Egon Roman

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Egon Römisch (born August 24, 1909 in Frankfurt am Main ; † December 17, 1976 in Heidelberg ) was a German classical philologist who was particularly active in the field of didactics of ancient languages.

Life

Egon Römisch, the son of the architect Michael Römisch, studied classical philology and German at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , the Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg and the Georg-August-University in Göttingen . In 1933 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD ; his thesis on the older Greek elegy had Otto Rainbow cared. After completing his studies, Römisch worked as a high school teacher in Frankfurt am Main. In 1941 he was employed by the German Academy (1925) as a lecturer in Wraza (Bulgaria). In 1943 Römisch was drafted into the army (Wehrmacht) and served in World War II .

After the end of the war, Römisch worked at the study seminar in Heidelberg, which he headed with the title of Senior Studies Director until he retired in 1972. Among other things, he supervised the trainee lawyers in Latin and Greek at the study seminar. In addition to this work, Römisch worked as a lecturer at the Philological Department of Heidelberg University until 1955 . He published school editions by Greek and Latin authors as well as monographs and essays on the subject didactics of ancient language teaching . Together with Severin Heß and Helmut Vester published the didactic series of Heidelberg texts . In 1970 Heidelberg University appointed him honorary professor for subject didactics of Latin and Greek languages ​​and literature.

Egon Römisch was married to the classical philologist Liselotte Eckardt , who in December 1934 in Heidelberg (also with Otto Regenbogen) with the dissertation Excursions and Ekphraseis with Lucan (published 1936) for Dr. phil. had received a doctorate. He died on December 17, 1976 in Heidelberg.

Fonts

  • Studies on the Older Greek Elegy . Heidelberg 1933 (dissertation)
  • Virgil's fourth eclogue in class . Heidelberg 1970
  • Metamorphoses of Ovid in class . Heidelberg 1976
  • Two horazodes. Interpretation of c. 3.9 and c. 1.10 for class . Heidelberg 1979
Editing
  • Greek in school. Didactics, plan and interpretation . Frankfurt am Main 1972
  • Learning objective and reading. Teaching projects in Latin . Stuttgart 1974
School expenses
  • Xenophon: anabasis. Selection. With introduction and explanatory list of names . Heidelberg 1949
  • Marcus Tullius Cicero. Selection from the speeches. Part A: Text . Frankfurt am Main 1952. 2nd, revised edition 1958. 3rd edition 1960. 4th edition 1962. 5th edition 1965. 6th edition 1968. 7th edition 1971
  • Marcus Tullius Cicero. Selection from the speeches. Part B: Explanations . Frankfurt am Main 1953. 2nd, revised edition 1959. 3rd, revised edition 1962. 4th edition 1965. 5th edition 1968
  • Marcus Tullius Cicero. Selection from De re publica and other philosophical writings. Part A: Text . Frankfurt am Main 1954. 2nd edition 1956. 3rd edition 1958. 4th edition 1960. 5th edition 1961. 6th edition 1963. 7th, revised edition 1966. 8th, revised edition 1967. 9th, revised edition 1969
  • Marcus Tullius Cicero. Selection from De re publica and other philosophical writings. Part B: Explanations . Frankfurt am Main 1955. 2nd edition 1957. 3rd edition 1958. 4th edition 1960. 5th edition 1961. 6th edition 1963. 7th, revised edition 1966. 8th, revised edition 1968. 9th, revised edition 1971
  • Roman humanity. Texts by Nepos, Cicero, Livius, Pliny and Tacitus. Part A: Text . Frankfurt am Main 1959. 2nd, revised edition 1962. 3rd, revised edition 1969. 4th, revised edition 1974
  • Roman humanity. Texts by Nepos, Cicero, Livius, Pliny and Tacitus. Part B: Explanations . Frankfurt am Main 1960. 2nd, revised edition 1963. 3rd, revised edition 1971
  • Cicero and his world. Selection from the letters. Part A: Text. Part B: Explanations . Frankfurt am Main 1962
  • Monumenta. Figures and pictures from the Roman forum. Part A: Text . Frankfurt am Main 1964. 2nd, revised edition 1970
  • Monumenta. Figures and pictures from the Roman forum. Part B: Explanations . Frankfurt am Main 1965. 2nd, revised edition 1971

literature

  • Who's Who in Germany . 7th Edition (1976), Volume 2, p. 219.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Who’s Who in Germany . 7th Edition (1976), Volume 2, p. 219.
  2. ^ German culture in the life of peoples. Communications from the German Academy . Year 1941, p. 495.
  3. ^ German culture in the life of peoples. Communications from the German Academy . Year 1943, p. 342.
  4. ↑ German university newspaper . Volume 33 (1977), p. 267.
personal data
SURNAME Roman, Egon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German didactic specialist in ancient languages
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 1976
Place of death Heidelberg