Eduard Bornemann

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Eduard Bornemann (born June 14, 1894 in Frankfurt am Main ; † May 3, 1976 ) was a German classical philologist and professor for the didactics of Latin and Greek at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. He is best known as the author of the "Latin teaching work" and the Greek grammar (together with Ernst Risch ).

Life

Eduard Bornemann, the oldest of seven children of a city magistrate's in Frankfurt, which visited by Karl Reinhardt led Goethe-Gymnasium , where he completed Easter 1913, the High School. He studied in Giessen , Göttingen and Frankfurt am Main. Due to the First World War , in which he participated as a medical sergeant, he had to interrupt his studies for four years.

In the spring of 1920 he passed the final exams in Latin , Greek , history , gymnastics and swimming. He completed his pedagogical training in 1921 at the Goethe Gymnasium for Latin, Greek and history. The experienced mountaineer and skier later acquired the qualification to teach gymnastics .

After a few years as a study assistant at the Goethe-Gymnasium - apart from a six-month activity at the Gymnasium zu Oberlahnstein in the summer of 1925 - he switched to the humanistic Lessing-Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main at Easter 1926 , where he had already been teaching gymnastics in the winter of 1923/24. There he was in the fall 1927 school teacher and in 1942 a senior teacher. At the Lessing-Gymnasium, which goes back to the municipal Latin school founded in 1520, he worked until his retirement in 1960.

Received his doctorate in 1923 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, in 1954 he was appointed honorary professor for the didactics of the Latin and Greek languages at this university . As early as 1923, he had also given courses at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, which he continued - apart from an interruption during the Nazi era - until the 1975/76 winter semester.

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As chairman of the German Classical Philology Association , he represented the ancient languages after the Second World War in a time of upheaval. His short article “Latin or English? A pedagogical reflection on the basic linguistic education ”is considered to be groundbreaking.

His main work was at the Lessing-Gymnasium in Frankfurt, which he led at times towards the end of the war when the school had been evacuated to the Westerwald . He survived a trial that had brought him his frank and critical statements against National Socialism in his classes.

He developed a teaching method for Latin lessons that was specially tailored to the needs of German native speakers, in which he always endeavored to "put didactic accessibility on top of scientific reliability". After the Second World War, the first edition of his "Latin Teaching Work" was published in 1947 and 1948 by the Frankfurt Hirschgraben Verlag, initially in two volumes; The first volume was for the Sexta (5th grade), the second for the Quinta and Quarta provided (6 u. 7th grade). In 1952 a two-volume revision was published and in 1954 a considerably shortened, one-volume B-edition for Latin as a third foreign language from the Obertertia (9th grade) appeared.

In 1959 a two-volume C edition followed for Latin as a second foreign language from the fourth grade (7th grade). In 1964 he revised the basic work for Latin as the first foreign language in collaboration with his former student and then colleague at Lessing High School, Sydney Smith , and published it as an A edition in three volumes, which were intended for three to three and a half school years .

There was also a “Latin language teaching”, which belongs to the A edition, as well as a strongly abbreviated “Concise Latin language teaching” for the B and C edition. In almost all of the old federal states, thousands of students have used the "Latin teaching material" for decades. Today the B-edition is mainly used in Latin courses at universities.

It is a special feature of edition A of the "Latin Teaching Works" that all the Latin sentences it contains were either taken from original texts from antiquity or linguistically checked on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae and the Forcellini . A new edition has been revised so that it is also suitable for migrant children whose German is still faulty at the beginning of the 5th grade.

The initial revision of Adolf Kaegi's “Concise Greek Grammar” turned into a grammar of ancient Greek that could be used in schools as well as university classes, and published together with Ernst Risch . In addition, he edited and commented on numerous reading editions of Latin and Greek classics for school lessons; of these, only his comprehensively edited edition of the “Bellum Helveticum” from Caesar's “Bellum Gallicum” (Book I, Chapters 1–29) is currently in use, which is part of the B edition of the “Latin Teaching Work”.

Bornemann also wrote an edition of Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffmann, which was translated into Latin . He considered school diversity to be appropriate; as a humanist, however, he feared “the stranglehold of stupid ideologues”. He was extremely popular as a teacher and knew how to convey enthusiasm for the ancient languages ​​to his students with great enthusiasm. To them "he was - sit venia verbo - a fatherly friend, in his hours there was often a hearty laugh".

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  1. ^ In: Gymnasium. 58: 183-186 (1951).
  2. Cf. Frankfurt faces: Eduard Bornemann. In: FAZ . August 24, 1974 (with a portrait drawn by Erich Dittmann ).
  3. FAZ from June 15, 1974.
  4. See "Preface to the new edition" in: Volume 1, p. 6.
  5. ^ Eduard Bornemann (with the assistance of Ernst Risch): Greek grammar. 2nd Edition. Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Munich 1978, ISBN 3-425-06850-4 . (The first edition was printed in such a way that it is unusable due to the fact that many corrections were not taken into account by the typesetter)
  6. "Petrulus Hirrutus" The Struwwelpeter 'sive fabulae lepidae et Picturae iocosae quas Invenit ac depinxit Henricus Hoffmann doctor medicinae; picturas secundum Hoffmanni exemplar delineavit et lignis incidit Fridericus Kredel; versiculos in sermonem Latinum transtulit Eduardus Bornemann. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2002, DNB 964624141 .
  7. ^ FAZ of August 24, 1974.
  8. An authoritative Latin. In: FAZ . May 14, 1976.
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