Franz Joseph Engel

Franz Joseph Engel (born May 4, 1867 in Heigenbrücken im Spessart , † April 18, 1922 in Aschaffenburg ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher . He made a particular contribution to the Roman remains of Passau .

Engel studied Classical Philology at the University of Munich . On January 18, 1898 he received his doctorate there . From 1894 to 1918 Engel was a grammar school teacher or grammar school professor at the humanistic grammar school in Passau. In 1918 he became vice principal at the grammar school in Freising , in 1920 he worked again in Passau and in 1921 Engel became grammar school director in Aschaffenburg .

From 1904 to 1911 he carried out excavations in Passau- Innstadt and discovered the remains of the Boiodurum Roman fort .

Fonts (selection)

• On the rights of those pleading for protection from Homer. Passau 1899 (= dissertation) digitized .
• Ethnographic information on Homeric war and protégé law. 3 volumes. Passau 1904-06
• Memories and perspectives on Roman research in Passau. In: Donauzeitung Passau , Volume 118, Nos. 143 and 144 from 24./25. May 1908
• Passau, Municipal Museum. In: Reports of the Roman-Germanic Commission 7, 1912, p. 70.
• Pan (n) a conmunis. In: Römisch-Germanisches Korrespondenzblatt 7, 1914, pp. 58–59.

literature

• Franz Mader : Tausend Passauer - Biographical Lexicon on Passau's city history . 1st edition. Neue-Presse-Verlags-GmbH, Passau 1995, ISBN 3-924484-98-8 , p. 57 (Co-editor: City Archives Passau).