Christian Muff
Christian Fürchtegott Muff (born August 14, 1841 in Treffurt , † April 6, 1911 in Schulpforta ) was a German educator.
Life
Muff, son of a princely Hohenlohe head forester, attended grammar school in Mühlhausen / Thuringia and studied classical philology at the University of Halle from 1861 to 1864 . After completing his studies with a dissertation De antiquitatibus Romanis in Virgilii Aeneide illustratis , he became a teacher at the Latin secondary school of the Francke Foundations in Halle (Saale) in October 1865 and was appointed professor there in 1875. In the autumn of 1880 he was entrusted with the construction of the newly founded König-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Stettin . In 1893 he became director of the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Kassel , in 1898 rector of the Pforta state school near Naumburg (Saale) . From 1904 he was also a full honorary professor of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Halle.
In addition to his teaching activities, Muff published several school editions (text and commentary) of the works of Sophocles and Euripides . His German reading book for higher education institutions saw numerous new editions even after his death. He died in Pforta in April 1911 and was buried in his hometown of Treffurt.
literature
- Gustav Uhlig : † Christian Muff . In: The humanistic high school. Organ des Gymnasialverein 23 (1911), pp. 99-103.
Web links
- Works by and about Christian Muff in the German Digital Library
- Entry on Christian Muff in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
- Christian Muff's personnel sheet in the BIL's personal file in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Muff, Christian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Muff, Christian Fürchtegott (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hit |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 6, 1911 |
| Place of death | School gate |