Franz Poland

Franz Poland

Franz Poland (born August 25, 1857 in Pirna , † March 31, 1945 in Dresden ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher.

Life

Franz Poland was the son of the lawyer Franz Poland (1813–1901), who initially worked as a lawyer in Pirna and later as a judge in Dresden. The son Franz Poland attended the Catholic Progymnasium and then from 1872 the Kreuzschule in Dresden , which was then under the direction of Friedrich Hultsch . From 1877 to 1882 Poland studied Classical Philology, German Studies , Ancient History and Art History at the University of Leipzig . He completed his studies in 1882 with a doctorate as Dr. phil. and the first state examination, then did military service with the 108th Saxon artillery regiment and began his probationary year at the Kreuzschule in Dresden in 1883 as a candidate. In the following year he was transferred to the newly founded Wettiner Gymnasium as a senior teacher , where he spent his entire professional career. In 1903 he was appointed grammar school professor, elected vice rector in 1908, and in 1910 as successor to the late rector Otto Meltzer . As headmaster, Poland organized the conversion of the institution from a humanistic grammar school into a reform school based on the Frankfurt model from 1911 . At the First World War Poland took part from November 1914 to the end of the 1915th As a company leader (most recently a captain) he served at the non-commissioned officers' school in Marienberg, and later with a replacement battalion in Pirna. During his service time he was appointed by the vice-principal Dr. Karl Müller represented. On March 23, 1923, Poland retired. From January 1st to Easter 1928 he represented the rector Ernst Boehm , who had moved to Leipzig University as head of the educational seminar.

In addition to school service and retired, Poland engaged in scientific studies. His research focus was the Greek club system. In addition, he also had the communication of the whole of antiquity in mind. Together with other experts ( Fritz Baumgarten , Ernst Reisinger , Richard Wagner ) he wrote writings on The Hellenic Culture and The Hellenistic-Roman Culture , which were finally summarized under the title The ancient culture in their main features . From 1917 until his death, Poland published the Philological Weekly , an important review organ of classical studies in Germany. In addition to these journalistic activities, it was especially Poland's association work that made him a propagator of antiquity. He was chairman of the grammar school association , member of the board of the Saxon Philologists Association and founder and head of the Dresden group of the German Classical Philology Association . Poland also founded the Dresden Antiquities Society, whose second department he headed into old age and in which he gave numerous lectures.

Franz Poland was married to Emma Marie Anna Stock (1863–1936) from 1887. The couple had two sons, the high school teacher Franz Theodor Poland (1889-1947) and Wolfgang Poland (1897-1916), who fought at the front in World War I.

Fonts (selection)

• De legationibus Graecorum publicis . Leipzig 1885 (dissertation)
• De collegiis artificum Dionysiacorum . Dresden 1895
• Reuchlin's Germanization of Demosthenes' first olynthian speech . Berlin 1899
• The Hellenic culture . Leipzig 1905. Second edition, Leipzig 1908. Third edition, Leipzig 1913
• History of the Greek Association . Leipzig 1909. Reprint Leipzig 1967
• The Hellenistic-Roman culture . Leipzig 1913. Second edition, Leipzig 1915
• The main features of ancient culture . Leipzig 1922. Second edition, Leipzig 1925

literature

• Edwin Müller: Franz Poland. On his 70th birthday on August 25, 1927 . Dresden 1927 (with curriculum vitae and picture)
• Franz Zimmermann : Franz Poland on his seventy-fifth birthday . Leipzig 1932 (with picture)
• Wettin high school in Dresden 1879–1929. Festschrift for the jubilation in 1929; also annual report for the period from Michaelis 1927 to Easter 1929 . Dresden 1929
• Franz Theodor Poland: Ancestral tribes of the Poland / Breiten family . Dresden 1939

Web links

Wikisource: Franz Poland  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

1. ^ Communication from the Dresden City Archives from June 4, 2010.