Ferdinand Ascherson

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Karl Eduard Ferdinand Ascherson (born December 10, 1832 in Berlin ; † January 15, 1904 there ) was a German classical philologist and librarian .

life and work

Ferdinand Ascherson, from a Jewish family and baptized Protestant, was the son of the Secret Sanitary Councilor Ferdinand Moritz Ascherson (1798–1879) and brother of the later botanist Paul Friedrich August Ascherson . He attended the Friedrichswerder high school in Berlin and from 1851 studied classical philology at the universities of Berlin and Bonn . He received his doctorate in Berlin in 1856 under August Boeckh . From 1859 to 1895 he worked as a librarian at the University Library in Berlin , initially as a laborer, from 1870 as 2nd curator, from 1874 as 1st curator, from 1888 with the title of librarian and from 1889 with the title of professor. From 1858 to 1872 he was the co-editor of the collected little writings of August Boeckh. He was the editor of the German University Calendar .

Ferdinand Ascherson was a member of the Odd Fellows , from 1879/80 and from 1894 to 1905 he was Grand Master of the Berlin District Grand Lodge.

Publications (selection)

  • De parodo et epiparodo tragoediarum Graecarum . Sittenfeld, Berlin 1856 (= dissertation, digitalized with curriculum vitae ).
  • (Ed.): August Boeckh: Orationes in Universitate litteraria Friderica Guilelma Berolinensi habitae . Teubner, Leipzig 1858.
  • Documents on the history of the jubilee celebration of the Royal Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin in October 1860, together with a list of the university's teachers from its foundation until October 15, 1862 . Guttentag, Berlin 1863.
  • with Ernst Bratuscheck , Paul Eichholtz (ed.): August Boeckh's collected small writings . 7 volumes, Teubner, Leipzig 1858–1872.
  • (Ed.): Berlin studies for classical philology and archeology . Calvary, Berlin 1883–1898.

literature

  • Staff register of officials at libraries . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 7, 1890, p. 34 ( digitized version ).
  • Karl Friese : History of the royal university library in Berlin . Berlin 1910, p. 108, 124, 133, 152.
  • Karl Bader: Lexicon of German librarians in the main and part-time positions with princes, states and cities (= Central Journal for Libraries, Supplement 55). Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1925, p. 6.
  • Renate Heuer : Bibliographia Judaica. Directory of Jewish authors in the German language Lexicon of German-Jewish authors . Vol. 1, Campus, Frankfurt 1981, ISBN 3-593-33061-X .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ History of the Berlin Grand Lodge .
personal data
SURNAME Ascherson, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ascherson, Karl Eduard Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1904
Place of death Berlin