Emil Luebeck

Emil Luebeck (born July 3, 1848 in Konstadt in Silesia, † August 6, 1905 in Hamburg ) was a German ancient historian and high school teacher.

Life

Emil Luebeck, the son of a Silesian landowner, attended the grammar school in Brieg and from 1867 studied classical philology and German at the universities of Breslau and Greifswald . After serving as a volunteer in the French German War fought 1870-71, he was in 1871 with a thesis on the church historian Jerome with the distinction magna cum laude doctorate and laid in July 1872, the teaching examination in. After the probationary year (1872/1873) at the Gymnasium zu Lüdenscheid he was appointed assistant teacher. At Easter 1876 he moved to the grammar school in Hamm and a year later to the Johanneum in Hamburg. There he was appointed high school professor on June 1, 1892.

Since the 1990s, Luebeck had to limit his academic and academic work for health reasons. In 1897 and 1899 he took a six-month vacation. He retired on April 1, 1900. At that time he was almost completely blind. He died on August 6, 1905 at the age of 57.

In addition to his school activities, Luebeck stood out through special academic studies on church history and the marine life of antiquity. After his dissertation, which appeared in an expanded form at Teubner-Verlag in 1872, he wrote his main work in Hamburg, The Sea Being of the Greeks and Romans (two parts, 1891-1892) and articles for the Realencyclopadie of classical antiquity .

literature

• Franz Kössler: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century. Volume: Laabs – Lyon . Giessen 2008. p. 297 ( online )

Web links

Wikisource: Emil Luebeck  - Sources and full texts

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