Emil Woerner

Johann Gottlieb Emil Wörner (born December 18, 1841 in Leipzig ; died August 5, 1917 in Leipzig) was a German high school teacher and classical philologist .

Emil Wörner attended the Thomasschule in Leipzig from 1855 , where he passed his Abitur in 1860. Inspired by the lessons with Rudolf Hildebrand , at that time still a member of the German dictionary of the Brothers Grimm , which he edited from 1863, he began studying classical philology and ancient German at the University of Leipzig . His academic teachers included the Germanists Friedrich Zarncke and Theodor Möbius as well as the philologists Anton Westermann , brother of the publisher George Westermann , Reinhold Klotz and above all the philologist and linguist Georg Curtius , who came to Leipzig from the University of Kiel in 1862 . During his studies in 1860 he became a member of the Leipzig fraternity Germania .

In 1864 Wörner put the teaching examination in, in the same year at Georg Curtius with a thesis on the appellatives at Homer doctorate and immediately entered his probationary year at the Thomas school. In 1865 he was transferred as a full teacher to the Albertinum grammar school in Freiberg , and in 1866 as a senior teacher at the Fürstenschule Sankt Afra in Meißen . There he received the title of high school professor in 1872 . When the new Royal High School opened in Leipzig in 1880 , Wörner was appointed vice-principal. At Michaelmas in 1905 he retired.

In addition to his work as a teacher and vice-principal, Wörner was always scientifically active and regularly published larger and smaller treatises on philological and mythological topics. While the philological works were initially concerned with problems of Graecistics and especially Homer , his mythological contributions from his occupation with Virgil's Aeneid were devoted to figures from the Aeneas environment and therefore partly also devoted to Roman topics. Mention may be made here about the legend of the wanderings of Aeneas at Dionysius of Halikarnasos and Virgil or his contributions to Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher detailed Dictionary of Greek and Roman mythology , in particular Articles Aeneas . His philological essays appeared in Curtius' studies of Greek and Latin grammar and in the school programs of his schools. Furthermore, Wörner edited books 4–6 for the fourth edition of the Aeneide Virgil, which Karl Kappes (1825–1895) explained for school use .

But he also made a contribution to Die Gartenlaube , the “illustrated magazine” of the 19th century, or wrote an article about Leipzig's mayor Carl Wilhelm Otto Koch for the Association for the History of Leipzig , of which he was a board member.

Publications (selection)

• Nounorum Homericorum quae appellativa dicuntur ordine etymologico dispositorum index. In: Memoriam anniversariam. Meißen program 1869, 4, pp. 1-48 ( digitized version ).
• Ἀνόπαια . In: Georg Curtius: Studies on Greek and Latin grammar. Volume 6, 1873, pp. 347–371 ( digitized version)
• The nouns on υια . In: Linguistic treatises. Festschrift for Georg Curtius. Hirzel, Leipzig 1874, pp. 111–125 ( digitized version )
• Ἡ πείρινς, πείρινθος and Πέρινθος . In: Georg Curtius: Studies on Greek and Latin grammar. Volume 9, 1876, pp. 458-462. 468 ( digitized version )
• About the use of Homeric adjectives set with prepositions and formed with the suffix ιο . Meißen 1879 program, pp. 31–37.
• The legend of the wanderings of Aeneas with Dionysius by Halicarnasus and Vergilius. Program of the royal high school in Leipzig. Edelmann, Leipzig 1882, pp. 1–28 ( digitized version )

literature

• Franz Koessler: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century. Waag - Wytzes . Giessen 2007.
• Afranisches Ecce 1917 , 22nd issue, Dresden: Defeat of the association of former princely students , 1917; S. [1] -7

Remarks

1. ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 225.
2. ^ Three classic German educational establishments In: Die Gartenlaube 1893. Ernst Keil, Leipzig 1893, page 318.
3. ^ The Mayor of Leipzig, Dr. Otto Koch. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Leipzig. Volume 11, 1917, pp. 101-120.