Georg Knaack

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Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Knaack (born November 15, 1857 in Angermünde , † November 29, 1905 in Stettin ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher.

The son of a teacher studied classical philology at the University of Greifswald after graduating from high school, which he took in Stettin in 1876 . Here he was an early student of Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff , from whom he received numerous suggestions until the end of his life. After the teaching degree and doctorate in 1880, he went to the Stettiner Marienstiftsgymnasium as a teacher, where he was promoted to senior teacher in 1897. In 1898 he was given the title of "Professor". In that year, on the recommendation of Hermann Diels, he also received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute .

In addition to his teaching activities, Knaack wrote numerous works on Greek religion and mythology and on Hellenistic and imperial literature, starting with his Greifswald dissertation Analecta Alexandrino-Romana (1880). Up until his early death, he also provided numerous articles for the revision of the realcyclopedia of classical antiquity .

Fonts (selection)

  • Analecta Alexandrino-Romana . Greifswald 1880 (dissertation)
  • Quaestiones Phaethonteae . Berlin 1886
  • Callimachea . Szczecin 1887

literature

  • Berlin Philological Weekly . 26th year (1906), p. 709
  • Brandenburgia . Volume 14 (1906), p. 513
  • Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff: News from Kallimachos . In: Session reports of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences . Born in 1912. First half volume (January to June), Berlin 1912, pp. 524–550 (on Knaack 546)
  • Carl Ludwig Schleich : Sunny past. Memoirs of a Doctor . Berlin 1920, pp. 73-75.
  • Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff: Memories 1848–1914 . Leipzig 1928, p. 134. 192f.
  • Christoph Börker: Contributions to the history of the German Archaeological Institute from 1879 to 1929 . Volume 2, Mainz 1979, pp. 136f.
  • William M. Calder III , Robert L. Fowler: The Preserved Letters of Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff to Eduard Schwartz . Munich 1986, p. 33. 53 ( Meeting reports of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class . Born 1986, Issue 1)

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personal data
SURNAME Knaack, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knaack, Georg Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Angermünde
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1905
Place of death Szczecin