Franz Umpfenbach

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Franz Umpfenbach (actually: Franz Justus Leopold Umpfenbach ; * July 13, 1835 in Gießen , † June 28, 1885 in Heppenheim ) was a German classical philologist.

Life

The son of the mathematician Hermann Umpfenbach (1798–1862) and his wife Emilie, daughter of the chief magistrate and judicial councilor in Heidenheim Klotz, initially attended a private school and from 1845 to 1853 the grammar school in Gießen. As a student of philosophy, he moved to the University of Giessen in the same year , where he was a student of Friedrich Gotthilf Osann (1794-1858). At Easter 1854 Umpfenbach moved to the University of Göttingen , where he was recommended to Karl Friedrich Hermann . In the following year, he attended lectures with Friedrich Ritschl and Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker at the University of Bonn and with August Boeckh at the University of Berlin .

Returning to Giessen, Umpfenbach passed his teaching examination for grammar schools and received his doctorate in philosophy on March 30, 1857 . After working at the Giessen high school, he completed his habilitation on August 22, 1860 as a private lecturer in classical philology at the Giessen University. During that time he was engaged in the Roman comedy of Plautus . In 1863 he went to Italy in Rome Studies at the Vatican Library on Terence operate.

In 1865 Umpfenbach returned to Germany, where he worked as a private lecturer at the University of Munich and completed his most important work, a critical Terence edition, which enables a more precise knowledge of the handwritten readings. Since his financial means were exhausted by the issue, he went to Frankfurt am Main as a private teacher in 1870 . In 1873 he received a position as a high school teacher in Mainz , where he fell ill with a hearing disease. This got worse and worse, so that in 1884 he was admitted to the Grand Ducal State Insane Asylum in Heppenheim. There he died.

Fonts (selection)

  • Meletemata Plautina. Giessen 1860
  • The Bembinic Scholia of Terence. Hermes II, p. 337-402
  • P. Terenti comoediae. Berlin 1870

literature

  • Iwan Müller: Franz Umpfenbach In: Annual report on the progress of classical ancient studies. Verlag S. Calvary & Co, Berlin, 1888, Vol. 49, ( Online )
  • Hermann Haupt, Georg Lehnert: Chronicle of the University of Giessen, 1607–1907. Verlag Alfred Tölpelmann, Gießen, 1907, p. 97

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personal data
SURNAME Umpfenbach, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Umpfenbach, Franz Justus Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH to water
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1885
Place of death Heppenheim