Günter Wojaczek

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Günter Wojaczek

Günter Wojaczek (born June 10, 1932 in Katowice ; †  November 9, 1997 in Pödeldorf near Bamberg ) was a German classical philologist , didactic specialist in ancient languages and high school teacher .

Life

Günter Wojaczek and the later classical philologist Joachim Latacz attended the municipal high school in Katowice until January 1945. In the course of fleeing via western Upper Silesia, Austria and Hesse, he was briefly a pupil from Easter 1946 onwards in the Neukirchen department of the Staatliche Wilhelmschule in Kassel ( secondary school ), which was provisionally set up after the war , before he came to Bamberg with his family in March 1947. Here he attended the New High School , where the classical philologist and Goethe researcher Gottfried Diener was one of his teachers. After graduating from high school in 1952, he studied classical philology, German studies, Byzantine studies, archeology (at times exclusively) and history at the University of Erlangen with the support of a scholarship from the Free State of Bavaria for particularly gifted people .

After his legal clerkship at the Gymnasium Fridericianum in Erlangen , Friedrich-Alexander-Gymnasium in Neustadt an der Aisch and at the Johann-Philipp-von-Schönborn-Gymnasium in Münnerstadt , he initially taught at the Birklehof School in Hinterzarten , before becoming a teacher at the Nordhorn Gymnasium in 1960 entered the service of the state of Lower Saxony.

At the University of Cologne he received his doctorate in 1968 with Reinhold Merkelbach , Hellfried Dahlmann and Berthold Rubin on the subject of Daphnis . Studies on the Greek bucolic .

In 1970 he returned to his previous school in Bamberg. Here he was the specialist supervisor for ancient languages ​​and college level supervisor before he retired as director of studies in December 1993 .

In the spring of 1994 he organized the biennial federal congress of the German Association of Classical Philologists in the Bamberg Concert and Congress Hall .

For his scientific and didactic achievements, Günter Wojaczek was appointed honorary professor for classical philology, especially didactics of ancient languages, at the University of Bamberg on April 10, 1995 by the then Bavarian minister of education, Hans Zehetmair . His inaugural lecture was entitled The Syrinx des Paris Simichidas . Notes on the transmission of an ancient figure poem . In his other regular lectures he was mainly interested in the ancient novel .

Act

In terms of science, Günter Wojaczek excelled mainly in the field of ancient shepherd poetry . Until the publication of Wojaczek's dissertation, only Carl Haeberlin with Carmina figurata Graeca (1886) examined the area of ​​bucolic figure poems , which were written by, among others, Theocritus of Syracuse , who is considered to be the founder, Dosiadas of Crete and Simias of Rhodes . Given the lack of clarity among philologists as to whether the figural poems were real inscriptions on objects or unrealized book epigrams, Wojaczek came to the conclusion that, given their religious significance, they must be consecration epigrams. Thus Wojaczek, as a representative of an ancient philology oriented towards the history of religion, developed the fundamental commentary on the bucolic technopegnias ; It was only after this publication that scientific interest in the field of ancient bucolic figure poetry grew.

He underpinned his thesis of the religious origin of ancient figural poetry in further specialist research, lectures (at the annual vacation conference for classical philologists in Marktoberdorf) and articles; elsewhere he came to the conclusion that Theocrit, who belonged to the poets' society of Kos, first wrote his verses on a reed pipe ( syrinx ) and then consecrated it to the shepherd god Pan . In addition to his publications, his lecture on “ The Greek Technopagnias. On the genesis and structure of a literary form ”, which he held in 1987 at the international congress“ Visual Poetry in Historical Change - Changing Forms of Visual Poetry ” organized by Jeremy Adler and Ulrich Ernst in the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel. This symposium was supported by the exhibition “Text and Figure. Visual poetry from three millennia ”. In addition to ancient figural poetry and its reception, his scientific field of interest also included questions of the sociology of religion , mystery cults and rituals in ancient literature, especially the ancient novel by Cicero and Emperor Julian .

Wojaczek also made a name for himself through a wide range of specialist didactic activities. For the first time he designed a curriculum used in Bavaria for the subject of archeology, which he presented as a lecture at a colloquium of the Mommsen Society and the German Association of Classical Philologists on archeology in teacher training in 1981 in Mainz and as a publication in 1985 in the specialist journal Gymnasium . In addition, he was the author and co-editor of numerous Latin teaching works for high schools ( Instrumentum , Roma ). The textbook Studium Latinum , which he wrote together with Gebhard Kurz (Mainz) as co-author and didactic advisor, was the first teaching work for university Latin courses. On behalf of the Bavarian Ministry of Culture , he also held specialist didactic training courses for teachers of ancient languages ​​in Hof on the subject of the so-called curricular curricula introduced in the Bavarian grammar schools in the 1970s , in whose development he was involved in the subjects of Latin and Greek. He was also a lecturer at the Academy for Teacher Training and Personnel Management in Dillingen and until his appointment as honorary professor, he was also a lecturer at the University of Bamberg for didactics of Latin language and literature.

Günter Wojaczek in his study (1996)

Günter Wojaczek was also involved in specialist politics. From 1972 he acted as chairman of the Classical Philology Section and the German Classical Philological Association in Upper Franconia. In this role he organized a one-day professional and didactic training for classical philologists in Bamberg every year until the end. From 1978 to 1983 he was also the state chairman of the Bavarian Classical Philology Association. From 1978 on, together with Friedrich Maier , he was the editor and editor of The Ancient Languages ​​in Classes ( DASiU ); here he published a large number of articles and reviews.

In addition, he held lectures on ancient cultural and intellectual history, Greek and Roman archeology, Greek mythology and literary history as well as ancient philosophy in the field of adult education as a long-time lecturer at the Bamberg Adult Education Center . In this context he also organized excursions and study trips to Greece and Italy ( Etruria , Rome , Pompeii , Paestum ).

Other engagement

Before his home town in 1978 Pödeldorf to Litzendorf was incorporated, Wojaczek engaged there as a council member ( CSU ).

During his studies, Günter Wojaczek joined the Catholic student association KDSt.V. in 1952 . Fredericia zu Bamberg joined in CV . He was also a member of the Görres Society .

family

Günter Wojaczek comes from an Upper Silesian mining family , was married and the father of three sons.

Awards

Publications (selection)

Specialist science

  • Daphnis. Studies on Greek bucolic (= contributions to classical philology , volume 34). Anton Hain, Meisenheim am Glan 1969, DNB 458692573 (dissertation University of Cologne 1969, 155 pages). ISSN  0522-6821
    • Reviews: Gilbert Lawall, Classical World 64, 1970, pp. 123-124; Francis Vian , Revue des Études Grecques 83, 1970, pp. 245-247; André Wankenne, Les Études Classiques 38, 1970, p. 376; William Berg, American Journal of Philology 92, 1971, pp. 735-739; François-Xavier Druet, Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire 49, 1971, p. 652; Jacques Schwartz, Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophie religieuses 52, 1972, p. 121.
    • Reception (selection): Angelika Geyer , novel and mystery ritual. In: Würzburg Yearbooks for Classical Studies NF 3, 1977, pp. 179–196. ( online; PDF, 11.6 MB ); Silvia Strodel, On the Tradition and Understanding of the Hellenistic Technopaignies. ( Studies in Classical Philology 132 ), Lang (publishing house), Frankfurt a. M./Berlin et al. 2002; Luis Arturo Guichard, Simias' pattern poems: The margins of the canon. In MA Harder, RF Regtuit and GC Wakker (eds.), Beyond the Canon , Leuven (2006), pp. 83-103; Christine Luz, Technopaignia. Form games in Greek poetry. ( Mnemosyne Supplements 324), Brill (Verlag), Leiden / Boston 2010; Edmund P. Cueva, Shannon N. Byrne (Eds.), A Companion to the Ancient Novel. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, et al. a. 2014.
  • Bucolica Analecta. In: Würzburg Yearbooks for Classical Studies NF 5, 1979, pp. 81–90. ( online; PDF, 3.8 MB )
  • OPΓIA EΠIΣTHMHΣ. To the philosophical initiation in Ciceros Somnium Scipionis . In: Würzburg Yearbooks for Classical Studies NF 9, 1983, pp. 123–145. ( online; PDF, 9.2 MB )
  • OPΓIA EΠIΣTHMHΣ (II). To the philosophical initiation in Ciceros Somnium Scipionis. In: Würzburg Yearbooks for Classical Studies NF 11, 1985, pp. 93–128. ( online; PDF, 11.8 MB )
  • Structure and Initiation - Observations on Ciceros Somnium Scipionis. In: Peter Neukam (Ed.): Reflections of ancient cultures ( Dialogue between schools and science. Classical languages ​​and literatures 20). Bayerischer Schulbuch-Verlag, Munich 1986, pp. 144–190.
  • Key and Snake: Two figural texts from antiquity and the Middle Ages. In: Würzburg Yearbooks for Classical Studies NF 14, 1988, pp. 241-252. ( online; PDF, 14.2 MB )
  • The consecration of Emperor Julian's Helios. An initiatory text of Neoplatonism . In: Peter Neukam (Ed.): New Perspectives ( Dialogue School and Science. Classical Languages ​​and Literatures 23). Bayerischer Schulbuch-Verlag, Munich 1989, pp. 177–212.
  • The consecration of Emperor Julian's Helios. An initiatory text of Neoplatonism. In: Würzburg Yearbooks for Classical Studies NF 18, 1992, pp. 207–236. ( online; PDF, 37.2 MB)
  • Bucolic votive offerings. The figure poems of Simias, Theocritus and Dosiadas. In: Peter Neukam (Ed.): Motive and Motivation ( Dialogue School and Science. Classical Languages ​​and Literatures 27). Bayerischer Schulbuch-Verlag, Munich 1993, pp. 125–176.
  • Philosophers, people, animals. Reflections on a Laktanz text (De ira Dei 7, 1–15). In: Karl Bayer , Peter Petersen , Klaus Westphalen (eds.): The ancient world and its mediation. Festschrift for Friedrich Maier on his 60th birthday. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1995, pp. 151-160.

Subject didactics

Editing

Textbooks and teaching materials

Co-author of the ROMA volumes was Dr. Gerhard Hertel (also a former teacher at the Franz Ludwig Grammar School)

  • ROMA Edition A, Volume III: Stories from the Old World , 196 pages, Bamberg / Munich 1977 ff.
  • INSTRUMENT III. Latin teaching work , together with Jürgen Herrmann, Raimund Pfister and Ulrich Tipp, co-editor and author (lessons and factual information), Bamberg 1980 ff. (Review by Jacques Marneffe, in: Latomus. Revue d'études latines 41 (1/1982), p . 212-213).
  • ROMA III: teacher's booklet with appendix sentence model , 144 pages, Bamberg 1983.
  • ROMA Edition B, Volume II , Bamberg 1985 ff ( Part I: Texts and Exercises , 128 pages; Part II: Grammar and Vocabulary , 152 pages).
  • ROMA EXPRESS III (additional exercises with solutions) , 72 and 39 pages, Bamberg 1986 ff.
  • ROMA edition C II (2nd half), 224 pages, Bamberg 1988 ff.
  • ROMA edition C III , 224 pages, Bamberg 1989 ff.
  • ROMA EXPRESS B II , 80 and 51 pages, Bamberg 1992 ff.
  • ROMA EXPRESS C II (2nd half), 58 and 40 pages, Bamberg 1992 ff.
  • ROMA EXPRESS C III , 55 and 35 pages, Bamberg 1993 ff.
  • STUDIES LATINUM. Latin for university courses, co-author and didactic advisor to Dr. Gebhard Kurz (Mainz), two volumes, 200 and 264 pages, Bamberg 1993 ff. (Review by Ulrich Victor, in: Forum Classicum 37 (3/1994), pp. 108–110 ( online; PDF, 1.74 MB ) ).

Essays

  • Problems of performance measurement in the ancient languages. In: suggestion. Zeitschrift für Gymnasialpädagogik 19, 3, 1973, pp. 211–214.
  • Return to classical education. In: Fränkischer Tag , Bamberg, August 29, 1978 and in: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Altphilologenverband. Landesverband Niedersachsen 28 (3/1978), p. 10.
  • Teaching works in the ancient languages. In: Joachim Gruber , Friedrich Maier (Hrsg.): Didactic study in teacher training. Alte Sprachen 1 , Munich 1979, pp. 250-265.
  • Basic course in archeology. Draft for your own curriculum for four semesters. In: The Ancient Languages ​​in Teaching 26 (3/1979), pp. 19–26; and: Basic course in archeology. Draft for your own curriculum for four semesters. Part 2: Roman Archeology. In: The ancient languages ​​in teaching 27 (3/1980), pp. 12–22.
  • The ancient languages ​​in today's high school. In: The educational goals of the Gymnasium in Bayern , Munich 1981, pp. 28–33.
  • Latin - the basis of the Christian West. Special supplement Latin. In: Deutsche Tagespost , 23./24. December 1982, p. 11.
  • Enlightenment as a European fate. Thoughts on the first European enlightenment among the Greek sophists . In: Deutsche Tagespost , 11./12. February 1983.
  • Objective lessons : basic archeology course. In: Gymnasium 92 (1,2 / 1985), pp. 47-59.
  • On the constant change. One hundred years of ancient language teaching 1890–1990. In: Festschrift Neues Gymnasium / Franz-Ludwig-Gymnasium Bamberg . 1890–1990, ed. Einwich, Friedrich / Schmitt, Alfred, Fränkischer Tag, Bamberg 1990, pp. 95–118.
  • Latin - a victim of the streamlining of studies . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 14, 1996, No. 215, p. 10.

See also

literature

  • Klaus Westphalen : Günter Wojaczek appointed honorary professor. In: The ancient languages ​​in teaching 42 (2/1995), p. 11.
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists. Humanities and Social Sciences. 17th edition, 1996, p. 1607.
  • Dr. Günther [sic] Wojaczek has been appointed honorary professor for classical philology, especially didactics of ancient languages, at the University of Bamberg. In: Gnomon 68, 1996, p. 576.
  • Dieter Friedel: Mourning for Prof. Dr. Günter Wojaczek. In: The ancient languages ​​in teaching 44 (4/1997), p. 3.
  • Friedrich Maier : To say goodbye to Günter Wojaczek. In: The ancient languages ​​in teaching 44 (4/1997), pp. 3–5.
  • Friedrich Maier: On the death of Günter Wojaczek. In: Forum Classicum 40 (4/1997), p. 219. ( online; PDF, 4.4 MB )
  • On our own behalf (short report on the Federal Congress of the German Association of Classical Philologists). In: Forum Classicum 37 (2/1994), p. 40. ( online; PDF, 984 kB )
  • The honorary professor of classical philology, in particular of didactics of ancient languages ​​at the University of Bamberg, Dr. Günther [sic] Wojaczek died on November 9, 1997 at the age of 66. In: Gnomon 70, 1998, p. 193.

Web links

Commons : Günter Wojaczek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Maier: On the death of Günter Wojaczek . In: Forum Classicum 40, 4, 1997, p. 219.
  2. ↑ Wikimedia Commons : Appointment honorary professor, April 10, 1995 .
  3. ↑ Wikimedia Commons : Inaugural lecture by Günter Wojaczek, November 15, 1995 .
  4. ^ Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg. Personnel and course directory. Bamberg 1995 ff.
  5. ^ Wikisource : Carl Haeberlin .
  6. ^ WorldCat : Literature by Günter Wojaczek .
  7. ^ CC Buchner: Studium Latinum .
  8. ↑ The Ancient Languages ​​in Classes : Index .
  9. ↑ Friedrich Maier: On the farewell to Günter Wojaczek. In: The ancient languages ​​in teaching 44, 4, 1997, pp. 3–5.
personal data
SURNAME Wojaczek, Günter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wojaczek, Günter Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Katowice
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1997
Place of death Pödeldorf