Ferdinand Gotthelf hand

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Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand (born February 15, 1786 in Plauen , † March 14, 1851 in Jena ) was a German classical philologist and the great-grandfather of Joachim Ringelnatz .

Hand, trained in Sorau , studied in Leipzig with Gottfried Hermann and Friedrich August Carus from 1803 and received his doctorate in philosophy in 1807. In 1809 he received his habilitation with Observationum criticarum in Catulli carmina Specimen and in 1810 he became a professor at the Wilhelm-Ernst-Gymnasium in Weimar in Franz Passow's position .

In 1817 he became an associate professor of philosophy and Greek literature and co-director of the philological seminar in Jena that same year. Since 1818, he taught the princesses Marie and Augusta von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach two days a week , whom he also accompanied to Saint Petersburg for a year in 1824. There he was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1825 .

In 1846, the year it was founded, he became a full member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences . Hand was also known as an art historian and musicologist. In Jena he also founded and maintained a rescue and work house for socially disadvantaged and poorly educated groups based on the example of the Weimar poor pedagogue Johannes Daniel Falk . In 1837 he received the title of councilor. Hand died in Jena on March 14, 1851.

Hand was a member of Hermann's Greek Society .

Works (selection)

  • (as ed.): Friedrich August Carus : Nachgelassene Werke. 7 volumes. Barth and Kummer, Leipzig 1808–1810.
  • (as ed.): Iohannis Frederici Gronovii in P. Papinii Statii Silvarum Libros V Diatribe. Accedunt Emerici Crucei Antidiatribe, Gronovii Elenchus Antidiatribes et Crucei Muscarium. Edidit Et Annotationes Adjecit Ferdinandus Handius . 2 volumes. Fleischer, Leipzig 1812.
  • Tursellinus, seu de particulis latinis commentarii . 4 volumes. Weidman, Leipzig 1829–45, (unfinished; reprint: Hakkert, Amsterdam 1969).
  • Latin style textbook . Crökersche Buchhandlung, Jena 1833, (3rd edition, edited by Heinrich Ludwig Schmitt. Costenoble, Jena 1880).
  • Aesthetics of Tonkunst . 2 volumes. Hochhausen, Jena 1837-41, (2nd improved edition. Eduard Eisenach, Leipzig, 1850; reprint: Hard Press, Lenox MA 1969).
  • The workhouse as the most excellent aid in the administration of the poor , Jena 1939.
  • Practical guide to Latin-style exercises . Cröker, Jena 1838, (2nd improved edition, ibid., 1850).

literature

  • Karl Ritter von Halm :  Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 499 f.
  • Gustav Queck : Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand after his life and work with excerpts from letters from Heyne, Carus, Passow, G. Hermann u. A. and the eulogy of Geh. Church council black . Döbereiner, Jena, 1852, ( online )
  • Günter Schmidt: The result of a trip. Ferdinand Hand in Petersburg. In: Weimar and the East: historical and cultural relations between the Thuringian region and Saint Petersburg. Red. Erhard Hexelschneider, Jena 2003, pp. 71–81.
  • Matthias Steinbach : economists, philanthropists, humanitarian. Professor Socialism in the Academic Province , Berlin 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Observationum criticarum in Catulli carmina Specimen .
  2. ^ Günter Schmidt: Income from a trip. Ferdinand Hand in Petersburg. In: Weimar and the East: historical and cultural relations between the Thuringian region and Saint Petersburg. Red. Erhard Hexelschneider, Jena 2003, pp. 71–81.
  3. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 14, 2015 .
  4. ^ Matthias Steinbach : Economists, Philanthropists, Humanitarian. Professor Socialism in the Academic Province , Berlin 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Hand, Ferdinand Gotthelf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Plauen
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1851
Place of death Jena