Carl Wagener (philologist)

Carl Eduard Wagener (born January 31, 1842 in Halberstadt ; † April 5, 1920 in Bremen ) was a German classical philologist and grammar school teacher who taught from 1874 to 1913 at the grammar school department of the Bremen secondary school and (from 1905) at the old grammar school. In professional circles he is particularly known as the editor of the Latin theory of forms of Christian Friedrich Neue ("Neue-Wagener").

Life

Carl Wagener, the son of a pensioner, attended the community school and the cathedral high school in Halberstadt, where Arnold Passow particularly influenced him. At Passow's suggestion, Wagener decided to study classical philology. After graduation, he first went to Northern Italy as a travel companion and from 1862 studied classical philology and German at the universities of Leipzig , Bonn and Berlin and passed the teaching examination in Latin, Greek and German in 1867.

From Easter 1867, Wagener taught in Bremen, initially as a private tutor and from 1868 as an assistant teacher at the secondary school . A year and a half later he moved to the Georgianum grammar school , which had been under the direction of his former teacher Passow since 1868. During this time Wagener submitted a dissertation at the University of Jena in 1870 and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . He dedicated his doctoral thesis on the locative in Latin to Passow, who died that same year.

At Michaelis 1871 Wagener left Lingen and accepted a permanent position as a regular teacher at the secondary school in Bremen. He first taught at the pre-school and from Easter 1874 at the grammar school, which was spun off as the old grammar school at Easter 1905 . On March 31, 1913, Wagener retired. He was born with Meta since 1870. Köhler, the daughter of a bank clerk in Bremen. The couple had six children, one of whom died young.

Wagener occupied himself with the grammar of the Latin language with a focus on inflection , syntax and orthography . In addition to special studies, he wrote textbooks for school and university instruction. His most important achievement in this area is the revision of the form theory of the Latin language by Christian Friedrich Neue , which Wagener completely revised for the 3rd edition (1892–1905).

From Wagener's studies on Latin grammar, text-critical editions by Latin authors of late antiquity emerged, namely the historians Eutropius ( Breviarium ab urbe condita ) and Rufus Festus . In addition to his main research interests, Wagener also pursued other areas of his subject and wrote reviews and literature reports. From 1886 to 1908 he edited the Neue Philologische Rundschau together with his Bremen colleague Ernst Ludwig (1845–1912) .

Fonts (selection)

• De locativi Latini usu . Jena 1870 (dissertation)
• Brief Latin Orthography for Schools . H. Ebeling & C. Plahn, Berlin 1871.
• Contributions to a Latin syntax . Bremen 1872 (school program)
• Tabular index of the main Latin words with inconsistent spelling, compiled according to the latest results . Gotha 1882
• Eutropi Breviarium from urbe condita . Leipzig 1884
• Festi Breviarium rerum gestarum populi Romani . Leipzig 1886
• Main difficulties of Latin form theory compiled in alphabetical order . Gotha 1888
• Christian Friedrich Neue: Form theory of the Latin language . 3rd, completely revised edition. Three volumes, Leipzig / Berlin 1892–1905
• Contributions to Latin grammar and the explanation of Latin writers . Volume 1, Gotha 1905

literature

• Felix Pabst: Wagener, Carl Eduard . In: Bremisches Jahrbuch . Volume 28 (1922), pp. 135-137

Web links

Wikisource: Carl Wagener  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by Carl Wagener in the catalog of the German National Library