Friedrich Leo
Friedrich Leo (born July 10, 1851 in Regenwalde , Prussia; † January 15, 1914 in Göttingen ) was a German classical philologist who lived in Kiel (1881-1883), Rostock (1883-1888), Strasbourg (1888-1889) and Göttingen (1889–1914) worked as a professor. As a Latinist , he made lasting contributions to the dramatic poetry of the Romans, especially in the textual criticism of Plautus and Seneca .
Life
The son of the doctor Ludwig Friedrich Leo studied from 1868 in Göttingen , where he joined the Brunsviga fraternity . After military service in the war of 1870/71, he then studied classical philology in Bonn with Franz Bücheler and Hermann Usener , together with Georg Kaibel , Friedrich von Duhn , Georg Dehio and Hans Delbrück . After obtaining his doctorate in 1873, Leo traveled several times to the Mediterranean countries and completed his habilitation in Bonn in 1877. In 1881 he became associate professor in Kiel , in 1883 full professor in Rostock and in 1888 in Strasbourg . In 1889 he was appointed to a Latinist chair in Göttingen, which he held until his death. Richard Reitzenstein was his successor . In the academic year 1903/1904 Leo was rector of the University of Göttingen. Since 1893 he was also a full member of the Göttingen Society of Sciences and since 1897 its secretary.
In 1883 Friedrich Leo married Cécile Hensel (1858–1928), a daughter of the landowner and entrepreneur Sebastian Hensel , granddaughter of the composer Fanny Hensel and the painter Wilhelm Hensel and great-great-granddaughter of the philosopher and entrepreneur Moses Mendelssohn and sister of the philosopher Paul Hensel , the mathematician Kurt Hensel and the writer Lili du Bois-Reymond , b. Hensel. Cécile was an enthusiastic silhouette artist, whose artistic works still attract attention today. The couple had three children: Erika Leo (1887–1949, married to the Germanist Walther Brecht since 1913 ), the Romanist Ulrich Leo (1890–1964) and the theologian Paul Leo (1893–1958), see his father's list of tribe Ludwig Friedrich Leo .
Services
Right at the beginning of his scientific career, Leo published basic editions of the tragedies of Seneca and (for the Monumenta Germaniae Historica ) of Venantius Fortunatus . Later, Plautus and early Roman literature in general were the focus of his research. In addition, he dealt with the biography in antiquity. Like Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff , who was temporarily his colleague in Göttingen, Leo represented the concept of a comprehensive classical studies.
Honors
- 1889: full member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen
- 1906: corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
Fonts (selection)
- Plautinian research . Weidmann, Berlin 1895; 2nd edition 1912 ( digitized version ); Reprint Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1966.
- The Greco-Roman biography according to its literary form . Teubner, Leipzig 1901 ( digitized version ); Reprinted by Olms, Hildesheim, 1990. ISBN 3-487-00986-2
- The Saturnian verse. Weidmann, Berlin 1905.
- History of Roman Literature . Vol. 1. The archaic literature . Weidmann, Berlin 1913 ( digitized version ).
- Selected small fonts . Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma 1960, 2 volumes
literature
- Wolfram Ax : Friedrich Leo, Professor of Classical Philology 1889–1914 . In: Carl Joachim Classen (Hrsg.): The classical antiquity at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. A lecture series on their history . Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989. pp. 149-177. ISBN 3-525-35845-8
- Ulrich Schindel : Leo, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 241 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Paul Wendland : Talk to Friedrich Leo. Held in the public meeting of the Kgl. Society of Sciences in Göttingen on May 2, 1914. Weidmann, Berlin 1914.
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Leo in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Friedrich Leo in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
Individual evidence
First chair (since 1972 C3 professorship): Karl Friedrich Heinrich (1804–1818) | Wilhelm Wachsmuth (1820–1825) | Gregor Wilhelm Nitzsch (1827-1852) | Georg Curtius (1854–1862) | Otto Ribbeck (1862–1872) | August Wilmanns (1873–1874) | Eduard Lübbert (1874–1881) | Richard Foerster (1881–1890) | Ivo Bruns (1890–1901) | Siegfried Brewhouse (1901–1914) | Werner Jaeger (1915–1921) | Christian Jensen (1921–1926) | Manfred Fuhrmann (1962–1966) | Antonie Wlosok (1968–1972) | Herbert Juhnke (1972–1997) | Lore Benz (1997-2001) | Hans Bernsdorff (2002–2003) | Jan Radicke (since 2004)
Second chair: Friedrich Blass (1881–1892) | Alfred Schöne (1892–1902) | Paul Wendland (1902–1906) | Felix Jacoby (1907-1935) | Erich Burck (1938–1969) | Ernst Doblhofer (1971–1984) | Konrad Heldmann (1985-2005) | Thorsten Burkard (since 2005)
Third chair (until 1921 extraordinary): Johann Matthias Schultz (1802–1846) | Erwin Rohde (1872–1876) | Friedrich Blass (1876–1881) | Friedrich Leo (1881–1883) | Christian Lütjohann (1884) | Ivo Bruns (1886–1890) | Otto Rossbach (1890–1895) | Ernst Bickel (1909–1921) | Johannes Stroux (1922–1923) | Eduard Fraenkel (1923–1928) | Richard Harder (1930-1941) | Hans Diller (1942–1973) | Ernst-Richard Schwinge (1976–1999) | Lutz Käppel (since 1999)
First chair (until 1810 council professorship of the Greek language): Johannes Posselius (the elder) (1553–1591) | Johannes Posselius (the Younger) (1593–1623) | Johann Huswedel (1623–1627) | Bernhard Taddel (1650–1656) | Christian Woldenberg (1657-1659) | Heinrich Müller (1659–1662) | Christian Kortholt (1663–1665) | Johann Mantzel (1674–1681) | Gottfried Weiss (1684–1693) | Johann Gottlieb Möller (1694–1696) | Jacob Burgmann (1699–1724) | Jakob Christoph Wolff (1725–1758) | Hermann Jacob Lasius (1764–1802) | Johann Christian Wilhelm Dahl (1802–1803) | Immanuel Gottlieb Huschke (1806–1828) | Gustav Christoph Sarpe (1815–1830) | Ludwig Bachmann (1833–1881) Rudolf Helm (1907–1937) | Andreas Thierfelder (1938–1940) | Rudolf Helm (1947–1948) | Werner Hartke (1948–1955) | Franz Zimmermann (1961–1962) | Wolfgang Hering (1964–1986) | Wolfgang Bernard (since 1994)
Second chair: Franz Volkmar Fritzsche (1828–1887) | Eduard Schwartz (1887-1893) | Hans von Arnim (1893–1900) | Otto Kern (1900–1907) | Johannes Geffcken (1907–1933) | Kurt von Fritz (1933–1934) | Hans Diller (1937–1942) | Hermann Kleinknecht (1944–1951) | Werner Krenkel (1975–1993) | Jürgen Leonhardt (1994–1997) | Christiane Reitz (1999–2019) | Nicola Hömke (since 2019)
Third chair (from 1888 extraordinary): Richard Foerster (1875–1881) | Georg Kaibel (1882–1883) | Friedrich Leo (1883–1888) | Friedrich Marx (1888–1889) | Richard Reitzenstein (1889-1892) | Hans von Arnim (1893) | Erich Bethe (1893–1897) | Otto Kern (1897–1900) | Karl Kalbfleisch (1900–1903) | Otto Plasberg (1903–1909)
First chair: Johann Matthias Gesner (1734–1761) | Christian Gottlob Heyne (1763–1812) | Christoph Wilhelm Mitscherlich (1814–1835) | Karl Friedrich Hermann (1842–1856) | Ernst Curtius (1856–1868) | Kurt Wachsmuth (1869–1877) | Karl Dilthey (1877–1887) | Wilhelm Meyer (1887–1889) | Friedrich Leo (1889–1914) | Richard Reitzenstein (1914–1928) | Eduard Fraenkel (1928–1931) | Kurt Latte (1931-1935) | Hans Drexler (1940–1945) | Kurt Latte (1946–1957) | Karl Deichgräber (1957–1969) | Klaus Nickau (1970-2000) | Heinz-Günther Nesselrath (since 2001).
Second chair: Georg Ludolf Dissen (1813–1837) | Ernst von Leutsch (1837–1883) | Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1883–1897) | Georg Kaibel (1897–1901) | Eduard Schwartz (1902–1909) | Paul Wendland (1909–1915) | Max Pohlenz (1916–1937) | Karl Deichgräber (1938–1946) | Walter F. Otto (1946–1948) | Wolf-Hartmut Friedrich (1948–1972) | Carl Joachim Classen (1973–1993) | Siegmar Döpp (1995-2007) | Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser (since 2008).
Third chair: Ernst Karl Friedrich Wunderlich (1808–1816) | Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1816–1819) | Karl Otfried Müller (1819–1840) | Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin (1842–1856) | Hermann Sauppe (1856-1893) | Wilhelm Meyer (1895–1917) | Günther Jachmann (1917–1922) | Wilhelm Baehrens (1922–1929) | ( Ludolf Malten ) (1945–1958) | Will Richter (1959–1975) | Ulrich Schindel (1976-2003) | Peter Kuhlmann (since 2004).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leo, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leo, Friedrich Georg Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rainforest |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 1914 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |