Ferdinand Master

Ferdinand Meister (born November 29, 1828 in Eisenach , † October 12, 1915 in Breslau ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher. He taught at grammar schools in Eisenach, Weimar, Liegnitz and from 1861 to 1899 at the Maria Magdalenen grammar school in Breslau.

life and work

Ferdinand Meister, the son of the pensioner Johann Friedrich Meister, attended high school in Eisenach and, after graduating from school, studied classical philology in Jena and Leipzig from 1846 to 1850 . From 1850 he taught at the private school run by Karl Volkmar Stoy . In 1853 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . In 1855 he went to the Eisenach grammar school as an assistant teacher. In 1857 he moved to Weimar, in 1858 as a civil inspector at the Knights' Academy in Liegnitz .

Meister achieved his position in life in 1861 at the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Breslau , where he was appointed a collaborator (at the same time as his friend Rudolf Peiper ). A year later he married Peiper's sister Theone (1842-1924). In 1868 Meister was appointed senior teacher, in 1883 he was given the title of professor. In 1899 he retired. After his death at the age of 86 he was buried in Eisenach.

In addition to his school service, Master found time for scientific work, which he dedicated in particular to the Latin authors Quintilian , Dares Phrygius and Dictys Cretensis . After text-critical and exegetical preparatory work, which he published in school programs and magazines, he published a critical edition of the Dictys in 1872 and one of the Dares in 1873. These editions were based on an intensive study of the known manuscripts and remained in use for a long time. Werner Eisenhut published a new edition of the dictys in 1958; a newer critical edition of Dares does not exist to this day.

In addition, Meister published a commentary on the 10th book of Quintilians Institutio oratoria in 1882 and a critical edition of the entire work from 1886–1887, for which he had collected material for almost 30 years. Master's text design and critical principles formed the basis for the later critical edition of Ludwig Radermacher (2 volumes, 1907–1935).

Fonts (selection)

• Quaestiones Quintilianeae . Liegnitz 1860 (school program)
• Quaestionum Quintilianearum pars secunda . Liegnitz 1865 (school program)
• About Dares of Phrygia, de excidio Troiae historia . Breslau 1871 (school program)
• Dictys Cretensis ephemeridos belli Troiani libri sex . Leipzig 1872
• Daretis Phrygii de excidio Troiae historia . Leipzig 1873. Reprint Leipzig 1991
• Collection of German poems for higher education institutions . Leipzig 1873
• The first 25 years of the Scientific Association in Wroclaw, 1852–1877 . Wroclaw 1877
• M. Fabii Quintiliani institutionis oratoriae liber decimus . Explained by Eduard Bonnell . 5th edition, obtained from Ferdinand Meister, Berlin 1882. New edition, Leipzig / Vienna 1920
• M. Fabi Quintiliani institutionis oratoriae libri duodecim . 2 volumes, Leipzig / Prague 1886–1887
• Scholarships and grants in Wroclaw. Compiled for the members of the Wroclaw District Association . Wroclaw 1889
• For the 50th anniversary of the Scientific Association in Breslau on November 29, 1902 . Wroclaw 1903
• Public monuments and memorials in Wroclaw . Breslau 1910th 2nd edition, Breslau 1913

literature

• Friedrich August Eckstein : Nomenclator philologorum . Leipzig 1871, p. 367
• Wilhelm Pökel : Philological writer's lexicon . Leipzig 1882. p. 172
• Festschrift for the 250th anniversary of the St. Maria Magdalena grammar school in Breslau on April 30, 1893 . Breslau 1893, pp. 3-43; 53
• Who is who? The German Who's Who . 4th edition (1909), p. 910
• German gender book . Volume 178 (1978), p. 103

Web links

Wikisource: Ferdinand Meister  - Sources and full texts