Friedrich Adolf Heinichen

Friedrich Adolf Heinichen (born September 2, 1805 in Pegau , † September 26, 1877 in Leipzig ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher. His name is linked to a school dictionary that was widely used in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Life

Friedrich Adolf Heinichen attended the Princely School Grimma from 1817 and later the grammar school in Altenburg . From 1823 he studied Protestant theology and philology at the University of Leipzig . As a full member of the historical-theological society, he dealt intensively with the writings of the church fathers and in particular of Eusebius of Caesarea , whose church history he published as a student from 1827-1828. In 1829 Heinichen completed his studies with a master's degree and a doctorate to become Dr. phil. from.

In 1831 Heinichen was appointed rector of the Lyceum in Chemnitz and headed it until it was dissolved in 1835. He then moved to the Annaberg grammar school as prorector and stayed there for eight years, until this institution was also closed in 1843. Heinichen became prorector and full professor at the secondary school in Zwickau . There he temporarily administered the rectorate in 1847 and 1848–1849. In 1856 Heinichen received the title of professor, in 1858 he became a librarian at the grammar school in addition to his teaching post. At Easter 1862 he retired and moved to Leipzig, where he lived as a private scholar until his death.

Heinichen was scientifically active throughout his career. He published critical editions of various writings by Eusebius of Caesarea, with the revision of which he was still busy 1868-1870; however, these editions soon became obsolete due to new knowledge about the transmission of these works. Heinichen's work on Latin stylistics and lexicons was more important: during his time in Annaberg and Zwickau he wrote textbooks for style exercises at grammar schools as well as a large-scale Latin-German school dictionary, which he completed during his time in Leipzig and in two parts (Latin-German and German -Latin) published 1864–1866. He gradually revised and corrected this work and brought out two further editions of each of the two parts until the end of his life. After his death, other philologists took over the revision of his dictionary, including Anton August Draeger and Carl Wagener .

In the 20th century, Heinichen's dictionary was mainly used in a shortened form, as a pocket dictionary (“Der Taschen-Heinichen”). The revision was done by several philologists on behalf of the publisher, including the Latinist Theodor Bögel , who published the fifth (1965) and sixth (1971) editions of “Taschen-Heinichen” alone.

Fonts (selection)

• De Alogis Theodotianis atque Artemonitis . Leipzig 1829
• Exercises in the Latin style . Leipzig 1839; 2nd edition 1852
• Textbook of the theory of the Latin style. Written for school and private use and accompanied by the necessary anti-barbaric remarks . Leipzig 1842
  • For school and private use with systematically selected anti-barbaric remarks , 2nd definitely increased and improved edition 1848
• Exercises in translating from German and Latin into Greek. For upper high school classes . Leipzig 1845

Text output

• Eusebii Pamphili historiae libri X ecclesiasticae . 3 volumes + supplement, Leipzig 1827–1840
• Eusebii Pamphili de vita Constantini libri IV. Et panegyricus atque Constantini ad sanctorum coetum oratio . Leipzig 1830
• Eusebii Pamphili praeparationis evangelicae libri XV . 2 volumes, Leipzig 1842–1843
• Eusebii Pamphili scripta historica . 3 volumes, Leipzig 1868–1870

Lexicons

• Latin-German school dictionary on the prose writers Cicero, Caesar, Sallust, Cornel, Livius, Curtius, Pliny the Elder. J. (letters), Quintilian (10th book), Tacitus, Justin, Aurelius Victor, Eutrop, and on the poets Plautus, Terenz, Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Tibullus, Properz, Ovid and Phaedrus. Leipzig 1864
  • Latin-German and German-Latin school dictionary. First part: Latin-German school dictionary = Latin-German school dictionary on the prose writers Cicero, Caesar, Sallust, Nepos, Livius, Curtius, Pliny the Elder. J. (letters), Quintilian (10th book), Tacitus, Suetonius, Justin, Aurelius Victor, Eutrop, and on the poets Plautus, Terenz, Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Tibullus, Properz, Ovid and Phaedrus. 2nd, revised and thoroughly improved as well as greatly increased edition, Leipzig 1870
  • 3rd revised and often improved and enlarged edition 1875
• Latin-German and German-Latin school dictionary. Second part: German-Latin school dictionary = German-Latin school dictionary with synonymic and stylistic, especially anti-barbaristic comments . Leipzig 1866
  • 2nd, revised and thoroughly improved and greatly increased edition 1872
  • 3rd, revised and many times improved and enlarged edition 1877

literature

• Emil Herzog: History of the Zwickau High School . Zwickau 1869, p. 104
• Friedrich August Eckstein : Nomenclator philologorum . Leipzig 1871, p. 235
• New yearbooks for philology and education . Volume 116 (1877), p. 480
• Wilhelm Pökel : Philological writer's lexicon . Leipzig 1882, p. 114

Web links

Wikisource: Friedrich Adolf Heinichen  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by Friedrich Adolf Heinichen in the catalog of the German National Library