Carl Kappus

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Carl Ludwig Kappus (born March 6, 1879 in Frankfurt am Main ; † May 17, 1951 in Berlin ) was a German linguist and high school teacher. From 1929 to 1949 he headed the Arndt-Gymnasium Dahlem .

Life

Carl Kappus, the son of the bank clerk Heinrich Hector Kappus, attended the Adlerflychtschule and the Goethe-Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main and after graduating (September 17, 1898) studied classical philology and French for two semesters at the Philipps University in Marburg . He spent the winter semester 1899/1900 and the summer semester 1900 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , where he concentrated on linguistics in addition to classical philology (as a participant in the proseminar). After returning to Marburg, he entered the Philological and Romance Studies seminar and prepared for the exam. On September 9, 1903, he was with a dissertation on the Indo- ablative Dr. phil. doctorate , which was supervised by Ferdinand Justi . On February 19, 1904, the first state examination for the higher teaching post followed, in which Kappus received the license to teach Greek and French (for all classes) and Latin (up to lower level II); for Latin he acquired unrestricted license to teach in an additional examination on February 6, 1906.

Kappus completed his preparatory service in his hometown: from April 1, 1904, the seminar year at the Goethe-Gymnasium, a year later the probationary year at the Kaiser-Friedrichs-Gymnasium . As soon as he graduated, he was given a permanent position as a senior teacher at the Royal High School in Wiesbaden . From October 1, 1912, he taught at the Prinz-Heinrichs-Gymnasium in Berlin, where he was on leave from 1916 as tutor of the two eldest sons of the Prussian Crown Prince ( Wilhelm and Louis Ferdinand ). Further employment took him to the Viktoria-Gymnasium in Potsdam (January 1, 1919) and to the Realgymnasium in Berlin-Grunewald (April 1, 1919). On July 1, 1925, he took over as headmaster head of the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Templin (1 July 1925), October 1, 1929, he moved in the same capacity at the Arndt-Gymnasium in Berlin-Dahlem , which he held until his entry into headed retirement (1949). In 1931 he became a member of the scientific examination office in Berlin. From 1948 he held language exercises at the Free University of Berlin , since January 26, 1949 as an honorary professor.

Kappus continued his linguistic work in addition to his school service. Together with other high school teachers, he wrote the Latin textbook Ludus Latinus , which had four editions from 1927 to 1930. He also edited Adolf Kaegi's Greek grammar and a German translation of Sophocles ' Oedipus , which came from his academic teacher Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff . Kappus mastered at least twelve languages, including Latin, Greek, Middle Persian, French, English, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, Romanian and Albanian.

Carl Kappus died in Berlin in 1951 at the age of 72 and was buried in the St. Anne's churchyard in Berlin-Dahlem . The grave is preserved.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Indo-European ablative . Marburg 1903 (dissertation)
  • with Werner Hartke and Gerhard Salomon: Ludus Latinus. Latin grammar . Leipzig 1927. 2nd edition 1928. 3rd improved edition 1929. 4th edition 1930

literature

  • Heinz Stallmann: The Prinz-Heinrichs-Gymnasium zu Schöneberg 1890-1945. History of a school . Berlin 1965, p. 74
  • Barthel Hrouda : Carl Kappus (1879-1951) . In: Eikasmós . Volume 4 (1993), p. 239.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 563.
personal data
SURNAME Kappus, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kappus, Carl Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1951
Place of death Berlin