Friedrich August Grotefend

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Friedrich August Grotefend (born December 12, 1798 in Ilfeld , † February 28, 1836 in Göttingen ) was a German philologist .

Grotefend was a son of the general superintendent Johann Gregor Grotefend and Luise Meißner (1768-1836), a daughter of Karl Friedrich Meißner, the director of the Ilfeld pedagogy . As a member of an important north German family of scholars of the 19th century, Grotefend was a nephew of Georg Friedrich Grotefend , the decipherer of the cuneiform script .

Grotefend went to school in Clausthal and initially studied theology and philology in Göttingen . In 1820 he won the first prize of the theological task set by the faculty by comparing Platonic and Christian ethics. The school authorities became aware of him and made him a collaborator in 1821, after having worked as a private tutor for a year, and in 1826 the vice-principal at the Pedagogy in Ilfeld. From 1831 on he was director of the grammar school in Göttingen . Here he also received an extraordinary professorship at the Georg-August-Universität in 1835 , but he died on February 28, 1836, after having been in poor health for several years.

He was married to Luise Nöldeke, a daughter of Pastor Johann Christoph Nöldeke in Suderburg .

Publications

  • Commentatio in qua doctrina Platonis ethica cum Christiana comparatur. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1820 (digitized version) .
  • Detailed grammar of the Latin language. 2 vols. Hahn, Hanover 1829/30 (revised new edition by August Krüger 1842).
  • Latin school grammar. Hahn, Hanover 1833 (digitized version) .

literature

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Georg Meyer: Directory of teachers and students of the Ilfeld pedagogy from Easter 1800 to before Easter 1853. In: Annual report on the Royal Monastery School in Ilfeld, from Easter 1905 to Easter 1906. Göttingen 1906, pp. 3–71, here p. 6 .
  2. ↑ Hans-Joachim Heerde: The audience of physics. Lichtenberg's listener. Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, p. 421 .
  3. ^ Hermann Grotefend :  Grotefend, August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 762 f.
  4. ↑ Georg Heinrich Oesterley : Attempt of an academic scholarly history from the Georg Augustus University in Göttingen. Fourth part. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1838, p. 301 f. (with list of publications p. 302, note 1).
  5. ^ Hartmut Bobzin :  Nöldeke, Theodor Eduard Bernhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 311 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Grotefend, Friedrich August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Ilfeld
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1836
Place of death Goettingen