Franz Drexl

Franz Xaver Drexl (Latin Franciscus Drexl ; born November 25, 1885 in Gammelsdorf , † February 19, 1951 in Edenkoben ) was a German Byzantine and grammar school teacher.

family

Franz Drexl was the second born of a total of eleven children of the teacher Eduard Drexl (1856-1930) and his wife Franziska, née Schneider (1863-1945), although his older brother Eduard, born in December 1884, had died after 16 days. His brothers Urban (1887–1972), Eduard (1888–1965) and Andreas (1890–1976) also became teachers. Urban Drexl published two textbooks. His first marriage was to Hedwig Gschwendner (1890–1944). The marriage resulted in a son and two daughters. After the death of his first wife, he married the pharmacist's daughter and librarian Agnes Seiter (1901–1951) on October 3, 1944 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . He died at the age of only 65 after a long period of lung and heart disease.

life and work

Franz Drexl attended elementary school in Kammerberg , the Latin school in Scheyern Abbey and the humanistic grammar school in Freising . He studied Classical and Middle and Modern Greek Philology at the University of Munich . With the dissertation Achmet's dream book . Introduction and rehearsal of a critical text ( Oneirocriticon Achmetis ) he received his doctorate in 1909 under Karl Krumbacher . Then he passed the state examination for the higher teaching post and practiced in 1909/10 at the old grammar school in Regensburg . In 1910/11 he was tutor to the Baron von Frankenstein in Vilshofen , in 1911/12 he was prefect at the St. Emmeram study center in Regensburg, and from 1912 to 1917 he was a realteacher at the girls' college of the English girls in Regensburg. In January 1918 he became a high school teacher at the Ludwigsgymnasium in Munich , from 1926 he taught at the Wittelsbacher Gymnasium in Munich, of which he became director on October 1, 1948. From 1923 to 1933 he also had a teaching position for Greek style exercises at the University of Munich.

In the field of Byzantine studies, he mainly deals with the Greek dream books and the work of Michael Psellos . He has published numerous articles and reviews in specialist journals.

Especially during his time in Regensburg, when he had no scientific library at his disposal, he published numerous works for school lessons and young people at Verlag Habbel from 1913 to 1923 . His first work was the Wars of Liberation . As a result he gave u. a. Volumes with works by Richard Wagner , Emanuel Geibel , Jean Paul , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Friedrich von Schiller , Gottfried von Strasbourg , Wilhelm Hauff and Clemens Brentano .

In 1923 he received the Zographospreis of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , in 1942 the silver medal Bene merenti of the Bavarian Academy and in 1942 he became a corresponding member of the Society for Byzantine Studies in Athens .

Fonts (selection)

scientific publications

• Achmet's dream book. Introduction and sample of a critical text (dissertation), FP Datterer, Freising 1909.
• The dream book of the patriarch Nikephorus . In: Albert Michael Koeniger (Ed.): Festgabe A. Ehrhard. Contributions to the history of Christian antiquity and Byzantine literature . Schroeder, Bonn 1922, pp. 94-118.
• The dream book of the Patriarch Germanos . In: Λαογραφία 7, 1923, pp. 428-448. - Review by Otto Weinreich , Philologische Wochenschrift 46, 1926, pp. 455–456, reprint in: Ders., Selected writings. Vol. 2. Grüner, Amsterdam 1973, ISBN 90-272-7264-6 , pp. 204–205 ( limited preview in Google book search).
• The Berlin Achmeth handwriting . In: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 24, 1924, pp. 307-312.
• Achmetis Oneirocriticon . Teubner, Leipzig 1925.
• The dream book of Codex Parisinus Graecus 2511 . In: Λαογραφία 8, 1925, pp. 347-375. - Review by Otto Weinreich, Philologische Wochenschrift 46, 1926, pp. 455–456, reprint in: Ders., Selected writings. Vol. 2. Grüner, Amsterdam 1973, ISBN 90-272-7264-6 , pp. 204–205 ( limited preview in Google book search).
• The dream book of the prophet Daniel according to the Codex Vaticanus Palatinus 319 . In: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 26, 1926, pp. 290-314.
• Ten years of Greek patristicism (1916–1925)
  • Part I: Centuries II and III AD In: Annual report on the progress of classical antiquity 220, 1929, pp. 131–163.
  • Part II: The centuries IV and V AD In: Annual report on the progress of classical antiquity 57/230, 1931, pp. 163-272.
• Michaelis Pselli scripta minora. Magnam partem adhuc inedita . Ed. recognovitque Eduardus Kurtz. Ex schedis eius relictis in lucem emisit Franciscus Drexl. 2 volumes Vita e pensiero, Milan 1936–1941.

Publications for the school

• Freedom and fatherland! Brief history of the wars of liberation 1813–1815. Habbel, Regensburg 1913.
• The Wars of Liberation 1813–15 / Told to the German people. Habbel, Regensburg 1913 (2nd revised edition).
• Music dramas / Richard Wagner (2 volumes). Habbel, Regensburg 1914.
• Dramas / Emanuel Geibel . Habbel, Regensburg 1915.
• Poems / Emanuel Geibel . Habbel, Regensburg 1915.
• The Nibelungenlied in Simrock's translation with introduction and notes . Habbel, Regensburg 1916.
• The Quintus Fixlein lives up to our times: In 15 note boxes / Jean Paul . Habbel, Regensburg 1916.
• The Flight to Egypt and other short stories from Wilhelm Meister / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . Habbel, Regensburg 1916.
• Life of the cheerful schoolmaster Maria Wuz in Auenthal A kind of idyll / Jean Paul . Habbel, Regensburg 1916.
• Conversations of German emigrants / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . Habbel, Regensburg 1916.
• The good women. Novella / by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. With a note . Habbel, Regensburg 1917.
• Game of fate and other stories / by Friedrich von Schiller. With a note . Habbel, Regensburg 1917.
• Tristan and Isolde / by Gottfried von Strasbourg. A selection from the transmission by H. Kurtz with connecting text and a note . Habbel, Regensburg 1917.
• Fairy tales for young people / by Wilhelm Hauff (2 volumes). Habbel, Regensburg 1920.
• The fairy tale of Gockel and Hinkel / Clemens Brentano. Edited for the youth . Habbel, Regensburg 1921.
• The fairy tale of the marmot and [the fairy tale] of the Myrtenfräulein / Clemens Brentano. Edited for the youth . Habbel, Regensburg 1923.
• The fairy tale of the schoolmaster Klopsstock and his five sons / Clemens Brentano. Edited for the youth . Habbel, Regensburg 1923.

literature

• Gustav Soyter: Franz Drexl . In: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 45, 1952, pp. 269–270 (with list of publications).

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Drexl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Drexl, Franz .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franz Xaver Drexl , family tree of the Ihrler family.