Friedrich Ellendt

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Friedrich Ellendt (full name Friedrich Theodor Ellendt , born January 6, 1796 in Kolberg , † May 11, 1855 in Eisleben ) was a German classical philologist and grammar school director.

Life

Friedrich Ellendt was the son of a merchant who moved to Königsberg in 1807 during the Napoleonic Wars . From 1811 the father worked as deputy principal in Memel . Friedrich Ellendt attended the old town high school in Königsberg and studied at the university there first Protestant theology , later classical philology. During his studies he became a member of the old Königsberg fraternity in 1817 . His academic teachers included the philologist Christian August Lobeck , the philosopher Johann Friedrich Herbart and the historian Karl Dietrich Hüllmann . In 1819 Ellendt completed his studies with a doctorate to become Dr. phil. and with the teaching exam. In the same year he was employed as a teacher at the Altstädtisches Gymnasium and completed his habilitation at the University of Königsberg, where he has since given lectures in addition to teaching. As early as 1821 he was promoted to the 7th senior teacher position at the grammar school. On April 28, 1825, the University of Königsberg appointed him extraordinary professor of "ancient literature".

Ellendt's health suffered from his uninterrupted scientific and educational work. In 1835 the school authorities granted him several months' leave of absence in Italy, which Ellendt used for scientific work in the libraries of Venice , Florence and Rome . In the same year Ellendt received a call to the Royal High School in Eisleben , whose director Karl Wilhelm Siebdrat had died in 1834. Ellendt succeeded him and headed the grammar school until his death in 1855.

At the beginning of his 20-year rectorate, Ellendt carried out far-reaching reforms to improve teaching: he drafted a general curriculum for all classes and subjects in teaching, which was implemented from 1835 to 1837 and officially approved by the ministry on October 24, 1837; In addition, he determined the frequency of written work in the subjects of Latin, Greek, German, French and mathematics, stipulated a reading canon and the textbooks to be used, expanded the school library , increased the number of hours for Latin lessons and enforced the principle that every subject was only represented by a specific teacher. In 1846 Ellendt published an extensive history of the Königliches Gymnasium zu Eisleben , which sold so well that Ellendt set up a foundation for talented high school students in 1847, whose capital consisted of the income from the sale of books. In 1846 Ellendt received the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class. He died on May 11, 1855 at the age of 59.

Fonts (selection)

  • De prologis tragoediae Graecae dissertatio . Königsberg 1819 (dissertation)
  • Ciceronis brutus. Recensuit, emendavit, interpretatus est Ms. Ellendt . Königsberg 1825. 2nd edition 1844
  • Latin reader for the lower classes . Königsberg 1826. 12th edition 1852. 18th edition, edited by Moritz Seyffert, Berlin 1875
  • Textbook of history for the upper classes of high schools . Königsberg 1827. 4th edition 1853
  • De formis enuntiatorum conditionalium linguae Latinae commentatio . Koenigsberg 1827
  • De tragicis Graecis inprimis de Euripide ex ipsorum aetate et temporibus iudicandis aequaliumsque iudicio commentatio . Koenigsberg 1827
  • Lexicon Sophocleum . Two volumes, Königsberg 1835
    • 2nd edition by Hermann Genthe , Berlin 1872. Reprints Hildesheim 1958, 1965
  • Latin grammar for the lower grades of high schools . Königsberg 1835. 17th edition, edited by Moritz Seyffert, Berlin 1872. 61st edition 1917
  • M. Tullii Ciceronis De oratore libri tres. Recensuit, emendavit, interpretatus est Ms. Ellendt . Koenigsberg 1840
  • About the religious and moral consciousness of philologists and school men, especially Prussia . Eisleben 1843
  • History of the Royal High School in Eisleben . Eisleben 1846
  • About the genesis of the revolution and its course in the world . Eisleben 1851
  • De cognomine et agnomine Romano . Koenigsberg 1853

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Friedrich Ellendt  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oeffentlicher Anzeiger des Official Gazette of the Royal. Prussian government in Königsberg 1821 . No. 11, March 7, 1821, p. 103; News from the town high school from Michaelis 1820 to Easter 1821 . Koenigsberg 1821.
  2. ^ Fatherland Archives for Science, Art, Industry and Agriculture, or Preuss. Provincial Leaves . Volume 20 (1838), p. 349.
personal data
SURNAME Ellendt, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ellendt, Friedrich Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and grammar school director
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolberg
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1855
Place of death Eisleben