Ernst Schulze (historian)

Ernst Heinrich Ferdinand Schulze (born October 31, 1842 in Gotha ; † August 18, 1911 in Homburg before the height ) was a German historian , classical philologist and grammar school director.

Life

Ernst Schulze came from a Thuringian family of scholars. His grandfather Christian Ferdinand Schulze (1774–1850) and his father Adolf Moritz Schulze (1808–1881) were teachers; his father had been the rector of the Gotha City School since January 1842 and lived in Ohrdruf as pastor and superintendent from 1860 .

Ernst Schulze first attended the city school in Gotha and then went to the Gothaer Gymnasium illustrious , which was called Ernestinum from 1859, and after graduating in 1862 he studied classical philology, archeology and history at the universities of Jena and Bonn (from the winter semester 1863), where he was particularly influenced by Otto Jahn and Friedrich Ritschl . Schulze completed his studies with a doctorate as Dr. phil. (March 10, 1866) and the teaching exams (June 6 and December 29, 1866), with which he acquired the license to teach in Latin, Greek, Ancient History and German for all classes, in Middle and Modern History up to intermediate level .

On October 1, 1866, Schulze began his probationary year at his home school, the Ernestinum Gymnasium; but before it expired, he was appointed senior teacher on May 7, 1867. During this time he continued his scientific studies, for example with a brochure on the vase collection of Baron Ferdinand von Leesen (1871). In 1872 Schulze was appointed director of the Reformed Church School in Saint Petersburg , which had been founded in 1818 by the three Reformed parishes in the city and had had a high school department since 1864. Schulze headed the school for 16 years from October 21, 1872 and received several state awards: the Order of St. Anna 2nd Class (December 22, 1878) and the Order of St. Vladimir 4th Class (May 15, 1883) and the Order of Saint Stanislaus 2nd Class (January 31, 1890).

As director of the Reformed Church School, however, Schulze had to struggle with numerous difficulties. Teachers and students came from three different lingual Reformed communities in Saint Petersburg (German, Dutch and French), and as a result of the Russification efforts under Tsar Alexander III. the demands on knowledge of the Russian language, literature and history increased. Since Schulze's health also suffered from the constant strain, he applied for a director's position in Germany at the secondary school in Homburg vor der Höhe in May 1888 . He got the job and took up his new post on June 2, 1888. During his term of office several reforms of the Realgymnasium fell: the integration of a Progymnasium (until 1890) and a Realschule without Latin (from 1891), as well as the expansion into a full-fledged grammar school with an attached Realschule, which was decided by the Magistrate in 1896 and carried out until 1899. On February 21, 1900 the grammar school was inaugurated as the Kaiserin Friedrich grammar school . The redesign of the school structure was accompanied by new building projects, which Schulze energetically pushed. In 1898 he pushed through an extension with additional classrooms, which however also proved to be inadequate in the following years.

In June 1911, Schulze asked for his retirement, but did not live to see it again: he died on August 18, 1911 at the age of 68.

Fonts (selection)

• De excerptis Constantinis quaestiones criticae . Bonn 1866 (dissertation)
• De vasculo picto et Amazonis pugnam et inferiarum ritus repraesentante . Gotha 1870 (school program)
• Description of the vase collection of Baron Ferdinand von Leesen . Leipzig 1871
• Ancient Rome as a metropolis and cosmopolitan city . Berlin 1878
• Sketches of Hellenic poetry . Gotha 1881
• Adiumenta Latinitatis. Basics of the Latin style for the top level of high school . Leipzig 1883
• Dr. Adolf Moritz Schulze . A picture of his life and work designed for relatives and friends . Dresden 1884
• Outline of logic and overview of Greek philosophy . Leipzig 1886
• About the amalgamation of Latin adjectives with subsequent nouns to form an overall concept . Homburg vor der Höhe 1890 (school program)
• Biography of Prince Ludwig Gruno of Hessen-Homburg . Homburg vor der Höhe 1892
• The Roman forum as the center of public life . Gütersloh 1893
• The shows for the entertainment of the Roman people . Gutersloh 1895
• Contributions to the life story of the Hereditary Prince Friedrich Josef von Hessen-Homburg and his siblings . Homburg vor der Höhe 1899
• Unprinted letters from Prince Leopold von Hessen-Homburg and his siblings, 1804–1813 . Homburg vor der Höhe 1899 (school program)
• Through night to the light. Scenes from Homburg's past days in 1813 and 1814 . Homburg vor der Höhe 1900
• The Roman border fortifications in Germany and the Limes Fort Saalburg . Gütersloh 1903. 2nd edition 1906. 3rd edition 1912, edited by Julius Schoenemann
• The Landgrave Monument to Homburg vd Höhe . Homburg vor der Höhe 1906
• About essence and promotion of attention . Homburg vor der Höhe 1908 (school program)

literature

• Bruno Schulze: Chronicle of the Schulze (Schultze) family from Lauban . Leipzig 1901, pp. 46-47
• Heinrich Jacobi: Chronicle of the Saalburg . In: Saalburg yearbook . Volume 2 (1911), pp. 1–9 (on Schulze especially 3–4)
• Kaiserin-Friedrich-Gymnasium, connected with Realschule in Homburg vor der Höhe. School year 1911–12 . Homburg vor der Höhe 1912, pp. 20–22

Web links

Wikisource: Ernst Schulze  - Sources and full texts

• Ernst Schulze's personnel sheet in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)