Curt Theodor Fischer

Curt Theodor Fischer (also Kurt Theodor Fischer , born November 24, 1869 in Aachen , † December 5, 1948 in Dresden ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher.

life and work

Curt Theodor Fischer attended grammar school in Pforzheim from Michaelis in 1878 and after graduating (Michaelis 1887) studied classical philology at the University of Leipzig , where Curt Wachsmuth and Otto Ribbeck in particular shaped him. Under her guidance, he wrote his dissertation, with which he was awarded a doctorate on August 8, 1892. phil. received his doctorate . On October 18, 1892, he passed the state examination for the higher teaching post.

Fischer completed the two-year preparatory period in the Saxon school service at the König-Albert-Gymnasium in Leipzig , from November 1892 to September 30, 1893 as a trial candidate and from October 1, 1893 to September 30, 1894 as a vicar. The geography historian Walther Ruge was one of his colleagues there . From Michaelis 1894 to November 1895, Fischer took leave for a study trip to Italy and Greece. After his return he worked as a private tutor in the small town of Brandis near Leipzig until he was employed as a senior teacher at the Royal Saxon Cadet Corps in Dresden at Easter 1896 . There he spent his further career. After the Kadettenanstalt was dissolved (1920), Fischer was appointed head of its successor institution, the Saxon State School, in March 1920 . At Easter 1923 he was appointed senior director of studies. During the time of National Socialism , the state school was closed in 1934 and Fischer was retired.

Fischer's research focus was on the Greek periegetes and historians. He published his doctoral thesis on Hanno the Seafarer in a revised form in 1893 as the first issue of a planned series on ancient geography and ethnography . However, no other issues have appeared; Fischer published only a preliminary study of the periplus of the pseudo-Skylax in the Festschrift for Justus Hermann Lipsius in 1894 .

In the years that followed, Fischer made a contribution to the continuation or completion of two critical editions, namely the Geographike Hyphegesis by Claudius Ptolemy and the library historike by Diodorus . For the Ptolemy edition, which the Parisian philologist Karl Müller had started, Fischer arranged for the printing of the second half volume with the original Greek text, Latin translation and Latin annotation, as well as the volume with reproductions of the map section (both in 1901). The still outstanding second volume with the text of Books 6 to 8, which Fischer had promised in the preface to the second half volume, did not appear.

On behalf of Teubner Verlag , Fischer revised the two missing volumes of the Diodor Edition, which were based on Immanuel Bekkers and Ludwig Dindorf's work. The editor of the first three volumes, Friedrich Vogel , had given up his work due to excessive workload. Fischer took over the editing of the fourth and fifth volumes, both of which he brought for publication in 1906.

In addition, from the late 1890s to the 1920s, Fischer was a contributor to Pauly's Realenzyclopedia of Classical Antiquity (RE), for which he wrote numerous articles on the geography of inner Africa .

Fonts (selection)

• Investigations in the field of old country and peoples customer . Book 1: De Hannonis Carthaginiensis Periplo . Leipzig 1893 (no longer published)
• Κλαυδίου Πτολεμαίου Γεωγραφικὴ ὑφήγησις / Claudii Ptolemaei Geographia. E codicibus recognovit, prolegomenis, annotatione, indicibus, tabulis instruxit Carolus Müllerus . Volume 1, Part 2, Paris 1901; Panel volume, Paris 1901.
• Διοδώρου Βιβλιοθήκη ἱστορική / Diodori Bibliotheca historica. Editionem primam curavit Imm. Bekker, alteram Ludovicus Dindorf. Recognoverunt Fridericus Vogel, Curtius Theodorus Fischer . Vol. 4–5, Leipzig 1906. Reprint Stuttgart 1964

literature

• Alfred Baldamus : The König-Albert-Gymnasium in Leipzig during the first twenty-five years of its existence (1880–1905) . In: Annual report of the König-Albert-Gymnasium in Leipzig about the school year from Easter 1904 to Easter 1905 . Leipzig 1905, p. 35
• Heinrich Meschwitz: History of the Royal Saxon Cadet and Page Corps from its establishment to the present . Dresden 1907, p. 390
• Kurt Gutwasser: The König-Albert-Gymnasium in Leipzig from 1880 to 1930 . Leipzig 1930, p. 24

Web links

Wikisource: Curt Theodor Fischer  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by Curt Theodor Fischer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Date of death according to the tomb in the north cemetery (Dresden) .