Edmund Bigott

Edmund Bigott (born March 11, 1910 in Romb , Karthaus district , West Prussia ; † (missing) January 1, 1943 in Stalingrad ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Edmund Bigott, the son of the elementary school teacher Johann Bigott (1878-1954), attended elementary school in Eichenberg (Bukowa Góra) from 1916. In 1920, after West Prussia was annexed to Poland, the family was expelled. Only two years later did the father find a job in Habbelrath . Edmund Bigott attended the Schillergymnasium in Cologne-Ehrenfeld from Easter 1922 to February 1931 . From the summer semester of 1931 to the winter semester of 1935/36 he studied classical philology and German at the University of Cologne . Günther Jachmann , Ulrich Knoche and Josef Kroll were among his formative academic teachers . Jachmann also gave him the suggestion for his thesis on the composition of the Terenz comedy Andria , from which his dissertation emerged.

On June 23, 1937 Bigott passed the teaching examination in the subjects Greek, Latin and German (minor). Then he started his first year of traineeship at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium Cologne on October 1, 1937. He completed his second year of traineeship at the Dreikönigsgymnasium in Cologne. On February 11, 1939 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . On November 2, 1939, he was transferred to the high school in Cologne-Mülheim as an additional teacher; a few weeks later (November 20) he received a teaching position at the Wilhelm-Dörpfeld-Gymnasium in Wuppertal - Elberfeld .

Bigott was later called up for World War II . He is missing during the Battle of Stalingrad . He has been missing since January 1, 1943, which was also set as the official date of death.

In addition to his dissertation, Bigott also wrote an article about the comedy poet Turpilius for the real encyclopedia of classical antiquity (RE), which appeared only five years after his death.

Fonts

• The composition of Andria des Terence . Bochum 1939 (dissertation)
• Turpilius 7 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII A, 2, Stuttgart 1948, Col. 1428-1430.

Web links

• Literature by Edmund Bigott in the catalog of the German National Library
• Edmund Bigott's personnel sheet in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)
• Information on Edmund Bigott at the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge