Günther Jachmann

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Günther Jachmann (born May 10, 1887 in Gumbinnen ; † September 17, 1979 in Cologne ) was a German classical philologist who worked as a professor in Göttingen (1917–1922), Greifswald (1922), Basel (1922–1925) and Cologne ( 1925–1952) worked. As a researcher, he dealt with the text criticism of various Latin and Greek authors, with the linguistics of Old Latin and the explanation of Homer's epics .

Life

Jachmann came from an East Prussian family of officials and scholars. His father was the Oberregierungsrat Bernhard Jachmann, his mother was Margarete geb. Tiessen. Günther attended the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin and began to study classical philology at the University of Göttingen in 1905 , where his teachers were Friedrich Leo , Eduard Schwartz and Jacob Wackernagel . Apart from a semester in Bonn with Franz Bücheler (1906), Jachmann spent all of his studies in Göttingen. In 1909 he received his doctorate with Friedrich Leo with the grade “summa cum laude”. His dissertation dealt with the Didascalia of Aristotle . From 1909 to 1912 he worked as an assistant at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich and completed his habilitation in Marburg in 1912 .

From 1914 to 1917 Jachmann was the second editor of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae and in 1917 he received a scheduled extraordinary professorship in Göttingen. After briefly teaching in Dorpat from September to December 1918 , he returned to Göttingen and was appointed personal professor there in 1921. In 1922 he went to Greifswald as a full professor and in the same year changed to the University of Basel as the successor to Johannes Stroux . He took up his position in life with the call to the newly established chair for Latin philology at the University of Cologne , where he stayed until his retirement in 1952. He turned down an offer to succeed Richard Heinzes at Leipzig University (1930). During the time of National Socialism , an unofficial preliminary inquiry was made to Jachmann in 1935 as to whether he would be willing to take his place at the Munich University if Johannes Stroux left . Jachmann refused because of the loyal atmosphere in Munich.

Services

In classical philology, Jachmann was particularly active in the field of textual criticism and research into Old Latin . He dealt with the transmission history of individual authors and works, including Terence , the Aeneid , Properz , Ausonius , Juvenals , Homers and Plato . To secure his attempts to restore the original text form, he increasingly used papyri . He dealt with larger problem cases in detail in separate treatises ( Basics of the Ausonius Criticism, 1941; Studies on Juvenal , 1943). In addition to his text-critical approaches, Jachmann also tried to emphasize the originality of the Latin authors compared to their Greek models. His inaugural lecture in Cologne (1926) is evidence of this.

In the old Latin area he has to solve problems of historical linguistics (as the Jambenkürzung rendered outstanding services) and non-traditional Greek models of Plautus researched and terentianischen comedies. Most of his studies in these areas are still valid today. Ulrich Knoche continued his work on Terenz .

After the Second World War , Jachmann became increasingly involved in Homer research . In his treatise Homeric Singles Songs , he turned against the standpoints of Ernst Howald and Wolfgang Schadewaldt, and his analytical approach met with both rejection and approval. He also worked on the same topic in his The Homeric Ship Catalog and the Iliad .

The fact that Jachmann limited himself to word philology for decades also earned him criticism. He humorously replied to his critics that they were completely different from the one who had lues Jachmanniana (Jachmann's disease).

Jachmann's private library (2,500 volumes) with numerous handwritten marginalia is now owned by the Wuppertal University Library . The rest of the estate, which includes manuscripts, correspondence and life documents, is in the Bavarian State Library ( call number : Ana 466).

Awards and memberships

literature

  • Who is it 1928, pp. 722-723
  • Who is who? XVII 1971/73, p. 477
  • Lexicon of Greifswald university lecturers 1775 to 2006 . Volume 3. 1907 to 1932 . Bock, Bad Honnef, 2004, p. 99.
  • Inge Auerbach: Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis. Second volume: 1910 to 1971 . Marburg 1979, p. 529
  • Reinhold Merkelbach , obituary for Günther Jachmann . In: Yearbook 1979 of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Opladen 1980), pp. 65–68
  • Wolfgang Schmid : Günther Jachmann † . In: Gnomon , Volume 52 (1980), pp. 201-203 (with picture)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the obituary in Gnomon 52 (1980), p. 201.
  2. ↑ See the obituary in Gnomon 52 (1980), p. 202.
personal data
SURNAME Jachmann, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Gumbinnen
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 1979
Place of death Cologne