Friedrich Crusius

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Friedrich Crusius (full name Friedrich Alfred Ernst Alexis Crusius , born August 15, 1897 in Tübingen , † March 8, 1941 in Linz ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher.

Life

Crusius was the third child and the second son of the classical philologist and university professor Otto Crusius (1857-1918) and his wife Elisabeth Dorothea Franziska, born von Bihl (1858-1939). He grew up with his older siblings Elisabeth (1886–1970) and Otto Eduard (1892–1965) in Tübingen, Heidelberg (1898–1903) and Munich (from 1903), where his father was a professor of Greek philology. Friedrich Crusius attended the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich . After graduating from school in 1915 and participating in the First World War , he studied classical philology like his father and was awarded a doctorate in early 1926. phil. PhD . He worked as a private tutor in Diursholm / Sweden and Berlin and from 1933 as a high school teacher in Ingolstadt . With his wife, Adelheid Luise Thea, geb. Stifler (1895–1964), he had two children.

On April 1, 1936, Crusius was admitted to the Eglfing-Haar sanatorium and nursing home due to a mental illness . He stayed there for several years , interrupted by a stay in Schwabing Hospital (October 1937–6 October 1938). On October 24, 1940, he was transferred in a collective transport to the Niedernhart Gau sanatorium and nursing home in Linz , and on the same day sent to the Hartheim Nazi killing center . On October 26, 1940, he was transferred back to Niedernhart and died there on March 8, 1941 in Dr. Rudolf Lonauer , who was also the head of the Hartheim killing center . All circumstances suggest that he was murdered. His attending doctor was Rudolf Lonauer.

Crusius gained greater fame through his book Römische Metrik: An Introduction , the first edition of which was published in 1929 by the Munich publisher M. Hueber. After his death, his Munich colleague Hans Rubenbauer revised the book and published a second edition in 1955. By 1967 the book had another six editions, the last, 8th edition, was reprinted six times by 2006.

Crusius is a descendant of Balthasar Crusius .

In 2018 a stele in his memory was unveiled in Mandlstrasse 21 in Munich .

Fonts (selection)

  • The response in the Plautinian Cantica . Leipzig 1929 ( Philologus . Supplement 21.1)
  • Roman metric. An introduction . Munich 1929. 2nd edition, revised by Hans Rubenbauer, 1955. 8th edition 1967. Numerous reprints

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information from the Hartheim documentation center of the Upper Austrian Provincial Archives of October 7, 2009.
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ^ Judith Leister: Munich sets signs of remembrance , in: NZZ, August 4, 2018, p. 22
personal data
SURNAME Crusius, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crusius, Friedrich Alfred Ernst Alexis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1941
Place of death Linz