Edmund Lange

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Edmund Lange (full name Edmund Bernhard Lange , born April 27, 1855 in Altenburg , † April 14, 1932 in Berlin ) was a German classical philologist , historian and librarian .

Life

Edmund Lange, the son of the educator and pomologist Eduard Lange (1803–1868) and his wife Antonie geb. Better, attended the Friedrichgymnasium in Altenburg and after graduating (Easter 1876) studied Classical Philology in Jena (summer semester 1876 – summer semester 1877), Munich (winter semester 1877/78 – summer semester 1878), Berlin (winter semester 1878/79) and Halle (summer semester 1879 – summer semester 1880). In Halle, on February 25, 1880, Lange was awarded a doctorate with a dissertation on Cicero's assessment of Greek literature. phil. PhD ; on April 29 and 30, 1881, he passed the teaching examination.

From 9 June 1881 to the June 9, 1882 completed a long year of probation at school to Greifswald , where he then as a research assistant teacher remained. At the same time he worked from 1880 as a volunteer and unskilled worker at the University Library of Greifswald . On April 1, 1883, he moved to the municipal high school in Fürstenwalde , on April 1, 1884, he moved to Belgard an der Persante , in 1885 to Burgsteinfurt , and in 1887 to Hamm . Throughout these years he remained an assistant teacher and was not given a permanent position. On October 21, 1890, Lange left the Prussian school service and initially worked as an editor for the newspaper Deutsche Warte in Berlin . In 1892 he returned to the Greifswald University Library as an assistant librarian, where he was appointed librarian in 1900. When he retired in 1913, he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class. Lange spent his retirement in Berlin, where he died on April 14, 1932 at the age of 76.

Long research work focused on ancient literature and its tradition as well as the history of the Pomeranian region. He published studies on the Greek historians Thucydides and Xenophon and a school edition of Thucydides' description of the Peloponnesian War (1895-1896). His most important work is The Greifswald Collection Vitae Pomeranorum (1898), in which he provided a detailed description of the holdings of Pomeranian scholars and writers kept in the Greifswald University Library.

Eduard Lange had been married to Anna Mecklenburg, the daughter of the Wolgast doctor and poet Adalbert Mecklenburg (1829–1874), since 1899. His estate, which also includes the material left behind by his father Eduard Lange, contains letters, diary and notebook fragments from the years 1822 to 1932 and is owned by the Library for Research on Educational History .

Fonts (selection)

  • Quid cum de ingenio et litteris tum de poetis Graecorum Cicero senserit . In: Dissertationes philologicae Halenses . Volume 4 (1880), pp. 219–290 (dissertation)
  • Cleon with Thucydides . Cologne 1886 (school program, Burgsteinfurt)
  • The overcrowding of the grammar schools and the authorization system . Hamburg 1890 ( German contemporary and disputed issues 5.67)
  • Athens in the mirror of aristophanic comedy . Hamburg 1894 ( collection of scientific lectures 9)
  • Thucydides in selection . 5 volumes in 3 parts, Leipzig 1895–1896
  • The work on Thucydides since 1890. A critical review. Issue 1 . Leipzig 1897
  • The Greifswald collection Vitae Pomeranorum . Greifswald 1898
  • Xenophon. His life, his mindset and his works . Gütersloh 1900
Editing
  • Paul Schütze: Theodor Storm. His life and his poetry . 2nd, improved and increased edition, Berlin 1907. 3rd, improved and increased edition 1911. 4th, improved and considerably increased edition 1925

literature

  • Max Schmidt: History of the grammar school and the Realanstalt zu Greifswald from 1861-1911 . Greifswald 1911, p. 23; 26f .; 67
  • Franz Koessler: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century: Labs - Lyon . Giessen 2008 full text
  • Stephan Sehlke: Educators - Pastors - Patriots. Biographical handbook on printed matter for children and young people by authors and illustrators from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania up to 1945 . Norderstedt 2009, p. 218

Web links

Wikisource: Edmund Lange  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Franz Koessler: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century: Labs - Lyon . Giessen 2008 full text
  2. ^ Max Schmidt: History of the grammar school and the Realanstalt zu Greifswald from 1861-1911 . Greifswald 1911, p. 26.
  3. ^ Max Schmidt: History of the grammar school and the Realanstalt zu Greifswald from 1861-1911 . Greifswald 1911, p. 27
  4. ^ Central Journal for Libraries . Volume 17 (1900), p. 351.
  5. ^ Central Journal for Libraries . Volume 30 (1913), p. 48.
  6. ^ Central Journal for Libraries . Volume 49 (1932), p. 323.
personal data
SURNAME Lange, Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lange, Edmund Bernhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist, historian and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1932
Place of death Berlin