Eduard Lisco

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Gustav Hermann Eduard Lisco (born June 5, 1879 in Liebenwalde , † June 10, 1941 in Villingen ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher. He was director of the grammar schools in Gumbinnen (from 1916), Neuruppin (from 1920) and Göttingen (from 1924). After the seizure of power by the Nazis , he was forced in 1934 to retire.

Life

Lisco came from a Brandenburg pastor family. His parents were the lawyer Hermann Lisco (1850–1923) and Helene geb. Heilborn (1856-1924). Eduard Lisco attended the Prinz-Heinrichs-Gymnasium in Schöneberg . According to the company 'classics teacher influenced him Peter Corssen , David Coste and Otto Richter , Classical Philology study. That is why Lisco went to the Berlin University after graduating in the winter semester 1897/1898 , where he studied classical philology and German . He spent the summer semester of 1898 at the University of Heidelberg . As Lisco judged a few years later when he graduated, he still wavered in his field of study until 1899: “Since I devoted myself to too many scattered things during these three semesters, I had not yet taken the right path. I hope to progress on this now: That I will truly become a philologist . ”In the vita of his dissertation from the historian Max Lenz and the philologist Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff , he commemorates his dissertation in Berlin , to whom he owes much.

Studied in Göttingen

After his third semester, he moved from Berlin to the University of Göttingen . Here, Lisco claims, he got completely to philology "through the training of Kaibel , Leos and Roethes ". In addition to courses in ancient philology and German, he took history with Georg Busolt , paleography with Wilhelm Meyer , archeology with Karl Dilthey and linguistics with Wilhelm Schulze and Jacob Wackernagel . Numerous transcripts and transcripts of lectures have been preserved from this period, which are in the manuscript department of the Göttingen State and University Library . As a student, Lisco made friends with the writer Rudolf Borchardt . On September 15, 1903 he was with the dissertation Quaestiones Hesiodeae criticae et mythologicae ( " Text Critical and mythological studies on Hesiod ") doctorate that had emerged from an essay. Lisco examined the relationship between the Prometheus and Pandora myths in Theogony and in the Works and Days . His work was received with interest in the professional world, but rejected in detail. The Hesiod researchers Arthur Ludwich and Alois Rzach dedicated extensive discussions to him .

  • Georg Kaibel (1849–1901)

  • Friedrich Leo (1851-1914)

  • Gustav Roethe (1859-1926)

In October 1903, shortly before the teacher training exam, Lisco began his seminar year at the Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium in Charlottenburg . He was on leave from April 1 to May 15, 1904 and stayed at the German Archaeological Institute for research purposes . From October 1905, he completed his probationary year at the Bismarck High School in Berlin-Wilmersdorf . Shortly before the end of the probationary year, in October 1906 he worked as a research assistant at the German Archaeological Institute in Athens. Here he edited the sixth edition of Meyer's travel guide through Greece and Asia Minor .

High school teacher and director in Frankfurt (Oder), Schulpforta, Gumbinnen, Neuruppin

Since April 1, 1906, Lisco was permanently employed as a senior teacher at the Friedrichsgymnasium in Frankfurt (Oder) . He taught four hours a week at a school for secondary daughters in Frankfurt . On September 26, 1906, he married Bertha Helene Klein (born March 21, 1877 in Büdingen in the Grand Duchy of Hesse) in Mainz-Gonsenheim . On April 1, 1909, he switched to the Pforta State School . He received his first director's position on February 1, 1916 at the Friedrichsschule in Gumbinnen , which was both grammar school and secondary school . From January 11th to February 11th of the same year he also did military service as a gunner with the fourth field artillery regiment in Magdeburg . After the end of the First World War , Lisco tried to transfer to a high school in a university town. First he was transferred to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Neuruppin in October 1920 .

Directorate in Göttingen and ousted by the National Socialists

The school building of the Staatliche Gymnasium Göttingen (since 1947 Max-Planck-Gymnasium).

On July 1, 1924, Lisco found his position in life as director of the state high school in Göttingen. In his first year of employment he held several school events "which had the aim of awakening and strengthening a positive attitude towards the Weimar Republic " (Schäfer-Richter). In the course of the grammar school reform, Lisco developed interdisciplinary teaching units with the teaching staff at the Göttingen grammar school. Together with the Greek teacher Max Carstenn, he published a school edition of the Greek historian Thucydides from 1928 to 1935 , which was published by Teubner Verlag .

After the National Socialists came to power, Lisco was targeted by those in power as a supporter of the Weimar Republic. As a result of the law to restore the civil service (§ 5) Lisco was demoted on April 7, 1933 from the director of studies to the faculty member. Under increasing pressure, he asked for a retirement in February 1934, which took place on August 1. In the report on the year 1933/1934, the school management expressed their displeasure with this development: “The year under review, which was very eventful in itself, ends with particularly drastic changes for our school: after the final examination on 22/24. February asked school director Dr. Eduard Lisco his leave of absence, he fell victim to the provisions of Section 4 of the Civil Service Act ... School and students will not forget him, who was always inspired by the best of intentions. ”The school had to withdraw this open criticism two years later. In the revised version of the report of January 6, 1936, it only said: "He (Lisco) was retired as a non-Aryan on the basis of Section 5 of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service ...". After his retirement, Lisco moved from Theaterplatz 10 (right next to the school building) to the nearby Hainholzweg 15. The school management took on an interim role from 1934 to 1935. Otto Wecker true. Lisco spent his old age in Villingen in the Black Forest , where he died on June 10, 1941 at the age of 62. In the report of the Göttingen grammar school from 1940/1941 there is a note that “the director (Dr. Walther John ) laid the school wreath on the grave of the deceased”.

Eduard and Bertha Lisco had three children. Her daughter Hedwig Lisco (1907–1987) married the theologian Friedrich Heyer in 1934 . The sons Hermann (1910–2000) and Theodor (1913–?) Emigrated from Germany: Theodor in 1932 as a farm worker to Argentina and Hermann in 1936 to the USA, where he worked as a radiologist in cancer research.

Fonts (selection)

  • Quaestiones Hesiodeae criticae et mythologicae . Göttingen 1903 (dissertation)
  • From working lessons in ancient languages . Leipzig 1926
  • Thucydides: De bello Peloponnesiaco (text) . Leipzig 1928
  • Thucydides: De bello Peloponnesiaco (Commentary Book 1-4) . Leipzig 1930
  • Thucydides: De bello Peloponnesiaco (Commentary Book 5-8) . Leipzig 1931

literature

  • Christian Gahlbeck, Vacys Vaivada: Archive Guide to the History of the Memel Region and German-Lithuanian Relations , Berlin 2006. P. 130.
  • Friedrich Heyer :  Lisco (family article). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , pp. 681 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Dietfried Krömer , Manfred Flieger (ed.): Thesaurus stories. Contributions to a Historia Thesauri linguae Latinae by Theodor Bögel (1876–1973) . Leipzig 1996. ISBN 3-8154-7101-X , after p. 36 (portrait)
  • Uta Schäfer-Richter: The Jewish Citizens in the Göttingen District 1933–1945: Göttingen, Hann. Münden, Duderstadt. A memorial book , 2nd edition, Göttingen 1993. pp. 135-136.
  • Staatliches Gymnasium zu Göttingen, report on the school year 1933/34, reimbursed by the director of the institute i. V. Dr. Otto Wecker, senior teacher

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b In the vita of his dissertation, p. 82.
  2. ↑ per haec tria semestria nimis multis atque diversis rebus deditus nondum recta via eo tendebam, quo nunc me perventurum esse spero: ut vir vere philologus fierem.
  3. ↑ scholis me interfuisse cum aliorum vd tum Lenzii atque Wilamowitzii semper me meminisse iuvabit, quibus imprimis gratias ago.
  4. ↑ Gahlbeck / Vaivada (2006) 130th
  5. ↑ Schäfer-Richter (1993) 136.
  6. ↑ a b c Quoted from Schäfer-Richter (1993) 136.
personal data
SURNAME Lisco, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lisco, Gustav Hermann Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and grammar school director
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Liebenwalde
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1941
Place of death Villingen