Eduard Scheer

Eduard Scheer (born January 1, 1840 in Rendsburg , † May 19, 1916 in Breslau ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher.

Life

Eduard Scheer, the son of the glazier Gottlieb Heinrich Scheer, attended the elementary school in Rendsburg from Easter 1846, then received private tuition and was admitted to the Rendsburg School of Academics in autumn 1850. After his father retired in 1857 with a considerable fortune and moved to Altona, Eduard Scheer visited the Christianeum there in the fall of 1857 , where he took his school leaving examination on March 15, 1859.

In the summer semester of 1859 Scheer went to the University of Kiel and initially studied law , but after a short time switched to classical philology. On March 24, 1865 he passed the teaching examination in Latin and Greek for all classes as well as history and German for lower level II. He did not follow a doctorate . Scheer did not have to complete the usual probationary year, since he was employed as a provisional adjunct at the former school of scholars, the current Rendsburg high school, on April 1, 1865. As early as October 1, 1865, he was given a permanent position as a full teacher. In the following year (1866) Scheer developed a chest problem, which is why he received one year of paid leave from the school authorities at Easter 1867. He went on a recreational trip to Italy, which he was even able to extend for another year. Scheer stayed in Venice, Rome and Naples and got to know numerous artists and scholars, including Richard Foerster , with whom he later became friends (from 1881). At Easter 1869 he returned to Rendsburg, where he worked for another three years.

On October 1, 1872, Scheer became the third senior teacher at the Plön grammar school , where he lived through fifteen eventful years: there he married his first wife, with whom he had three children; after her untimely death he remarried (Friderike Wackernagel from Meldorf) and had two daughters, the younger of whom died early. In addition to teaching, Scheer continued his scientific studies, for which he received leave and support for a research trip to Italy in 1877 and 1883. On November 16, 1883, he received the title "Professor".

At Easter 1888 Scheer left his home in Schleswig-Holstein and went to the Saarbrücken grammar school as a senior teacher . On October 21, 1891 he received the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class (August 29, 1904: third class). From February 6th to September 10th, 1900 he managed the management business. From March 1 to May 31, 1903, he undertook another research trip to Italy, for which the Prussian Academy of Sciences (on the recommendation of Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff ) granted him a grant of 1200 marks. As a result of a long illness, Scheer retired on October 1, 1905.

In 1908 Scheer moved to Breslau , where he was appointed full honorary professor on September 17, 1908 at the request of the philosophical faculty. On April 2, 1909, fifty years after his matriculation, the University of Kiel awarded him an honorary doctorate in philosophy . Scheer gave lectures in Breslau on the Iliad , the Greek poets , Aeschylus , Sophocles , Herodotus , Quintilian , the Dialogus de oratoribus of Tacitus and the letters of Pliny . On November 1, 1909, he also took over the assistant position of the philological seminar, which included the obligation to hold Greek and Latin translation exercises for beginners and to manage the seminar library. In 1914 he gave up the position of assistant, later he also stopped his lectures. He died on May 19, 1916 at the age of 76.

Scheer's scientific work was directed at the Greek poets, especially the Alexandrians. He wrote exegetical and critical individual studies. His most important work is the critical edition of the iambic poem Alexandra by the Hellenistic poet Lykophron. The first volume appeared in 1881, the second with the Scholia in 1908.

Fonts (selection)

• Callimachus Ὁμηρικός . Rendsburg 1866 (school program), pp. 3–24
• De Plutarchi commentario in Hesiodi Opera et Dies . Rendsburg 1870 (school program), pp. 3-18
• Nonnullos Lycophronis locos explicabat, emendabat . Plön 1876 (school program)
• Miscellanea critica . Plön 1880 (school program)
• Lycophronis Alexandra recensuit Eduardus Scheer . 2 volumes, Berlin 1881–1908. Reprinted 1958
• Theon and Sextion . Saarbrücken 1902 (school program), pp. 3-19
• Studies on the dramas of Aeschylus . Leipzig / Berlin 1914
• Iwo. A story from old Schleswig-Holstein . Kiel / Leipzig 1920

literature

• Richard Foerster : Eduard Scheer . In: Annual report of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture . 94th year, 1916 (1917), Nekrologe, pp. 36–40, Textarchiv - Internet Archive
• Richard Foerster: Eduard Scheer . In: Annual report on the progress of classical antiquity . Volume 44, 1916/1918, Volume 177 (1918). Nekrologe (= Biographical Yearbook for Classical Studies . 38th Volume, 1916/18 (1918), pp. 12-25, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Wikisource: Eduard Scheer  - Sources and full texts

• Eduard Scheer's personnel sheet in the BIL's personnel file in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)