Georg Bippart

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Georg Bippart (born August 17, 1816 in Berka / Werra ; † April 1, 1892 ) was a German classical philologist who was professor at the University of Prague from 1852 to 1883.

Life

Georg Bippart attended high school in Eisenach from 1830 and studied philology at the universities of Jena , Berlin and Leipzig from 1835 . Here he received his doctorate in 1840 under Gottfried Hermann . From 1842 to 1846 he was director of a private school in Eisenach. After his habilitation (1846), he held lectures as a private lecturer at the University of Jena, which appointed him associate professor in 1850. At Easter 1852 he left the University of Jena, converted to Catholicism in Passau and spent some time studying manuscripts in Vienna . In the same year he was appointed associate professor at the German University in Prague , where he held the second chair for classical philology at the Philological Seminar, which was newly founded in 1849. In 1858 he was appointed full professor, in 1860 admitted to the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences and in 1883 he retired .

As a researcher, Bippart was particularly concerned with Horace , early Roman history and the Greek poet Pindar . His main work Pindar's Leben, Weltanschauung und Kunst (Jena 1848) was overtaken in the 1960s by the publications of Leopold Schmidt and others.

literature

  • Autobiography in: David August Rosenthal : Convertite pictures from the nineteenth century . First volume: Germany. Schaffhausen 1866, pp. 782-793.
  • Friedrich August Eckstein : Nomenclator philologorum . Leipzig 1871, p. 47.
  • Hugo Rokyta: Georg Bippart and the beginnings of the founder cult in Bohemia . In: Adalbert Stifter Institute of the Province of Upper Austria. Quarterly . Volume 21, 1972, pp. 41-44.
  • Martin Sicherheitsl : Classical Philology at the German University of Prague 1849–1945 . In: Eikasmós . Volume 14, 2003, pp. 393-419, here p. 395.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Historical quarterly journal , Volume 21 (1972). P. 43.