Ferdinand Bamberger

Ferdinand Bamberger (born January 24, 1809 in Braunschweig , † July 17, 1855 in Karlsbad ) was a German classical philologist and teacher.

Life

Bamberger was the son of a businessman in Braunschweig. After attending school (at the Martino-Katharineum and the Carolinum), he went to the University of Leipzig in 1827 to study classical philology with Gottfried Hermann . In 1829 he moved to Berlin University , where Karl Lachmann and August Böckh taught at the time. Bamberger passed his exams at Easter 1831 and in autumn took up a position as a collaborator at the large school in Wolfenbüttel. Here he taught various subjects, just not the ancient languages ​​for which his studies had prepared him. That changed only when he switched to the Braunschweig upper secondary school in 1833. He maintained close contacts with his local colleagues Adolf Emperius and Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin .

In addition to his teaching activities, Bamberger dealt with ancient literature, especially with the tragedian Aeschylus . In his Marburg dissertation from 1832 ( De carminibus Aeschyleis a partibus chori cantatis ) he had already examined the choral parts in his pieces. He also dedicated two school programs to him (1835, 1841) and wrote an edition on Grave Donors (1840). He also dealt with other Greek authors and the Roman Horace in a few essays that appeared, among others, in the journal Philologus founded by Schneidewin .

His poor health forced Bamberger to take repeated spa and bathing trips; He died on one in Karlsbad on July 17, 1855. His former colleague Schneidewin, who was now a professor in Göttingen , published his scattered writings in the anthology F. Bambergeri Opuscula philologica maximam partem Aeschylea (Leipzig 1856).

literature

• Friedrich August Eckstein :  Bamberger, Ferdinand . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 37 f.

Web links

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