Christian Friedrich Platz
Christian Friedrich Platz (born January 12, 1800 in Wertheim , † December 16, 1876 in Karlsruhe ) was a German high school teacher , translator , politician and archivist .
When Christian Friedrich Platz was born, Wertheim was still the residence of the independent county of Wertheim . With the Rhine Confederation Act in 1806 , the city and the country were added to the Grand Duchy of Baden . Platz first attended secondary school in Wertheim and then high school in Karlsruhe. He was most interested in history, politics and literature. Early on he published some poems in the Karlsruher Zeitung , but later he reserved this part of his work for private use.
After completing his studies, Platz worked at the reformed grammar school in Wertheim from 1821 , initially as a candidate, from 1825 as the second main teacher and grammar school professor. During this time his son Philipp Platz (1827–1900) was born, who later became a natural scientist and teacher at the secondary school in Karlsruhe.
His historical studies always related Platz to the needs of the time. From 1835 to 1846 he represented the city of Wertheim in the Second Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly ; he was also appointed councilor . As a liberal, among other things, he advocated freedom of the press and, in 1842, introduced a motion to lift censorship . He also campaigned for Baden to join the German Customs Union , which took place in 1836.
On August 12, 1845 he married Amalie Friederike Charlotte Marie von Ochsenstein (born June 12, 1804 Offenbach; died November 28, 1879 Karlsruhe) in Dreieichenhain.
After the Baden Revolution (1848/1849), Platz left his hometown and moved to Karlsruhe, where he worked as an archivist at the General State Archives in Karlsruhe . Mainly he devoted himself to the order and restoration of the press, among other things as editor in charge of the Wertheimer weekly advertisements and news . From 1851 to 1854 he was again a member of the Second Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly. In a pamphlet about the dispute between the Baden politicians Johann Baptist Bekk and Heinrich Bernhard von Andlaw-Birseck (1852) he pointed out the dangers of ultramontanism . In 1854 he moved from the main state archive to teach at the Karlsruhe Lyceum . He continued his journalistic activities. On the German question he was a staunch supporter of Prussia. He saw the fulfillment of his political ideal in the founding of the empire (1871).
When he retired (1867), Platz was appointed Privy Councilor .
In addition to his work as a teacher, politician and publicist, Platz also cultivated his literary interests throughout his life. As early as the 1830s, he published translations of the late antique poets Claudian and Quintus von Smyrna , whose epic about the Trojan War was rediscovered by the literary public. Platz spent more than twenty years working on the complete translation of the epic, which Gustav Schwab praised as early as 1839 in the preface to the sagas of classical antiquity . It then appeared in 1857/1858 in the series of Greek poets supervised by Schwab and Osiander in new metric translations by Metzler-Verlag .
Fonts (selection)
- Sample of a translation by Quintus of Smyrna . Wertheim 1835 (school program)
- Speech by Emperor Theodosius to his son Honorius. Translated from Claudianus de IV. Consul. Honorii. Verse 214 to 418 . Wertheim 1839 (school program)
- On the issue between Councilor of State Bekk and Baron v. Andlaw . Mannheim 1852
- The gods metamorphoses. A question of Homeric theology . Karlsruhe 1857 (school program)
- Quintus of Smyrna . 3 volumes, Stuttgart 1857–1858
- School speech to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig . Karlsruhe 1863
literature
- Friedrich von Weech (Hrsg.): Baden biographies . Volume 3 (1881), pp. 125-126
- Eduard Dietz: From the records of the Heidelberg and Berlin fraternity members Christian Friedrich Platz . In: Burschenschaftliche Blätter . Volume 21 (1907), pp. 205-207
- Friedrich Platz: Wertheimer Relationships . Baden-Baden 1934
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Place, Christian Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German high school teacher, translator, politician and archivist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1800 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wertheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 16, 1876 |
| Place of death | Karlsruhe |