Emil Heitz (classical philologist)

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Johann Heinrich Emil Heitz , also Jean Henri Émile Heitz and Aemilius Heitz (born September 13, 1825 in Strasbourg , Alsace ; † July 15, 1890 ibid) was a classical philologist , canon of the St. Thomas Church , professor and rector at the Kaiser Wilhelm University in Strasbourg.

Life

Johann Heinrich Emil was the fifth of eleven children of Friedrich Karl Heitz (also Frédéric Charles, 1798–1867) and his wife Barbara Luise, née Baerst. The couple's children formed the fifth generation of the renowned Strasbourg university book printers. Emil Heitz married Caroline Frédérique Lichtenfelder (1827–1902) on August 13, 1853. They had four children: Caroline Julie (1854–1944), Johann Heinrich Emil (1855–1944), Karl Timotheus Paul (1857–1943) and Friedrich Eugen (1859–1905). According to family tradition, Karl Timotheus Paul gave one of his sons the first names of his father or brother, namely Johann Heinrich Emil (1892–1965), who became known as a botanist and cytogeneticist.

University of Strasbourg

Emil Heitz received the Berlin Academy Prize for his work on the lost writings of Aristotle . In 1870 he became an associate professor in the Philosophical Faculty of the (old) University of Strasbourg. On March 11, 1871, the University of Leipzig awarded him an honorary doctorate. In the same year he became a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. After France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), the Strasbourg university was re-established as the Kaiser Wilhelm University in the German Empire and officially opened on May 1, 1872. The political changes made Emil Heitz from French to German and professor at the Philosophical Faculty. In addition, he was appointed a member of the chapter of St. Thomas Church in 1872 and head of the chapter in 1884. On May 1, 1885, he took over the rectorate of the Kaiser Wilhelm University.

Works

  • The lost writings of Aristotle. Teubner, Leipzig 1865.
  • Scriptorum Graecorum bibliotheca. 5. Aristotelis opera omnia; Graece et Latine cum indice nominum et rerum absolutissimo. 6. Fragmenta Aristotelis, collegit disposuit illustravit Aemilius Heitz. Firmin Didot, Paris 1869.
  • Karl Otfried Müller's history of Greek literature up to the age of Alexander. Part 1; 3rd edition A. Heitz, Stuttgart 1875.
  • Karl Otfried Müller's History of Greek Literature up to the Age of Alexander, Volume 2, Second Half. A. Heitz, Stuttgart 1884.
  • On the history of the old Strasbourg university. Speech given at the beginning of the Rectorate [1. May 1885]. Heitz, Strasbourg 1885.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hamburg State Archives: Higher Education. Lecturer and personnel files IV / 384: Heitz, Emil October 29, 1892. No. 13.
  2. ^ Karl Timotheus Paul Heitz: Commemorative publication for the bicentenary of the printer and publisher HEITZ in Strasbourg, 1719-1919. [JH Ed. Heitz,] Strasbourg 1918, p. 19.
  3. ^ Hamburg State Archives : Higher Education. Lecturer and personnel files IV / 384: Heitz, Emil October 29, 1892. No. 13.
  4. ↑ a b c René Burgun, Dominique Ray: Heitz - Jean-Henri-Emile (Strasbourg 1825-1890). In: Encyclopédie de l'Alsace. Volume 6. Publitotal, Strasbourg 1984, p. 3817.
  5. ^ Members of the previous academies. Emil Heitz. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on April 3, 2015 .
  6. ^ Emil Heitz: On the history of the old Strasbourg university. Speech given at the beginning of the Rectorate [1. May 1885]. Strasbourg, Heitz 1885.
personal data
SURNAME Heitz, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heitz, Johann Heinrich Emil; Heitz, Jean Henri Émile (French form of name); Heitz, Aemilius (Latin form of name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist, canon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1890
Place of death Strasbourg