Emil Baehrens

Paul Heinrich Emil Baehrens (born September 24, 1848 in Bayenthal near Cologne , † September 26, 1888 in Groningen ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Emil Baehrens was the son of the technician and manufacturer Emil Justus Baehrens (died March 3, 1852 in Cologne at the age of 29) and his wife Anna Maria Adelheid Baehrens, née Hagen (1828–1867). After the early death of his father, his mother married the doctor Gustav Adolf Hesse in 1857, who became Emil Baehrens' second father.

Emil was originally supposed to become a Kaufmann, but after attending the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cologne , where he passed the school leaving examination at Easter 1867 , he finally started studying classical philology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn . His academic teachers included Jacob Bernays , Franz Bücheler , Friedrich Heimsoeth , August Reifferscheid , Franz Ritter and Anton Springer . Most influenced him Lucian Müller , in which he metric and palaeographical attended exercises, as well as Otto Jahn and Hermann Usener who received him in 1868 in the Philological seminar. In 1870 Baehrens passed the senior teacher examination and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. From 1871 to 1872 he deepened his studies at the University of Leipzig with the text critic Friedrich Ritschl . He then went on his first educational trip, on which he saw ancient manuscripts in Munich, Milan, Bologna, Pisa, Venice, Florence, Lucca, Siena, Rome and Naples. In Rome he stayed at the Archaeological Institute for six months and made many contacts there.

After his return in autumn 1873, Baehrens completed his habilitation in Jena with the work De Sulpiciae quae vocatur satira, commentatio philologica . In the following years he gave lectures and undertook further research trips: from January to April 1874 he visited the libraries in Leuven, Brussels and Paris, from March to August 1875 Paris, London and Oxford. In the summer semester of 1877 he was promoted to associate professor, but in the same year followed an appointment to full professor at the University of Groningen . Over the next eleven years he gave numerous lectures and again visited the library in London. In Groningen he married the daughter of his colleague Willem Hecker , professor of history. On September 26, 1888, at the age of just forty, Baehrens died of a brain abscess after 26 days. One of his three surviving children was the classical philologist Wilhelm Baehrens .

As a result of his research, Emil Baehrens supplied important editions by various Latin authors, including Catullus ( Analecta Catulliana with a Corollarium , Jena 1874. Edition by Teubner , Leipzig 1876. Commentary by Teubner, 1885), the Panegyrici Latini (Leipzig 1874), Valerius Flaccus ( C. Valeri Flacci Setini Balbi Argonauticon libri octo , Leipzig 1875), Statius ( Silvae , Leipzig 1876), Tibull ( Tibullische Blätter , Jena 1876. Edition by Teubner, Leipzig 1878), Properz (Edition by Teubner, Leipzig 1880), Horaz ( Lectiones Horatianae , Groningen 1880), Tacitus ( Dialogus de oratoribus , Leipzig 1881), Minucius Felix ( Octavius , edition by Teubner, Leipzig 1886).

His largest company was the edition Poetae latini minores , which appeared from 1879 to 1883 in five volumes by the Teubner publishing house. It was reworked by Friedrich Vollmer from 1910 to 1923 . The first volume appeared in 1930 in a revision by Willy Morel . As a continuation of the collection, Baehrens published the Fragmenta poetarum Romanorum in Teubner-Verlag in 1886 , which today - in succession to Willy Morel and Karl Büchner - by the Fragmenta poetarum Latinorum epicorum et lyricorum (praeter Enni Annales et Ciceronis Germanique Aratea) by Jürgen Blänsdorf (Berlin / New York ⁴ 2011) has been replaced.

literature

Nekrolog von Tjalling Halbertsma (1841–1898), in: Annual report on the progress of classical antiquity. 16th year. 1891, pp. 7-46.
Nekrolog von JW Beck, in: Archive for Latin Lexicography and Grammar , 5th year 1888, pp. 606–608 in the Google book search

Web links

Wikisource: Emil Baehrens - Sources and full texts

Literature by and about Emil Baehrens in the catalog of the German National Library
Entry on Aemilius Baehrens in the Catalogus Professorum Academiae Groningianae (Dutch): posthumous portrait of Franciscus Hermanus Bach (1906)

Individual evidence

^ Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, regional court Cologne, registry office Cologne, births, 1848, document no. 146.
^ Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, regional court Cologne, registry office Cologne, deaths, 1852, document no.450.
↑ Werner Schäfke (Ed.): Am Römerturm. Two millennia of a Cologne district. (= Publications of the Cologne City Museum. Volume 7.) Cologne City Museum, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-927396-99-0 , p. 167 note 95.
^ The state Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium and Realgymnasium in Cologne 1825–1925. One hundred years of German cultural work on the Rhine , published by the university bookstore Oskar Müller, Cologne 1925, p. 53.

personal data
SURNAME	Baehrens, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bährens, Emil; Baehrens, Paul Heinrich Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 24, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bayenthal
DATE OF DEATH	September 26, 1888
Place of death	Groningen

[1] Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, regional court Cologne, registry office Cologne, births, 1848, document no. 146.

[2] Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, regional court Cologne, registry office Cologne, deaths, 1852, document no.450.

[3] Werner Schäfke (Ed.): Am Römerturm. Two millennia of a Cologne district. (= Publications of the Cologne City Museum. Volume 7.) Cologne City Museum, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-927396-99-0 , p. 167 note 95.

[4] The state Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium and Realgymnasium in Cologne 1825–1925. One hundred years of German cultural work on the Rhine , published by the university bookstore Oskar Müller, Cologne 1925, p. 53.