only partially replaced by the revision by Reinhart Herzog and Peter Lebrecht Schmidt (1997–2002).
literature
- Josef Martin: Carl Hosius , in: Annual report on the progress of classical antiquity , Volume 262 (1938), pp. 65–72.
- Carl Becker : Hosius, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 649 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Complete directory of the CV The honorary members, old men and students of the Cartell Association (CV) of the cath. German student associations. 1912, Strasbourg i. Els. 1912, p. 291.
Web links
- Literature by Carl Hosius in the catalog of the German National Library
First chair: Hermann Ludwig Nadermann (1821–1853) | Ferdinand Deycks (1843–1867) | Peter Langen (1868–1897) | Peter Sonnenburg (1898–1928) | Franz Beckmann (1931–1963) | Hermann Tränkle (1963–1972) | Christian Gnilka (1972-2002) | Christine Schmitz (since 2002)
Second chair: Franz Winiewski (1838–1874) | Johann Matthias Stahl (1874–1906) | Wilhelm Kroll (1906–1913) | Richard Wünsch (1913–1915) | Hermann Schöne (1916–1935) | Walter Eberhardt (1937–1946) | Friedrich Mehmel (1947–1951) | Richard Harder (1952–1957) | Gerhard Müller (1958–1962) | Martin Sicherheitsl (1963–1982) | Wolfgang Huebner (1986-2004) | Alexander Arweiler (since 2004)
Third chair (until 1918 extraordinary): Franz Ignaz Schwerdt (1861–1868) | Adalbert Parmet (1869–1898) | Carl Hosius (1897–1906) | Ludwig Radermacher (1906–1909) | Karl Münscher (1909–1936) | Rudolf Güngerich (1951–1953) | Hermann Kleinknecht (1953–1960) | Heinrich Dörrie (1961–1980) | Hermann Wankel (1981–1991) | Adolf Köhnken (1992–2002) | Christian Pietsch (since 2003)
Fourth chair: Otto Hiltbrunner (1962–1979)
First chair: Christian Wilhelm Ahlwardt (1817–1830) | Georg Ludwig Walch (1830–1838) | Rudolf Heinrich Klausen (1838–1840) | Otto Jahn (1842–1847) | Ludwig von Urlichs (1847–1855) | Martin Hertz (1855-1862) | Hermann Usener (1863–1866) | Franz Bücheler (1866–1870) | Wilhelm Studemund (1870–1872) | Adolph Kießling (1872–1889) | Friedrich Marx (1889-1893) | Eduard Norden (1893–1899) | Wilhelm Kroll (1899–1906) | Carl Hosius (1906–1913) | Ernst Lommatzsch (1913–1922) | Günther Jachmann (1922) | Kurt Latte (1923–1926) | Franz Dornseiff (1926–1948) | Jürgen Kroymann (1954–1955) | Dietrich Ebener (1957–1967) | Martin Hose (1994–1997) | Michael Weißenberger (1999-2013)
Second chair: Georg Friedrich Schömann (1827–1879) | Rudolf Schöll (1873–1874) | Eduard Hiller (1874–1876) | Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1876–1883) | Georg Kaibel (1883–1886) | Ernst Maass (1886–1895) | Alfred Gercke (1896–1909) | Hermann Schöne (1909–1916) | Johannes Mewaldt (1916–1923) | Konrat Ziegler (1923–1933) | Franz Egermann (1934–1942) | Gregor Vogt-Spira (1994-2006)
Third chair (associate professor, full professor from 1863–1898): Franz Susemihl (1856–1898) | Alfred Körte (1899–1903) | Ludwig Radermacher (1903–1906) | Ernst Bickel (1906–1909) | Johannes Mewaldt (1909–1914) | Georg Thiele (1914–1917) | Kurt Witte (1917–1920) | August Schmekel (1921–1927)
First chair: Bonaventura Andres (1783–1809) | Ferdinand Blümm (1809–1821) | Peter von Richarz (1821–1835; previously since 1817 associate professor) | Ernst von Lasaulx (1837–1844; previously since 1835 associate professor) | Franz Josef Hermann Reuter (1844–1867) | Wilhelm Studemund (1869–1870; previously since 1868 associate professor) | Martin Schanz (1874–1912; previously since 1870 associate professor) | Carl Hosius (1913–1933) | Josef Martin (1933–1952) | Rudolf Güngerich (1953–1968) | Carl Joachim Classen (1969–1973) | Udo W. Scholz (1974-2007) | Thomas Baier (since 2008)
Second chair (until 1899 also for classical archeology, 1900–1919 extraordinary professorship): Ludwig von Urlichs (1855–1889) | Karl Sittl (1889–1899) | Thomas Stangl (1900–1921)
Third chair: Franz Boll (1903–1908) | Otto Stählin (1908–1913) | Engelbert Drerup (1913–1923) | Friedrich Pfister (1924–1951) | Franz Dirlmeier (1951–1959) | Ernst Siegmann (1960–1981) | Thomas A. Szlezák (1983–1990) | Michael Erler (1991–2019) | Jan Stenger (since 2020)
Professorship for Classical Philology: Bernd Manuwald (1981–1983) | Ludwig Braun (1985-2008) | Christian Tornau (since 2009)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hosius, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hosius, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuwied |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 17, 1937 |
| Place of death | Wurzburg |