Erich Bethe
Erich Julius Adolf Bethe (born May 2, 1863 in Stettin , † October 19, 1940 in Leipzig ) was a German classical philologist .
Life
Erich Bethe was a son of the Szczecin doctor Eduard Bethe (* 1828; † 1910) and his wife Marie Gerstaecker (* 1830; † 1917) from Berlin, a niece of the travel writer Friedrich Gerstäcker . His brother Martin Bethe became a doctor and also worked as a genealogist, his brother Albrecht Bethe became a professor of physiology.
Bethe studied classical philology, history and archeology in Greifswald and Göttingen , where he received his doctorate in 1887 under Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff . He then continued his studies in Bonn (with Georg Loeschcke ), where he completed his habilitation in 1891 . After three years as a private lecturer in Bonn and extensive travels in the Mediterranean region, he married the painter Margarete Loewe in 1894 and went to Rostock University as an associate professor . In 1897 Bethe moved to Basel as a full professor , and in 1903 to Giessen . In 1906 he accepted an appointment at the University of Leipzig , where he taught and researched until his retirement in 1931. In the academic year 1927/1928 he was rector of the university.
After the transfer of power , Bethe signed on November 11, 1933, the professors' commitment to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state at German universities and colleges .
literature
- Erich Burck : Leipzig 1921–1925: Richard Heinze (1867–1929), Alfred Körte (1866–1946), Erich Bethe (1863–1940) . In: Eikasmós . Volume 4, 1993, pp. 61-70.
- Otto Kern : Erich Bethe † . In: Gnomon . Volume 17 (1941), pp. 142-144
- Herbert Helbig : Bethe, Erich Julius Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 185 ( digitized version ).
- Genealogical Handbook of Bourgeois Families, Volume Thirteen, 1907, p.98
Web links
- Literature by and about Erich Bethe in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature about Erich Bethe in the state bibliography MV
- Erich Bethe in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
- Overview of Erich Bethe's courses at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1906 to summer semester 1914)
- Entry on Erich Bethe in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
Individual evidence
- ^ Tomb of the painter Margarete Loewe-Bethe accessed on January 27, 2017
- ↑ Bethe, Erich , biography in the portal kulturportal-west-ost.eu , accessed on June 29, 2017
- ^ Original scan of the election call for Hitler's policy, Nov. 1933. EB: p. 135, column "Individual Scientists", left column. Appeal text in 5 languages beforehand
First chair (until 1810 council professorship of the Greek language): Johannes Posselius (the elder) (1553–1591) | Johannes Posselius (the Younger) (1593–1623) | Johann Huswedel (1623–1627) | Bernhard Taddel (1650–1656) | Christian Woldenberg (1657-1659) | Heinrich Müller (1659–1662) | Christian Kortholt (1663–1665) | Johann Mantzel (1674–1681) | Gottfried Weiss (1684–1693) | Johann Gottlieb Möller (1694–1696) | Jacob Burgmann (1699–1724) | Jakob Christoph Wolff (1725–1758) | Hermann Jacob Lasius (1764–1802) | Johann Christian Wilhelm Dahl (1802–1803) | Immanuel Gottlieb Huschke (1806–1828) | Gustav Christoph Sarpe (1815–1830) | Ludwig Bachmann (1833–1881) Rudolf Helm (1907–1937) | Andreas Thierfelder (1938–1940) | Rudolf Helm (1947–1948) | Werner Hartke (1948–1955) | Franz Zimmermann (1961–1962) | Wolfgang Hering (1964–1986) | Wolfgang Bernard (since 1994)
Second chair: Franz Volkmar Fritzsche (1828–1887) | Eduard Schwartz (1887-1893) | Hans von Arnim (1893–1900) | Otto Kern (1900–1907) | Johannes Geffcken (1907–1933) | Kurt von Fritz (1933–1934) | Hans Diller (1937–1942) | Hermann Kleinknecht (1944–1951) | Werner Krenkel (1975–1993) | Jürgen Leonhardt (1994–1997) | Christiane Reitz (1999–2019) | Nicola Hömke (since 2019)
Third chair (from 1888 extraordinary): Richard Foerster (1875–1881) | Georg Kaibel (1882–1883) | Friedrich Leo (1883–1888) | Friedrich Marx (1888–1889) | Richard Reitzenstein (1889-1892) | Hans von Arnim (1893) | Erich Bethe (1893–1897) | Otto Kern (1897–1900) | Karl Kalbfleisch (1900–1903) | Otto Plasberg (1903–1909)
First chair: Emanuel Linder (1819–1843) | Wilhelm Vischer-Bilfinger (1832–1861) | Otto Ribbeck (1861–1862) | Adolph Kießling (1862–1869) | Friedrich Nietzsche (1869–1879) | Jacob Wackernagel (1879–1902) | Ferdinand Sommer (1902–1909) | Rudolf Herzog (1909–1914) | Werner Jaeger (1914–1915) | Peter von der Mühll (1917–1952) | Bernhard Wyss (1952–1976) | Joachim Latacz (1981-2002) | Anton Bierl (since 2002).
Second chair: Franz Dorotheus Gerlach (1819–1875) | Jacob Achilles Mähly (1875–1890) | Georg Ferdinand Dümmler (1890–1896) | Erich Bethe (1897–1903) | Alfred Körte (1903–1906) | Hermann Schöne (1906–1909) | Friedrich Münzer (1909–1912) | Ernst Lommatzsch (1912–1913) | Walter F. Otto (1913–1914) | Johannes Stroux (1914–1922) | Günther Jachmann (1922–1925) | Kurt Latte (1925–1931) | Harald Fuchs (1932–1970) | Josef Delz (1970–1987) | Fritz Graf (1987–1999) | Jerzy Styka (2000-2001) | Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer (since 2002).
Third chair: Franz Misteli (1879–1898) | Max Niedermann (1911–1925) | Jacob Wackernagel (1915–1936) | Albert Debrunner (1940–1949) | Karl Meuli (1942–1961) | Felix Heinimann (1966–1980).
Chair I (since 1962 focus on Greek studies ): Friedrich Karl Rumpf (1809–1823) | Friedrich Gotthilf Osann (1825–1858) | Ludwig Lange (1859–1871) | Eduard Lübbert (1871–1874) | Adolf Philippi (1874-1893) | Eduard Schwartz (1893–1897) | Albrecht Dieterich (1897–1903) | Erich Bethe (1903–1906) | Alfred Körte (1906–1913) | Rudolf Herzog (1913–1936) | Albrecht von Blumenthal (1940–1945) | Gerhard Müller (1962–1976) | Egert Pöhlmann (1976–1980) | Manfred Landfester (1980–2002) | Peter von Möllendorff (since 2003)
Chair II (since 1962 focus on Latin studies ): Heinrich Friedrich Pfannkuche (1803–1832) | Wilhelm Clemm (1874-1883) | Johannes Schmidt (1883-1892) | Richard Reitzenstein (1892-1893) | Gotthold Gundermann (1893–1902) | Richard Wünsch (1902–1907) | Otto Immisch (1907–1913) | Karl Kalbfleisch (1913–1934) | Wilhelm Süß (1934–1940) | Andreas Thierfelder (1941–1943) | Vinzenz Buchheit (1962–1989) | Jochem Küppers (1990-1997) | Helmut Krasser (since 1999)
First chair (from 1985 Greek studies ): Johann Friedrich Christ (1739–1756) | Johann August Ernesti (1756–1770) | August Wilhelm Ernesti (1770–1801) | Gottfried Hermann (1803–1848) | Reinhold Klotz (1849–1870) | Ludwig Lange (1871–1885) | Kurt Wachsmuth (1886–1905) | Erich Bethe (1906–1931) | Jürgen Werner (1985–1996) | Kurt Sier (since 1996)
Second chair (since 1974 Latin studies ): Friedrich Wolfgang Reiz (1782–1785) | Christian Daniel Beck (1785-1819) | Friedrich August Wilhelm Spohn (1819–1824) | Christian Daniel Beck (1825-1832) | Anton Westermann (1834–1865) | Friedrich Ritschl (1865–1876) | Otto Ribbeck (1877–1898) | Friedrich Marx (1899–1906) | Richard Heinze (1906–1929) | Friedrich Klingner (1930–1947) | Franz Dornseiff (1948–1960) | Walter Hofmann (1974–1990) | Ekkehard Stark (1992-2001) | Marcus Deufert (since 2003)
Third chair: Otto Jahn (1847–1850) | Gregor Wilhelm Nitzsch (1852–1861) | Georg Curtius (1862-1885) | Erwin Rohde (1886)
Fourth chair: Justus Hermann Lipsius (1877–1914) | Bruno Keil (1914–1916) | Alfred Körte (1917–1934) | Wolfgang Schadewaldt (1934–1941) | Karl Reinhardt (1942–1946)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bethe, Erich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bethe, Erich Julius Adolf (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szczecin |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 19, 1940 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |