Friedrich Mehmel (philologist)
Friedrich Mehmel (born December 5, 1910 in Hamburg , † July 5, 1951 in Münster in Westphalia ) was a German classical philologist .
Life
Friedrich Mehmel attended the Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hamburg and from Easter 1929 studied classical philology at the universities of Hamburg , Berlin , Florence and Munich . His teachers included Ettore Bignone , Giorgio Pasquali (both Florence), Rudolf Pfeiffer (Munich), Friedrich Klingner (Hamburg), Werner Jaeger and Eduard Norden (both Berlin). He achieved his doctorate in 1934 at the University of Hamburg with a dissertation on Valerius Flaccus , which went back to the suggestion of Johannes Stroux (Berlin) and was supervised by Bruno Snell and Ernst Kapp .
Mehmel completed his habilitation in Hamburg as early as 1937 with the font Virgil und Apollonius Rhodius , which was printed in 1940. From the summer semester of 1938 to the winter semester of 1939/1940, he worked as an assistant at the Department of Classical Philology in Hamburg. When the Second World War broke out , he was called up and interrupted his academic career.
In 1941, the University of Freiburg placed him third on the list of appointments for a full professorship, which was finally given to Karl Büchner , who was of the same age . The Appeals Committee criticized Mehmel for the fact that he was "more the type of the aesthetic writer and by no means the type of a fighter" . Mehmel had been a member of the NSDAP as well as the NSLB and the Reiter-SA since July 1937 . In his private life, he was distant from the Nazi regime. This was due to the influence of his academic teachers Bruno Snell and Karl Reinhardt .
After the end of the war, Mehmel received a full professorship at the University of Münster . He died on July 5, 1951 at the age of 40 as a result of a war wound. One of his few doctoral students was the church historian Friedrich Anton Normann .
literature
- Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , Edition 1954, Volume 1, p. II (Nekrolog).
Web links
- Wilt Aden Schröder : Biogram of Friedrich Mehmel in the scholarly historical prosopography of the Teuchos Center
Individual evidence
- ^ Eckart Krause, Ludwig Huber, Holger Fischer (eds.), Everyday University Life in the "Third Reich". 1. Introduction, general aspects, Volume 2 , Berlin / Hamburg 1991, p. 821, note 107.
- ↑ Jürgen Malitz : Classical Philology . In: Eckhard Wirbelauer (ed.): The Freiburg Philosophical Faculty 1920–1960. Members - structures - networks . Freiburg / Munich 2006, pp. 344-345 ( online ).
First chair: Hermann Ludwig Nadermann (1821–1853) | Ferdinand Deycks (1843–1867) | Peter Langen (1868–1897) | Peter Sonnenburg (1898–1928) | Franz Beckmann (1931–1963) | Hermann Tränkle (1963–1972) | Christian Gnilka (1972-2002) | Christine Schmitz (since 2002)
Second chair: Franz Winiewski (1838–1874) | Johann Matthias Stahl (1874–1906) | Wilhelm Kroll (1906–1913) | Richard Wünsch (1913–1915) | Hermann Schöne (1916–1935) | Walter Eberhardt (1937–1946) | Friedrich Mehmel (1947–1951) | Richard Harder (1952–1957) | Gerhard Müller (1958–1962) | Martin Sicherheitsl (1963–1982) | Wolfgang Huebner (1986-2004) | Alexander Arweiler (since 2004)
Third chair (until 1918 extraordinary): Franz Ignaz Schwerdt (1861–1868) | Adalbert Parmet (1869–1898) | Carl Hosius (1897–1906) | Ludwig Radermacher (1906–1909) | Karl Münscher (1909–1936) | Rudolf Güngerich (1951–1953) | Hermann Kleinknecht (1953–1960) | Heinrich Dörrie (1961–1980) | Hermann Wankel (1981–1991) | Adolf Köhnken (1992–2002) | Christian Pietsch (since 2003)
Fourth chair: Otto Hiltbrunner (1962–1979)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mehmel, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th July 1951 |
| Place of death | Muenster |