Christian August Volquardsen
Christian August Volquardsen (born October 6, 1840 in Hadersleben , † August 1, 1917 in Kiel ) was a German ancient historian .
Life
Christian August Volquardsen, the son of the rector of the Hadersleben School of Academics, Peter Volquardsen (1797–1852), studied with Alfred von Gutschmid in Kiel . During his studies in 1863 he became a member of the Teutonia fraternity in Kiel . After completing his studies, he was a teacher from 1864 to 1869 at the grammar school in his home town Hadersleben. During this time he was awarded Dr. phil. PhD. He then taught at the grammar school in Potsdam until 1874 and was then appointed full professor of ancient history at the University of Kiel. In the winter semester of 1879 he moved to the University of Göttingen . Here he lost interest in teaching and research. He hardly wrote any more writings and was frowned upon at the seminary because of his alcoholism. That is why the classical philologist Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff took over the ancient history courses and tried to get Volquardsen transferred to another university at the ministry. In 1897 Volquardsen managed to return to Kiel with a raise in salary. The professor there, Georg Busolt , moved to Göttingen on Wilamowitz's recommendation. In 1909, Volquardsen was appointed a secret councilor in Kiel and retired in 1912. He primarily dealt with the history of the country.
Fonts (selection)
- Investigations into the sources of the Greek and Sicilian stories in Diodorus, books XI to XVI , Kiel 1868. in the Google book search
- Speech to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Schleswig-Holstein uprising , Kiel 1898.
- From the history of Schleswig-Holstein , Leipzig 1907. in the Google book search
- Memories from the history of Schleswig-Holstein , Leipzig 1915.
literature
- Jochen Bleicken : The Formation of Ancient History in Göttingen. From Heyne to Busolt . In: Carl Joachim Classen (Hrsg.): The classical antiquity at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. A lecture series on their history . Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989, pp. 98–127, ISBN 3-525-35845-8 .
- Mortimer H. Chambers : Georg Busolt. His career in his letters . Brill, Leiden 1990, p. 108 ff., ISBN 90-04-09225-0 .
- Friedrich Volbehr , Richard Weyl: Professors and lecturers at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 1665–1915 . Schmidt & Klaunig, Kiel 1916, p. 111.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 211.
Web links
- Literature by and about Christian August Volquardsen in the catalog of the German National Library
Alfred von Gutschmid (1866–1873) | Christian August Volquardsen (1873–1879) | Georg Busolt (1879–1897) | Christian August Volquardsen (1897–1912) | Max L. Strack (1912-1914) | Hugo Prinz (1915–1934) | Paul L. Strack (1935-1941) | Herbert Nesselhauf (1946–1948) | Alfred Heuss (1948–1955) | Friedrich Vittinghoff (1955–1962) | Horst Braunert (1963–1976) | Frank Kolb (1977–1986) | Peter Weiß (1987-2008) | Andreas Luther (since 2008)
Heinrich Nissen (1877–1878) | Christian August Volquardsen (1879–1897) | Georg Busolt (1897–1920) | Ulrich Kahrstedt (1921–1952) | Alfred Heuss (1954–1975) | Jochen Bleicken (1977–1991) | Gustav Adolf Lehmann (1993-2010) | Tanja Scheer (since 2011)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Volquardsen, Christian August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ancient historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hadersleben |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1, 1917 |
| Place of death | Kiel |