Georg Lejeune Dirichlet

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Georg Lejeune Dirichlet (born September 20, 1858 in Klein Bretschkehmen, Darkehmen district ; † July 3, 1920 in Königsberg i. Pr. ) Was a German classical philologist and high school teacher.

Life

Dirichlet's father was the landowner and free-spirited member of the Prussian state parliament Walter Lejeune Dirichlet (1833–1887). He himself was the great-grandson of Moses Mendelssohn and nephew of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy .

From Michaelis 1867 to Easter 1877 he attended the Collegium Fridericianum . After graduation, he studied classical philology at the Universities of Königsberg , Bonn and Leipzig . On April 26, 1882, he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. After taking the exam for the higher subject on February 24, 1883, he came to the Kneiphöfische Gymnasium in Königsberg as a trial candidate on Easter 1883 . It elected him at Easter 1884 as a regular assistant teacher and hired him on August 8, 1885 as a full teacher. In 1904 he was appointed director of the old town high school in Königsberg. He was particularly concerned with the ability to translate (linguistics) . For him it was an excellent means of perfecting himself in the written and oral use of the mother tongue and at the same time better understanding its characteristics. He dealt with Seneca , Tiberius and Paul Güßfeldt . He was friends with the mayor of Königsberg, Siegfried Körte , whose obituary wrote in the Old Prussian monthly .

Elected to the city council in 1896, he was elected to the board of directors in 1898 and head of the Königsberg city council in 1914. Liberal by nature, he joined the German Fatherland Party . He lost his two sons in the First World War. He died after a cholecystectomy at the age of 62. His tombstone in Kaliningrad has been preserved.

Publications

  • The conversion of the old town parish school into a city high school . Koenigsberg 1912.
  • The philosopher Seneca as a source for judging the first Roman emperors . Program Königsberg Kneiphöfisches Gymnasium. Koenigsberg i. Pr. 1890.
  • Paul Güßfeldt and the humanistic grammar school . Koenigsberg 1890.
  • The Emperor Tiberius and the Majesty Trials . In: Sunday supplement of the Vossische Zeitung 10th and 17th July 1898.
  • The art of translating into the mother tongue . In: New year books for classical philology and pedagogy . 1894, issue 10, 11.

literature

  • Franz Koessler: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century . Band Daase - Dzialas. Giessen 2008 ( digitized version )

Remarks

  1. ↑ Dissertation: De equitibus atticis .
  2. ↑ a b Memory of Dirichlet (ostpreussen.net)
  3. ^ Georg Dirichlet: Siegfried Körte. A picture of life and character . In: Altpreußische Monatsschrift 57, 1920, pp. 145–169 ( digitized version ); s. also afterword by the editor in appreciation of Dirichlet, ibid. p. 170.
  4. ↑ Dirichlet's gravestone in Kaliningrad (ostpreussen.net) .
personal data
SURNAME Lejeune Dirichlet, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lejeune Dirichlet, Georg Gustav Ludwig (full name); Dirichlet, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Klein Bretschkehmen, district Darkehmen
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 1920
Place of death Koenigsberg i. Pr.