Friedrich Karl Rumpf

This article deals with the literary scholar Friedrich Karl Rumpf. For the draftsman and japanologist see Friedrich Karl Georg Rumpf .

Friedrich Karl Rumpf (born September 16, 1772 in Oberroßbach (Haiger) , † October 7, 1824 in Gießen ) was a German literary scholar, rhetorician, Protestant theologian and classical philologist.

ancestors

The Rumpf family has been Protestant since the Reformation. The ancestors include a number of pastors in Upper Hesse, especially in the Butzbach area, where the family tree can be traced back to 1480.

Life

Friedrich Karl Rumpf was the youngest son of the second pastor in Oberroßbach Johann Georg Friedrich Rumpf (1729–1774) and his wife Susanne Marie, a daughter of Pastor Seiler in Schwalheim near Friedberg. The Bamberg pharmacist and professor of chemistry Ernst Friedrich Felix Rumpf was an older brother. The chemist and mineralogist Ludwig Rumpf was his nephew. Friedrich Karl Rumpf had attended the boys' school in his hometown until he was fourteen. In 1786 he became a student at the municipal high school in Frankfurt am Main, where his eldest brother Ludwig Daniel Philipp Rumpf (born November 18, 1762), who worked there as an upholsterer, accepted and supported him. During that time, Christian Julius Wilhelm Mosche in particular had a great influence on him, who made him familiar with the Greek and Roman classics. In 1789 he worked as a private teacher, where he created a financial basis to start studying theology at the University of Tübingen at the age of twenty-two in 1794 .

In Tübingen he had attended the lectures by Gottlob Christian Storr , Christian Friedrich Schnurrer , Johann Friedrich Flatt , Johann Friedrich Gaab , Christian Friedrich Rösler and Jakob Friedrich Abel . In 1796 he moved to the University of Giessen , where he heard lectures by Johann Christoph Schulz (1747-1806), Georg Wilhelm Ludwig Bechtold (1732-1805), Johann Wilhelm Friedrich Hezel , and Karl Christian Palmer (1759-1838). Presumably financial circumstances compelled him to accept a position as private tutor in Frankfurt am Main in 1797.

Since a teaching position had become vacant in Giessen, Rumpf moved there the following year and initially occupied the fourth teaching position. Within five years he rose to his first teaching position, received his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Giessen on August 11, 1800 , became custodian at the university library in 1803, held lectures as a private lecturer at the theological faculty of the Giessen University from 1805 and was on July 9, 1806 associate professor of theology there. His theological lectures extended to dogmatics, the Hebrew language, the Psalms of Job as well as to the Pauline and Catholic letters.

In 1809 he gave lectures on pieces by Aeschylus and Sophocles , on Theocrit's idylls , on Demosthenes ' speeches, on works by Xenophon and Dionysius of Halicarnassus , on the satires and letters of Horace , Virgil's eclogues , Seneca's letters, on Tacitus , on Quintilian and the Roman antiquities. However, his studies soon took on a different direction, since on January 12, 1809, he was given the full professorship of rhetoric and poetry at the philosophical faculty. Following his request, he became the second teacher at the philosophical seminary in March 1812, devoting himself more and more to the literature of the Greek and Roman classics in his research.

The effects of the war of liberation did not pass him by either. Many students took part in this, so that Hull lost income. One tried to compensate for the tendency. In 1815 he became Ephorus of the scholarship holders, became second Pedagogical Institute in 1818 because of a poaching from Frankfurt am Main and received an increase in salary. On February 24, 1821 he rose in this capacity to the first Pedagogical Arch. Rumpf also took part in the organizational tasks of the Giessen University. He was dean of the philosophical faculty and rector of the alma mater in 1818/19. As head of the philological seminar, he particularly supported the training in the field of the Latin language. Returning from a vacation trip, he was sick with blood and lung stroke, whereupon he lost consciousness and died.

family

From his marriage on July 11, 1805, to Christine Margarethe Fresenius (* June 8, 1782 in Frankfurt; † April 23, 1873), the daughter of the Consistorial Council, pastor and rector of the orphanage Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm Fresenius in Bad Homburg in front of the height and his wife Dorothea Sophia Fischer, the daughter of the Frankfurt trader Karl Fischer, had eight children. He lost three sons and a daughter to an early death. From the children we know:

• Son Remigus Ernst Friedrich Karl Rumpf (born September 30, 1811 in Gießen; † January 6, 1893 in Frankfurt am Main) Dr. jur., legal counsel in Frankfurt / M.
• Son Jakob Heinrich Samuel Rumpf (born December 26, 1813 in Gießen; † January 22, 1889 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German educator and philologist
• Son Wilhelm Heinrich Christian Rumpf (born July 2, 1822 in Gießen; † June 23, 1885 in Gießen) philologist and librarian ( curator of the university library )
• Daughter Marie Luise Gertrud Charlotte Rumpf (born August 27, 1819 in Gießen, † April 23, 1873 in Wiesbaden) married. September 21, 1845 with the secret councilor and chemist Carl Remigius Fresenius in Wiesbaden .

Friedrich Karl Rumpf had been a member of the Frankfurt Freemason Lodge Zur Einigkeit since 1810 , as was his brother Ludwig Daniel Philipp Rumpf (admitted 1802) and his son, the Frankfurt architect Friedrich Rumpf , who was admitted in 1815.

Works (selection)

Rumpf, who was mainly involved in practical university work, appeared very little as an author. He has published scientific treatises here and there in specialist journals. However, without being particularly prominent. The following are known of his writings:

• Contribution to answering the question: how can self-thinking be promoted in the teaching of foreign languages. Giessen 1798
• De Psalmi CXXXIX titulo et argumento. Pouring 1800
• Treatise, prompted by a funeral ceremony in the Frankfurt a. M. (On the ideas of the ancients about death). Frankfurt 1803
• A few remarks on the examination of the intellectual and moral faculties of youth which can take place in public schools. Giessen 1803
• Translation of the Prophet Rahum. 1808
• Overview of the current establishment of the pedagogy in Giessen. Giessen 1809
• Observationes in Ciceronis orationum per Caecina loca quaedam difficiliora. Giessen 1810
• Observationum in Ciceronis per L. Corn. Balbo orationum spicilegium. Giessen 1814
• De Charidemo Orita. Giessen 1815
• The life of Agricola by Caj. Cornel. Tacitus. Giessen 1821

literature

• Friedrich August Schmidt: New necrology of the Germans. Verlag Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Ilmenau, 1826, vol. 2, part 2, p. 1197 ( online )
• Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder: Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer story. Verlag Bayerhoffersche Schriften, Marburg, 1819, 17th vol. P. 446 ( online )
• Hermann Haupt, Georg Lehnert: Chronicle of the University of Giessen, 1607–1907. Alfred Tölpelmann publishing house, Giessen, 1907,
• Georg Christoph Hamberger, Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland, or lexicon of the now living German writers. Verlag Meyerische Hofbuchhandlung, Lemgo, 1823, 19th vol., P. 479, ( online )
• Life and ancestors of Fritz Rumpf

Web links

• Rumpf, Friedrich Karl. Hessian biography. (As of February 3, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rector's speeches in the 19th and 20th centuries - online bibliography - Justus Liebig University Gießen ( online )
2. ↑ * July 14, 1739 Frankfurt am Main; † May 5, 1786 in Bad Homburg, son of Johann Philipp Fresenius (born October 22, 1705 in Niederwiesen; † July 4, 1761 in Frankfurt / Main)