Carl Koch (classical philologist)
Carl Koch (born August 20, 1907 in Frankfurt am Main , † September 18, 1956 in Erlangen ) was a German classical philologist .
Life
After studying Classical Philology and History in Frankfurt and Vienna , Koch received his doctorate in Frankfurt in 1932 under Walter F. Otto with the dissertation of the worship of the stars in ancient Italy. Sol indiges and the circle of the di indigetes . He moved to Königsberg in 1935 and completed his habilitation in 1937 with the work The Roman Juppiter, his essence in the change from myth to political idea . Finally in 1940 he was appointed lecturer in classical philology at the University of Königsberg. In the same year he became acting representative of the Latinist chair at the University of Graz and from January 1, 1943 a regular associate professor. After his military service, which he performed from January 1942 until the end of the war, as a Reich German he was not allowed to return to the University of Graz and from May 1946 to October 1947 he represented the Latinist chair for Classical Philology in Munich . Following a call to Erlangen , he was appointed professor of classical philology there until his death in 1947.
Fonts (selection)
- Star worship in ancient Italy. Sol indiges and the circle of the di indigetes . (= Frankfurt Studies on Ancient Religion and Culture Volume 3) Klostermann, Frankfurt a. M. 1933 (= dissertation Frankfurt 1932).
- The Roman Juppiter . (= Frankfurt studies on the religion and culture of antiquity . Volume 14) Klostermann, Frankfurt a. M. 1937 (reprint = 2nd unchanged edition, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1968) (= Habilitation thesis Königsberg 1937).
- Religio. Studies on Cult and Belief of the Romans , ed. by Otto Seel . H. Carl, Nuremberg 1960 (p. XIV curriculum vitae).
literature
- Jutta Franke: Koch, Carl. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 431 ( digitized version ).
- Wolfgang Buchwald: Koch, Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 271 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Koch in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
First chair: Albert Muchar (1827–1849) | Karlmann Tangl (1850–1863) | Karl Schenkl (1863–1875) | Otto Keller (1875–1881) | Alois Goldbacher (1882–1908) | Josef Mesk (1909–1914) | Richard Meister (1918–1920) | Karl Mras (1921–1933) | Otmar Schissel von Fleschenberg (1926–1943) | Carl Koch (1943–1945) | Endre von Ivánka (1947–1961) | Karl Vretska (1961–1971) | Eugen Dönt (1971–1981) | Walter Pötscher (1982–1997) | Eveline Krummen (since 1999)
Second chair: Emanuel Hoffmann (1850–1856) | Max Theodor von Karajan (1857–1904) | Richard Cornelius Kukula (1905-1919) | Karl Prinz (1919–1939) | Hans Gerstinger (1940–1960) | Franz Stoessl (1961–1981) | Franz Ferdinand Schwarz (1982–1996) | Ursula Gärtner (since 2016)
Third chair: Wilhelm Kergel (1871–1891) | Heinrich Schenkl (1892–1917) | Josef Mesk (1917–1940)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koch, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 18, 1956 |
| Place of death | gain |