Cornelius Hölk

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Cornelius Hölk (born November 22, 1869 in Itzehoe , † August 30, 1944 in Marburg ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher.

Life

Cornelius Hölk, the son of elementary school teacher Johann Hölk, attended the Royal High School in Glückstadt , where he was particularly influenced by the teachers Detlef Detlefsen (1833–1911) and Friedrich Reuter (1843–1923). On March 12, 1889, Hölk passed his school leaving examination and began studying Classical Philology and History at Easter at the Universities of Heidelberg (four semesters), Leipzig (two semesters) and Kiel . His academic teachers included Ivo Bruns and Paul Cauer in Kiel and Erwin Rohde in Heidelberg , from whom Hölk was inspired to write his doctoral thesis on the Akusmata (doctrinal sayings) of the Pythagoreans . On February 27, 1894, he was promoted to Dr. phil. doctorate , on July 21, 1894 he passed the state examination in Latin, Greek and history.

After completing his studies, Hölk served as a one-year volunteer (October 10, 1894 to October 10, 1895). During his service he was promoted to private on March 30, 1895 and to sergeant on September 23, 1895. Even after the end of his service, Hölk took part in military exercises, so that he was promoted to sergeant major on May 8, 1897.

On October 1, 1896, Hölk entered the preparatory service for the higher teaching post. He completed the seminar year at the Royal High School in Altona , the probationary year from October 1, 1897 at the Royal High School in Rendsburg. On October 1, 1898, he was employed as a scientific assistant teacher at the high school in Husum . After half a year he moved to the municipal and high school in Düsseldorf , where he was appointed senior teacher after a year (April 1, 1900) and was permanently employed. In Düsseldorf he joined the Literary Society founded by Kurt Kamlah , in which he acted as treasurer. On April 1, 1907, Hölk moved to the Steglitz grammar school . On October 1, 1909, he was appointed director of the Lüneburg Johanneum , where Bruno Snell was one of his students.

On July 1, 1917, Hölk went to the Philippinum High School in Marburg as director , where he worked until his retirement on March 31, 1932. At the same time he was chairman of the academic examination office of the University of Marburg . On 17 July 1925 he was appointed honorary professor for didactics of classical languages appointed at the University of Marburg, one of the first professors of this kind. Since the winter semester 1932/33 he was with the holding of the Latin courses for introduction to the sources of Roman law mandated . It is listed in the course catalog of the University of Marburg until the summer semester of 1944. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

Cornelius Hölk was married and had two children. The archivist and historian Erwin Hölk (1904–1945) was his son.

Fonts (selection)

  • De acusmatis sive symbolis Pythagoricis . Kiel 1894 (dissertation)
  • War speeches . Lueneburg 1917
  • Gymnasium and unified school . Marburg 1919
  • Paul Cauer in memory . In: The humanistic high school . Volume 33 (1922), pp. 2-7
  • To school reform. Extract from a lecture . In: The humanistic high school . Volume 36 (1925), pp. 68-74
  • Memories of Erwin Rohde . In: Cimbria. Contributions to history, antiquity, art and education . Dortmund 1926, pp. 37-41
  • The Philippinum grammar school in Marburg. Speech given at the 400th anniversary celebration on May 30, 1927 . Marburg 1927

literature

  • Inge Auerbach (arrangement): Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis. The academic teachers at the Philipps University in Marburg from 1911 to 1971. Marburg 1979, p. 525.

Web links

Wikisource: Cornelius Hölk  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Communication from the Marburg City Archives, January 12, 2011.
  2. ↑ Snell characterized Hölks pedagogical and didactic peculiarity in his lecture series Nine Days of Latin (= The small Vandenhoeck series. 10). Göttingen 1955, pp. 12-14 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Hölk, Cornelius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hölk, Cornelius Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Itzehoe
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1944
Place of death Marburg