Carl Prien

Carl Friedrich Ulrich Prien (born April 5, 1818 in Sophienhof in Schwansen near Ludwigsburg , † August 24, 1896 in Lübeck ) was a German classical philologist , teacher and politician .

Life

Born the son of a landlord, Prien studied philology at the Universities of Kiel and Bonn after attending the Schleswig Cathedral School from 1839 . During his studies he joined the Albertina fraternity in Kiel ; In Bonn he became a member and first speaker of the Fridericia Bonn fraternity in 1841 . After his exam and doctorate as Dr. phil. In 1845 he became an assistant at the Kiel University Library . A scholarship from the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences enabled him to study trips to Italy and Greece from 1846 to 1848 .

After his early return due to the Schleswig-Holstein survey , he became a teacher of history , geography and German language at the Naval Cadet School of the Schleswig-Holstein Navy in Kiel in 1848 . He also worked as a private lecturer in philology at the University of Kiel .

From 1848 to 1850 he was a member of the Schwansen Region in the Schleswig-Holstein State Assembly . From 1851 to 1853 he was vice-principal of the Meldorfer School of Academics .

After the complete restoration of Danish rule in the duchies in 1853 he had to leave Schleswig-Holstein. On August 24, 1853, he was appointed to succeed Johannes Classen as second professor at the Katharineum high school in Lübeck . In the vacancies after the end of the directorate of Johann Friedrich Jacob in 1854 and Friedrich Breier in 1880, he was managing director of the Katharineum. He retired at Easter 1884.

Since July 23, 1851 he was married to Bertha, b. Dittmer († 1889) from Kiel. The couple had a son and two daughters.

He was particularly interested in the teaching of Greek and the work of Aeschylus , on which he published two extensive school program treatises.

Works

• About the Laocoon Group: a work by the Rhodian School. Borchers, Lübeck 1856.
• Contributions to the criticism of Aeschylus Seven Before Thebes. School program, Rathsbuchdruckerei, Lübeck 1856 ( digitized ).
• The symmetry and response of the Roman elegy. School program, Rathsbuchdruckerei, Lübeck 1867 ( digitized ).

literature

• Friedrich August Eckstein : Nomenclator philologorum . Teubner, Leipzig 1871 (complete, corrected text, edited by Johannes Saltzwedel , Hamburg 2005: PDF )
• Karl Friedrich Ulrich Prien, Dr. phil. In: Lübeckische Blätter . Volume 38 (1906), p. 436 f.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-825-31118-X , pp. 349-350.