Dietrich Mülder (classical philologist)

Dietrich Mülder 1908

Dietrich Cornelius Mülder (born May 12, 1861 in Bunde , † October 14, 1947 in Stade ) was a German high school teacher and classical philologist who researched the origin of the Iliad in the first half of the 20th century and translated the ancient Greek poet Homer into German .

Life

Born in Bunde in 1861 as the son and grandson of a teacher, he graduated from high school Georgianum in Lingen in 1880 and then studied ancient languages and history at the universities of Tübingen and Göttingen . During his studies in 1880 he became a member of the Tübingen fraternity Derendingia . He also became a member of the Frisia Göttingen . After his legal clerkship in Aurich in 1886/1888, he taught as a teacher in Leer (East Friesland) , Osnabrück , Verden , and Hildesheim . Here he married Helene in 1899Klopp (1879-1962). In 1909 he was appointed director of the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Emden .

During the First World War , Mülder served as a captain. In 1917 he took over the position of director at the Gymnasium Athenaeum Stade , where he taught until he retired in 1926. Dietrich and Helene Mülder had three children, Jürgen Mülder (1899–1986), Luise, married. Lauenstein (1903–1996) and Dietrich Mülder (1906–2000).

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In addition to his work as a teacher and director, Mülder wrote numerous scientific articles, with his interests ranging from the medieval poet Albrecht von Johansdorf to Homer . He wrote two books that went to print: The Iliad and its sources (1910) and what is probably the first German-language prose translation of the Odyssey in modern times, entitled The True, Great and Immortal Homer. I: The Odyssey 1935 was published. The title indicates that a prose translation of the Iliad was planned as a further volume. Mülder had already come a long way with this when he died. A planned handover from the estate did not materialize.

In addition, from 1902 to 1929 Mülder commented on the current classical philological publications and wrote a number of reviews on contributions by other classical philologists.

In his work, Mülder primarily concerned himself with the analysis of the Iliad and the search for the poet Homer behind it. In contradiction to the prevailing scientific opinion of his time, he defended the thesis with verve that behind the Iliad there was a single poet who had presented a planned and self-contained work of art, which, as a new creation, was based on previous works, but which had no historical of their own Core. His publications received attention in German-speaking countries, but also in other European countries, and his books were reviewed by well-known classical scholars.

For his scientific achievements he was awarded the title of professor in 1906 and on his 80th birthday he was awarded the Goethe Medal for Art and Science .

Fonts

(based on Wilt Aden Schröder ).

• Albrecht von Johansdorf . A contribution to the Middle High German metric . Program of the Royal Real High School, Osnabrück 1894 (also Leipzig 1894).
• About the Latin syntax. In: Zeitschrift für das Gymnasialwesen 49 (NF 29), 1895, pp. 641–645.
• The Cyclopean poem of the Odyssey . In: Hermes 38, 1903, pp. 414–455
• Hectoros anairesis. In: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 59, 1904, pp. 256–378.
• Horkion synchysis. In: New Yearbooks for Classical Antiquity 13, 1904, pp. 635–643.
• To Thucydides . In: Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift 24, 1904, pp. 668–669.
• Homer and the Altionic elegy . Supplement to the program of the Kgl. Andreanum High School. Hildesheim 1906 (also Hanover 1906).
• Analysis of the twelfth and tenth books of the Odyssey. In: Philologus 65, 1906, pp. 193–247.
• The poem of the Odyssey. In: New Yearbooks for Classical Antiquity 17, 1906, pp. 10–45
• Skylla In: Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift 26, 1906, pp. 1437-1438.
• Choirilos of Samos , a poetic source of Herodotus . In: Klio 7, 1907, pp. 29-44.
• The Iliad and its sources. Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1910.
• Iliad. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IX, 1, Stuttgart 1914, Col. 1000-1057.
• The Demaratos inscription of Dikaios . In: Klio 13, 1913, pp. 39-69.
• The travel experiences of Telemach (Odyssey books 3 and 4). An investigation into the poet's material acquisition and technique . In: Hermes 65, 1930, pp. 38-76
• Ithaca after the Odyssey. In: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 80, 1931, pp. 1–35.
• The true, great and immortal Homer. Volume 1: The Odyssey. Translation to German. With explanations by D. Mülder. Reisland, Leipzig 1936.

In addition, Mülder commented on the current publications of other Homer researchers and classical scholars over almost three decades under the title Reports on the Literature on Homer (Higher Critique) in the annual reports on the progress of classical antiquity .

Numerous other reviews appeared between 1906 and 1913 in the Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift (volumes 26–32).

literature

• Wilt Aden Schröder : Mülder, Dietrich Cornelius . In: Biographical Lexicon for East Frisia . Vol. III, Aurich 2001, pp. 299-302.
• Dietrich Mülder (jun.): In memoriam Dietrich Mülder (on the occasion of his 100th birthday). Private print, Berkeley, Calif., 1961 (family owned, copy in the Aurich Landscape Library ).

Web links

• Dietrich Mülder's personal data sheet in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Skutella: The Lingen high school graduates 1832-1933. Lingen 1933.
2. ↑ Membership directory of the Derendingia fraternity in Tübingen. October 1933, p. 19.