Erich Reitzenstein
Erich Reitzenstein (born August 30, 1897 in Strasbourg ; † February 27, 1976 in Mainz ) was a German classical philologist .
Life
Erich Reitzenstein was born in 1897 as the younger of the two sons of the philologist and religious historian Richard Reitzenstein (1861-1931). His father moved to Freiburg in 1911 and taught at the Georg-August University in Göttingen from 1914 . Erich Reitzenstein graduated from high school in 1916 at the municipal high school there. Immediately afterwards he volunteered and was sent as an infantryman to the Western Front , where he was stationed until the end of the First World War . He rose to lieutenant and was awarded the Iron Cross, second class.
In the summer semester of 1919 Reitzenstein began studying Classical Philology and Romance Studies at the University of Göttingen . He changed universities several times. After several semesters in Göttingen, Freiburg and Berlin , he completed his studies in Heidelberg , where he was influenced by the philologist Franz Boll . With him Reitzenstein wrote his dissertation on the script of Theophrastus von Eresos περὶ μετεώρων ( About celestial phenomena ), which had only been translated back from Arabic by Gotthelf Bergstrasse a few years earlier . 1923 Reitz stone was with the thesis Theophrastus in Epicurus and Lucretius doctorate . An important result of his work was that for the first time the dependence of Epicurus on the physics of the Peripatetic was shown and proven.
After graduation, Reitzenstein completed his probationary year and worked as a private school teacher and lecturer in Bologna . The difficult economic situation of the 1920s delayed his professional advancement. In 1926 his academic career opened up for him: he became an assistant at the University of Bonn and completed his habilitation here in 1929 with Christian Jensen with the text Zur Stiltheorie des Kallimachos . It was not until 1933 that he was appointed senior assistant. He wrote numerous essays on poetological topics. His most extensive work from this period is the monograph Reality and Emotion Development by Properz (Leipzig 1936).
Shortly after his appointment as a non-civil servant associate professor in Bonn (1937), he moved to the University of Halle in the winter semester of 1937/1938 , where he was the chair of Greek studies . In 1938 he was appointed full professor. From August 1939 to October 1940 and from August 1941 to August 1944 Reitzenstein served as a reserve officer in World War II . An injury in the penultimate year of the war enabled him to return to his chair in Halle. In 1945 Reitzenstein was appointed professor with teaching post by the Soviet military administration. He turned down a call to the University of Leipzig (1948).
Reitzenstein was politically rather conservative. Under the National Socialists he was a member of the People's Welfare and the National Socialist Teachers' Association , but not the NSDAP . In 1945 he joined the CDU . After the alcohol group was banned in 1958, he resigned from the CDU, dealt with State Secretary Wilhelm Girnus and then fled via West Berlin to the Federal Republic of Germany . He left his library in Halle. That is why he did not take up his publishing activity , which was interrupted in the 1940s , for a long time.
After teaching positions in Mainz and Göttingen, Reitzenstein was appointed personal professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in 1960 . In 1965 he was at the age of 68 years emeritus . The death of his daughter in 1967 brought him to publish again. He wrote about the Cornelia elegy of Properz.
literature
- Klaus Sallmann : Erich Reitzenstein †. In: Gnomon . Vol. 48 (1976), H. 6, pp. 633-635 ( digitized from JSTOR ).
- Ingeburg and Wolfgang Luppe : Prof. Dr. Erich Reitzenstein, Full Professor of Classical Philology . In: Włodzimierz Appel (ed.): “Magistri et discipuli”. Chapter on the history of classical studies in the 20th century (= Xenia Toruniensia. Vol. VII). Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń 2002, pp. 77-85.
Web links
- Literature by Erich Reitzenstein in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Erich Reitzenstein in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
First chair: August Seidler (1816–1824) | Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier (1825–1855) | Theodor Bergk (1857–1869) | Heinrich Keil (1869–1894) | Georg Wissowa (1895–1924) | Ernst Diehl (1925–1937) | Franz Altheim (1937–1948) | Werner Peek (1951–1969) | Joachim Ebert (1983–1995) | Michael Hillgruber (since 1995)
Second chair: Abraham Gottlieb Raabe (1817–1845) | Wilhelm Dittenberger (1874–1906) | Otto Kern (1907–1931) | Paul Friedländer (1932–1935) | Erich Reitzenstein (1937–1958) | Berthold Häsler (1960–1974) | Wolfgang Kirsch (1986–1993) | Rainer Jakobi (since 1993)
Third chair: Karl Christian Reisig (1824–1829) | Gottfried Bernhardy (1829–1875) | Eduard Hiller (1876-1891) | Friedrich Blass (1892–1907) | Karl Praechter (1907–1927)
Greek Studies: Franz Dirlmeier (1946–1951) | Walter Marg (1953–1975) | Joachim Latacz (1978–1981) | Arbogast Schmitt (1981-1991) | Christoph Riedweg (1993–1996) | Jochen Althoff (since 1998)
Latin Studies I: Wilhelm Süß (1946–1950) | Andreas Thierfelder (1950–1971) | Jürgen Blänsdorf (1971–2004) | Christine Walde (since 2005)
Latin Studies II: Erich Reitzenstein (1960–1965) | Willy Schetter (1965–1972) | Antonie Wlosok (1973–1998) | Wilhelm Blümer (since 2001)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reitzenstein, Erich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reitzenstein, Erich Bruno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasbourg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 27, 1976 |
| Place of death | Mainz |