Erwin Rohde

Erwin Rohde

Erwin Rohde (born October 9, 1845 in Hamburg ; † January 11, 1898 in Neuenheim near Heidelberg ) was an important German classical scholar .

Life

Erwin Rohde with Carl von Gersdorff and Friedrich Nietzsche (from left), October 1871 in Naumburg (Saale)

As the second of four children of the Hamburg doctor Franz Adolph Rohde (1813–1866) and Bertha Maria Wilhelmina, b. Schleiden (1813–1882) Erwin Rohde first attended the then famous Stoysche Anstalt in Jena from 1852 to 1859 , before he returned to Hamburg in 1860, where he graduated from the Johanneum School of Academics in 1864. In the summer semester of 1865 he began studying classical philology at the University of Bonn . In the following winter semester, like his fellow student Friedrich Nietzsche, he moved to the University of Leipzig , where his friendship with Nietzsche began. In the winter semester 1867 Rohde went to the University of Kiel and was there on March 9, 1869 at Otto Ribbeck with a thesis on Julius Pollux doctorate . After a study trip to Italy, Rohde completed his habilitation in Kiel in the autumn of 1870 and began teaching as a private lecturer in the winter semester; on April 20, 1872 he became associate professor. In 1875 he applied for the chair at the University of Dorpat , which Wilhelm Hoerschelmann received. In 1876 Rohde accepted a full professorship at the University of Jena and just two years later, for the winter semester of 1878/79, he went to Tübingen . In 1886 he followed a call to the University of Leipzig, but after just one semester in the autumn of that year he switched to the University of Heidelberg as the successor to Curt Wachsmuth , and became its prorector in 1894/95. He turned down a call to the University of Strasbourg in early 1897.

Even during his time in Kiel, Rohde had advocated the pamphlet Afterphilology for the theses represented by Nietzsche in the Birth of Tragedy , which had previously been sharply attacked by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff . Years after this standing up for Nietzsche, however, the friendship broke up. In contrast, the friendship with Franz Overbeck , which had come about through their mutual friend Nietzsche and was reflected in a lively correspondence, lasted until Rohde's death.

Grave of Erwin Rohde and his wife Valentine Rohde, b. Framm at the Heidelberg Bergfriedhof

Although Rohde found the Nietzsche archive to be a "silly" idea, he initially supported it with some advice and assistance. After his death, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche appealed to Rohde's support, which she exaggerated. Rohde's student Ernst Holzer worked for a long time on the archive and published Nietzsche's Philologica.

His marriage to Valentine Framm (1859–1901) on August 8, 1877 had four children: Bertha (1878–1902), later wife of the Heidelberg geographer Alfred Hettner , Erwin (jun.) (1881–1915), since 1910 private lecturer for pharmacology at the University of Heidelberg, Anna (1885–1955) and the early deceased Hans Adolph (1895–1896).

Rohdes resting place is in the Heidelberg Bergfriedhof (Department N). His tomb is an obelisk made of black, polished granite; the inscription gives his name and that of his wife.

Fonts

• About Lucian's writing ΛΟΥΚΙΟΣ Η ΟΝΟΣ and its relationship to Lucius of Patrae and the metamorphoses of Apulejus. A literary historical investigation. Engelmann, Leipzig 1869 ( digital Bavarian State Library ).
• De Julii Pollucis in apparatu scaenico enarrando fontibus. Engelmann, Leipzig 1870 ( digital Bavarian State Library ).
• After philology. To illuminate the Dr. phil. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Möllendorff published pamphlets: "Future philology!". Letter from a philologist to Richard Wagner. Fritsch, Leipzig 1872 ( digital Bavarian State Library ).
• The Greek novel and its predecessors. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1876 ( Bavarian State Library digital ); 3rd, increased edition 1914 ( University of Regensburg. University library ).
• Psyche. Soul cult and belief in immortality of the Greeks. Mohr, Freiburg im Breisgau 1890–1894. ( Digitized and full text in the German text archive ); 7th edition Tübingen 1921.
• Small fonts. 2 volumes. Mohr, Tübingen 1901.
• Friedrich Nietzsche's correspondence with Erwin Rohde. Edited by Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche and Fritz Schöll . Berlin 1902.
• Franz Overbeck Erwin Rohde. Correspondence . Ed. U. commented v. Andreas Patzer (Supplementa Nietzscheana 1). de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1990.
• Letters from the estate. Edited by Marianne Haubold. Vol. 1-3. Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2015–2017.

literature

• Manuel Baumbach : Rohde, Erwin. In: The New Pauly . Supplement Vol. 6: History of Classical Studies. Biographical Lexicon. Ed. V. Peter Kuhlmann u. Helmuth Schneider. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, p. 1075 f.
• Hubert Cancik : Erwin Rohde - a philologist from the Bismarckian era. In: Semper apertus. Six hundred years of Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 1386–1986. Vol. 2: The Nineteenth Century: 1803–1918. Ed. V. Wilhelm Doerr . Springer, Berlin, pp. 436-505.
• Hubert Cancik : Erwin Rohde. In: Ward W. Briggs, William M. Calder III (Eds.): Classical Scholarship. A biographical encyclopedia (= Garland reference library of the humanities. Vol. 928). Garland, New York 1990, pp. 395-404.
• Hubert Cancik :  Erwin Rohde. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 761 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Giorgio Colli / Mazzino Montinari (eds.): Nietzsche correspondence. Critical Complete Edition, Vol. I 4: Review of the first section: Letters from and to Friedrich Nietzsche 1849-1869 . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1993, pp. 724-726.
• Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon, Vol. 2: 1803-1932 . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1986, p. 222 f. ISBN 978-3-642-70761-2 ; 2. [revised u. extended] edition Wiesbaden 2019, p. 665 f.
• Otto Crusius : Erwin Rohde. A biographical attempt. Mohr, Tübingen 1902 ( archive.org ).
• Gerhard Kaller, Rohde, Erwin . In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon , Vol. 8. Bautz, Herzberg 1994, Sp. 571-573.
• Fritz Schöll :  Erwin Rohde . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, pp. 426-440.
• August Marx, Erwin Rohde . In: Badische Biographien , Part V: 1891–1901. Ed. V. Friedrich von Weech u. Albert Krieger. Winter, Heidelberg 1906, pp. 661-669.
• Wilhelm Nestle , Erwin Rohde , in: Swabian Life Pictures, Vol. 1. Ed. Hermann Haering u. Otto Hohenstatt. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, pp. 435-444.
• Ernest Seillière : Nietzsche's brother in arms Erwin Rohde. Barsdorf, Berlin 1911.

Web links

Commons : Erwin Rohde  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Erwin Rohde  - sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Erwin Rohde in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wilt Aden Schröder : Biogram of Erwin Rohde in the scholarly historical prosopography of the Teuchos Center
• Overview of Erwin Rohde's courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1886)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Complete catalog raisonné in Marianne Haubold (ed.), Letters from the estate. Vol. 1. Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2015, pp. 13–28.