Friedrich August Wilhelm Spohn
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Friedrich August Wilhelm Spohn (born May 16, 1792 in Dortmund , † January 17, 1824 in Leipzig ) was a German classical philologist .
Life
Spohn was born on May 16, 1792 as the son of the theologian Gottlieb Lebrecht Spohn and his wife Christiane Rosine Wilhelmine, nee. Born Netto in Dortmund. His father accepted a professorship at the University of Wittenberg in 1794 , but died shortly after the move. Friedrich August Wilhelm Spohn began studying philology in 1804 in Schulpforte and moved to Wittenberg in 1810 . Here he achieved in 1813 with his treatise De agro Troiano the master's title. In August 1813 he moved to Schmiedeberg with his mother . In August 1815 he went to Leipzig , where he joined in September habilitated . At the University of Leipzig he held numerous lectures and in 1817 was initially an associate professor of philosophy and in 1819, as the successor to Christian Daniel Beck, a full professor of Greek and Latin . For February 1821, Spohn was elected as the state of the university for the Saxon state parliament.
In addition to his work as an editor of works by ancient authors, he also dealt with the deciphering of the Egyptian hieroglyphs . However, these attempts were unsuccessful.
After his early death in 1824, Spohn was buried in the old Johannisfriedhof in Leipzig. A column donated by his mother was erected above his grave, which Spohn's pupil Gustav Seyffarth designed based on Egyptian models and had a Greek and (pseudo) Egyptian inscription added.
Works
author
- De agro Troiano (1814)
- De extrema parte Odysseae (1816)
- De Tibullo (1819)
- Lectiones Theocriteae (1822)
- De lingua et literis veterum Aegyptiorum (1825)
editor
- Isocrates : Panegyricus (1817)
- Nikephoros Blemmida (1818)
- Hesiod : Opera et dies (1819)
literature
- Elke Blumenthal : A Leipzig grave monument in the Egyptian style and the beginnings of Egyptology in Germany. (= Small writings of the Egyptian Museum of the University of Leipzig. Volume 4). Leipzig 1999.
- Carl Gustav Adolf Siegfried : Spohn, Friedrich August Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 237 f.
- Peter Uhrbach: A memory of Friedrich August Wilhelm Spohn. In: aMun. Magazine for the Friends of Egyptian Museums and Collections. Issue 55, 2017, pp. 69–72.
- Joke . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 16 . Altenburg 1863, p. 580 ( zeno.org ).
- Friedrich August Wilhelm Spohn . In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 2nd year, 1st issue. Ilmenau 1826. pp. 128-161.
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich August Wilhelm Spohn in the catalog of the German National Library
- Overview of the lectures of Friedrich August Wilhelm Spohn at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1815 to winter semester 1823)
First chair (from 1985 Greek studies ): Johann Friedrich Christ (1739–1756) | Johann August Ernesti (1756–1770) | August Wilhelm Ernesti (1770–1801) | Gottfried Hermann (1803–1848) | Reinhold Klotz (1849–1870) | Ludwig Lange (1871–1885) | Kurt Wachsmuth (1886–1905) | Erich Bethe (1906–1931) | Jürgen Werner (1985–1996) | Kurt Sier (since 1996)
Second chair (since 1974 Latin studies ): Friedrich Wolfgang Reiz (1782–1785) | Christian Daniel Beck (1785-1819) | Friedrich August Wilhelm Spohn (1819–1824) | Christian Daniel Beck (1825-1832) | Anton Westermann (1834–1865) | Friedrich Ritschl (1865–1876) | Otto Ribbeck (1877–1898) | Friedrich Marx (1899–1906) | Richard Heinze (1906–1929) | Friedrich Klingner (1930–1947) | Franz Dornseiff (1948–1960) | Walter Hofmann (1974–1990) | Ekkehard Stark (1992-2001) | Marcus Deufert (since 2003)
Third chair: Otto Jahn (1847–1850) | Gregor Wilhelm Nitzsch (1852–1861) | Georg Curtius (1862-1885) | Erwin Rohde (1886)
Fourth chair: Justus Hermann Lipsius (1877–1914) | Bruno Keil (1914–1916) | Alfred Körte (1917–1934) | Wolfgang Schadewaldt (1934–1941) | Karl Reinhardt (1942–1946)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spohn, Friedrich August Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1792 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dortmund |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 17, 1824 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |