Eduard Maetzner

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Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner (born May 25, 1805 in Rostock , † July 13, 1892 in Steglitz ) was a German grammar school teacher, Romance studies , English studies and philologist.

life and work

Eduard Maetzner, born the son of a master painter, received his first theological doctorate in Greifswald in 1825 on Theses historico-exegeticae . In a second course he studied philology in Heidelberg and Berlin and spent two years as a teacher in the francophone Yverdon . From 1831 to 1833 he was a high school teacher in Bromberg . In 1834 he did his PhD in Berlin philology with De Jove Homeri . From 1838 to 1888 he was rector (and later director) of the Berlin Luisenschule at Oranienburgerstrasse 69. At the same time, he privately ran an educational institution for teachers.

Maetzner was admitted to Freemasonry in 1854 and was a member of the Berlin Freemason Lodge on Secrecy .

He died in Steglitz in 1892 at the age of 87 and was buried in Berlin's Sophienfriedhof II . The grave has not been preserved.

Publications

Romance Studies
  • Syntax of the New French language. A contribution to historical-comparative linguistic research , Berlin 1843–1845
  • La nobla Leyczon , Berlin 1845.
  • Old French songs . Corrected and explained with reference to the Provencal, Old Italian and Middle High German song poetry. Along with an old French glossary, Berlin 1853, Wiesbaden 1969.
  • French grammar with special attention to Latin , Berlin 1856, 2nd edition 1877, 3rd edition 1885.
English studies
  • English grammar , 3 volumes, Berlin 1860, 1864, 1865; 2nd edition 1873-1875, 3rd edition 1880, 1882, 1885.
  • with Karl Goldbeck: Old English language samples together with a dictionary , 4 volumes, Berlin 1867, 1875, 1885, 1900. ( Old English dictionary A - misbeleven, unfinished).
  • Middle English language and literature samples. New edition of Mätzner's Old English language samples with an etymological dictionary at the same time for Chaucer , ed. by Alois Brandl , Berlin 1927.
Classical Philology
  • Lycurgi Oratio In Leocratem , Berlin 1836.
  • Antiphontis Orationes XV , Berlin 1838.
  • Dinarchi Orationes III , Berlin 1842.
Further
  • The authors of European national literature , in: Annual report of the first urban secondary school for girls , 7 booklets, Berlin 1846–1852.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ entry " Maetzner (a. Mätzner), Eduard Adolf Ferdinand ". In: Stephan Sehlke: Pedagogues - Pastors - Patriots. Biographical handbook on printed matter for children and young people by authors and illustrators from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from the beginning up to and including 1945 . Norderstedt 2009. p. 240.
  2. ↑ Mushacke's German school calendar , 20th year, Berlin 1871, p. 181
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 48.
personal data
SURNAME Maetzner, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mätzner, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German grammar school teacher as well as Romance and English studies
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1892
Place of death Steglitz