Ernst Karl Friedrich Wunderlich
Ernst Karl Friedrich Wunderlich (* 1783 in Westerengel not far from Trebra , Schwarzburg-Sondershausen ; † March 14, 1816 in Göttingen ) was a German classical philologist .
Life
Wunderlich attended high school in Gotha as a student of Friedrich Jacobs . With this background he studied classical philology at the University of Göttingen from 1801 to 1803 as a student of Christian Gottlob Heynes . In 1803 he was appointed collaborator at the Göttingen grammar school and was able to finance his further academic studies in this position. In 1806 he received his doctorate, in 1808 he was appointed assessor at the university, then in the same year he was appointed associate professor of classical philology. One of his students was Karl Lachmann , who later founded modern text criticism . Wunderlich died unexpectedly in 1816 of acute diphtheria ( sore throat ) at the age of 33.
His sons were the lawyer Agathon Wunderlich (1810–1878) and the later Prussian Consistorial President Oskar Wunderlich († 1882), the father of the officer of the same name, Oskar Wunderlich (1846–1914).
Works
Wunderlich wrote editions by various authors geared towards school use in Heyne's tradition:
- Albii Tibulli carmina libri tres cum libro quarto Sulpiciae et aliorum (1808; revised posthumously 1817, by Georg Ludolf Dissen )
- Observationes criticae in Aeschyli tragoedias tragoediarumque reliquias (1809)
- Demosthenis oratio pro corona, Aeschinis in Ctesiphontem (1810, 2nd edition 1820)
- P. Vergilii Maronis opera in tironum (completion of the Heyne edition, published posthumously by Friedrich Ernst Ruhkopf , Hanover / Leipzig 1816)
literature
- Johann Stephan Pütter , Friedrich Saalfeld : Attempt of an academic scholarly history from the Georg Augustus University in Göttingen. Third part from 1788 to 1820 . Hanover 1820, pp. 144f.
- Wilhelm Wiederhold: Wunderlich, Ernst Karl Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 311.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ernst Karl Friedrich Wunderlich in the catalog of the German National Library
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SURNAME | Wunderlich, Ernst Karl Friedrich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1783 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Western angel near Trebra , Schwarzburg-Sondershausen |
DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 1816 |
Place of death | Goettingen |