Ernst Wüst

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Ernst Wüst (born March 17, 1875 in Balgheim near Nördlingen , † October 18, 1959 in Munich ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher.

Life

Ernst Wüst, the son of the secondary school teacher Konrad Wüst, attended the Latin school in Nördlingen and the grammar school near St. Anna in Augsburg, where he passed his school leaving examination in 1893. He then studied classical philology, philosophy and history at the University of Erlangen . In 1895 he moved to the University of Munich , where he passed the teaching examinations for Latin, Greek and philosophy in 1897 and 1898. During his studies he became a member of the Germania Erlangen fraternity in 1894 .

After graduating, Wüst worked as a teaching trainee at the humanistic grammar school in Neuburg an der Donau , then as an assistant at the Progymnasium in St. Ingbert , at the Old High School in Bamberg and at the Royal High School in Günzburg .

On 23 July 1901 he was at the University of Munich with a thesis Contributions to textual criticism and exegesis of Platonic Politeia doctorate . His doctoral supervisor was Iwan von Müller , to whom Wüst also dedicated the dissertation.

Shortly afterwards, Wüst received his first permanent position in the Bavarian school service: On September 1, 1901, he was appointed high school teacher at the Royal Humanistic Gymnasium in Dillingen an der Donau . In 1906 he moved to the Theresien-Gymnasium in Munich , where he was promoted to senior teacher.

In the spring of 1940, at the age of 65, Wüst was appointed honorary professor of classical philology at the University of Munich. The appointment went back to the initiative of Vice Dean Franz Dirlmeier , who wanted to create a replacement for the professors in the field. Even after the end of the Second World War , Wüst continued to teach (without having to undergo the denazification process as unencumbered ). In 1947 he was appointed to the Bavarian Ministry of Education as a senior school officer. In 1952 he received the Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany.

In addition to his work in schools and universities, Wüst also did philological research. His focus was on Greek mythology and Attic comedy . Since the 1930s he has been writing articles for the Realencyclopedia of Classical Classical Studies and extensive literature reports in which he summarized research from the turn of the century to the 1950s. His late work was a Lexicon Aristophaneum , which appeared long after his death: His son Karl Wüst published it in 1984 with a foreword by Günther Pflug .

Fonts (selection)

  • Contributions to the textual criticism and exegesis of the Platonic Politeia . Dillingen 1902 (dissertation)
  • Aristophanes Studies, as the forerunner of an Aristophanes lexicon . Munich 1908 (school program)
  • New Aristophanes Studies . Erlangen 1914 (school program)
  • Skolion and γεφυρισμός in the old comedy . In: Philologus . Volume 77 (1921), pp. 26-45
  • On the value of ancient languages ​​for the education of our youth . Wuerzburg 1922
  • Epicharmos and the old Attic comedy . In: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie . Volume 93 (1950), pp. 337-364
  • Epicharmos and the old Attic comedy . In: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie . Volume 101 (1958), pp. 75-91
  • Lexicon Aristophaneum. A handwritten special dictionary for the comedies of Aristophanes . Munich 1984

Editing

  • Lucretius: The universe. A selection from the translation by Max Seydel . Munich 1927
  • K. Kraut, W. Rösch: Anthology from Greek prose writers . 2nd Edition. Three issues, Stuttgart 1930–1931

literature

  • Ernst Wüst . In: Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . Founded by Joseph Kürschner . 9th edition. De Gruyter, Berlin 1961, OCLC 257208470 , p. 2332. 2396 .
  • Maximilian Schreiber: Classical Studies in National Socialism . In: Elisabeth Kraus (Ed.): The University of Munich in the Third Reich , Volume 1, Utz, Munich 2006, pp. 181–248 (on Wüst, p. 242. 246)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 556.

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personal data
SURNAME Wüst, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wüst, Wilhelm Traugott Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Balgheim (Möttingen)
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1959
Place of death Munich