Ferdinand Deycks

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Ferdinand Deycks (born November 22, 1802 in Burg an der Wupper , † December 18, 1867 in Münster in Westphalia ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Deycks was born the son of a lawyer who gave him his first scientific training. He attended high school in Düsseldorf and in 1820 went to the University of Bonn , where he studied philology and history with Christian August Brandis , Barthold Georg Niebuhr , Karl Friedrich Heinrich , August Ferdinand Naeke and Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker . In 1823 he moved to Berlin for a year , where he was shaped by August Boeckh , Friedrich August Wolf and Friedrich Schleiermacher . After his return to Bonn, he was in 1827 with a thesis on the philosophical school of Megarians doctorate .

After completing his studies, Deycks worked as a collaborator at the Düsseldorf high school and from 1828 as a high school teacher in Koblenz. Here he was appointed senior teacher and high school professor. He has written several program publications and essays on ancient and contemporary literary topics. After a year-long trip to Italy (1842–1843), he was appointed to the Theological and Pedagogical Academy in Münster in 1843 , where he remained until the end of his life. From 1845 Deycks was next to Hermann Ludwig Nadermann, the second director of the Philological Seminar. After Nadermann's departure, he was promoted to first director in 1853.

Works

  • Memories from the life of the brothers Vincenz and Rütger Deycks, recorded for relatives and friends, in the summer of 1850. Regensberg, Münster 1851. Digitized

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