Conrad Bursian
Conrad Bursian (born November 14, 1830 in Mutzschen ( Saxony ), † September 21, 1883 in Munich ) was a German philologist and archaeologist .
After his parents moved to Leipzig , he went to St. Thomas School and in 1847 to Leipzig University . He studied with Moriz Haupt and Otto Jahn until 1851, spent six months in Berlin , mainly listening to Philipp August Böckh , and completed his university education in Leipzig in 1852. He spent the next few years traveling to Belgium , France , Italy and Greece . In 1856 he became a private lecturer and in 1858 an associate professor in Leipzig. In 1861 he became professor of philosophy and archeology at theUniversity of Tübingen , 1864 professor for classical antiquities at the University of Zurich . In 1869 he went to the University of Jena , where he was also director of the archaeological museum, and in 1874 to the University of Munich , where he stayed until his death.
His student Carl Bezold married Bursian's daughter Adele in 1888.
Conrad Bursian was an honorary member of the Greek Philological Society in Constantinople from 1870 .
Works
His main works are:
- as editor: Iulius Firmicus Maternus : De Errore Profanarum Religionum. Accedunt capita quaedam libri X recognitionum Pseudoclementinarum. Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1856, digitized .
- as editor: Marcus Lucius Annaeus Seneca : Oratorum et Rhetorum Sententiae, Divisiones, Colores. Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1857, digitized .
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Geography of greece. 2 volumes. Teubner, Leipzig 1862–1872;
- Volume 1: Northern Greece. 1862;
- Volume 2: Peloponnesos and Islands. 1868–1872, digitized .
- Contributions to the history of classical studies in the Middle Ages. In: Session reports of the Philosophical-Philological and Historical Class of the KB Academy of Sciences in Munich. Vol. 3, 1873, ZDB -ID 961259-2 , pp. 458-518, digital version (PDF; 2.8 MB) .
- History of classical philology in Germany from the beginnings to the present (= history of science in Germany. Modern times. 19, ZDB -ID 1016690-7 ). Half 1–2 (= 2 volumes). Oldenbourg, Munich et al. 1883, digitized 1st half , digitized 2nd half .
The article about Greek art in Johann Samuelansch , Johann Gottfried Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts is from him. Most enduringly associated with his name are “Bursian's Annual Reports”, which continued until after World War II. The exact title of the work founded and edited by him is the annual report on the progress of classical antiquity (1873 ff., ZDB -ID 3921-4 ). From 1879 a Biographisches Jahrbuch für Altertumskunde (Nekrologe) ( ZDB -ID 3923-8 ) was published as supplements , the volume from 1884 contains his obituary and a complete list of his writings.
literature
- August Baumeister: Bursian, Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, pp. 401-406.
Web links
- Literature by and about Conrad Bursian in the catalog of the German National Library
- Conrad Bursian in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
- Overview of Conrad Bursian's courses at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1856 to winter semester 1860)
- Overview of Conrad Bursian's courses at the University of Zurich (summer semester 1864 to summer semester 1869)
- Article of Greek Art in the General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts
Conrad Bursian (1861–1864) | Adolf Michaelis (1865–1872) | Ludwig Schwabe (1872–1908) | Ferdinand Noack (1908-1916) | Carl Watzinger (1916–1947) | Bernhard Schweitzer (1948–1960) | Ulrich Hausmann (1960–1983) | Werner Gauer (1983-2003) | Thomas Schäfer (since 2003)
First full professorship (from 1969 Greek studies): Hermann Köchly (1850–1864) | Conrad Bursian (1864–1869) | Arnold Hug (1869–1886) | Hermann Hitzig (1886–1918) | Ernst Howald (1918–1952) | Fritz Wehrli (1952–1967) | Walter Burkert (1969–1996) | Christoph Riedweg (since 1996)
Second Ordinariate (Latin Studies): Heinz Haffter (1959–1970) | Hermann Tränkle (1971–1997) | Therese Fuhrer (1997-2004) | Ulrich Eigler (since 2005)
First chair: Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand (1817–1851) | Carl Nipperdey (1852–1875) | Erwin Rohde (1876–1878) | Rudolf Hirzel (1886–1913) | Christian Jensen (1913–1917) | Otto Weinreich (1918) | Friedrich Zucker (1918–1961) | Ernst Günther Schmidt (1974 / 87–1994) | Jürgen Dummer (1994–2000) | Jürgen Hammerstaedt (2000–2004) | Rainer Thiel (since 2005)
Second chair: Karl Wilhelm Göttling (1831–1869) | Conrad Bursian (1869–1874) | Rudolf Schöll (1874–1876) | Alfred von Gutschmid (1876–1877) | Heinrich Gelzer (1878–1906) | Georg Goetz (1906–1923) | Johannes Stroux (1923–1924) | Karl Barwick (1925–1954) | Friedmar Kühnert (1961–1981) | Volker Riedel (1987-2008) | Meinolf Vielberg (since 1994)
Extraordinary office: Friedrich Gotthilf Osann (1821–1825) | Hermann Weißenborn (1843–1849) | Georg Bippart (1850–1852) | Moritz Vermehren (1864–1893) | Ernst Diehl (1906–1911) | Albrecht von Blumenthal (1928–1938)
First chair (Latin Philology): Friedrich Ast (1826–1841) | Franz Hocheder (1842–1844) | Ernst von Lasaulx (1844–1847) | Leonhard Spengel (1847–1880) | Eduard Wölfflin (1880–1905) | Friedrich Vollmer (1905–1923) | Johannes Stroux (1924–1935) | Rudolf Till (1938–1945) | Franz Egermann (1951 / 62–1970) | Werner Suerbaum (1970–2001) | Claudia Wiener (since 2003)
Second Chair (Greek Philology II): Friedrich Thiersch (1826–1859) | Wilhelm von Christ (1860–1903) | Otto Crusius (1903-1918) | Eduard Schwartz (1919–1929) | Rudolf Pfeiffer (1929–1937) | Franz Dirlmeier (1938–1945) | Rudolf Pfeiffer (1951–1957) | Kurt von Fritz (1958–1968) | Uvo Hölscher (1970–1982) | Hellmut Flashar (1982–1997) | Martin Hose (since 1997)
Third Chair (Greek Philology I): Conrad Bursian (1874–1883) | Rudolf Schöll (1885–1893) | Iwan von Müller (1893–1906) | Albert Rehm (1906–1936) | Richard Harder (1941–1945) | Friedrich Klingner (1947–1963) | Carl Becker (1963–1973) | Ernst Vogt (1975–1999) | Oliver Primavesi (since 2000)
Fourth Chair (Latin Philology): Karl von Prantl (1859–1888) | Carl Weyman (1905–1931) | Wilfried Stroh (1976-2005) | Therese Fuhrer (since 2013)
Professorship for Classical Philology / Subject Didactics: Karl Felix Halm (1856–1882) | Markus Janka (since 2007)
Professorship for Ancient Latin Philology: Niklas Holzberg (1988–2011)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bursian, Conrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philologist and archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1830 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mutzschen ( Saxony ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 21, 1883 |
| Place of death | Munich |