Emil Herkenrath

Emil Herkenrath (born November 23, 1878 in Berlin ; † 1945 ) was a German classical philologist , Middle Latin philologist and high school teacher .

Emil Herkenrath, son of a factory owner, graduated from high school Adolfinum in Moers in 1878 . He studied classical philology and archeology at the University of Berlin and received his doctorate in 1902 with a thesis on the frieze of the Artemis temple of Magnesia am Mäander . Then he took part in the excavations in Miletus under Theodor Wiegand .

In 1907 he passed the state examination and did his probationary year at the high school in Colmar . From 1908 to 1943 he was a teacher for Latin and history at the grammar school in Essen and lived in Essen-Heisingen . Scientifically, he was mainly active in the field of Middle Latin philology . Herkenrath died in a bomb attack towards the end of the war.

Publications

• The frieze of Artemision of Magnesia a. M. Berlin 1902.
• The Enoplios. A contribution to the Greek metric. Teubner, Leipzig 1906 ( full text ).
• The figurative jewelry. In: The Nymphaeum. (= Miletus. Results of excavations and investigations since 1899. Vol. 1, 5). de Gruyter, Berlin 1919, pp. 55–72 ( full text ).
• Scholars. The goings-on of medieval schoolchildren, students and vagabonds in their poetry. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1927.
• Medieval life after Caesarius von Heisterbach. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1928.
• Mycenaean cult scenes. In: American Journal of Archeology 41, 1937, pp. 411-423.

literature

• Carl Watzinger : Theodor Wiegand. A German archaeologist. Beck, Munich 1944, p. 116. 471.

Web links

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

Remarks

1. ↑ This emerges from letters from Otto Schumann , s. Frank-Rutger Hausmann: The subject of Middle Latin Philology at German universities from 1930 to 1950. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-7772-1005-6 , p. 98, note 245.