Georg Mau

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Georg Mau (born December 31, 1880 in Boddin , † July 19, 1967 in Schongau ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher.

Georg Mau came from a widespread Mecklenburg family of officials and pastors. His father was the former school principal and pastor Wilhelm Mau (1850–1929), the son of the Schwerin cathedral preacher Christoph Joachim Friedrich Mau (1822–1883); his mother Friederike geb. Sattler (1861–1883) died when Georg was little. Georg Mau received his first lessons from his father, attended the cathedral school in Güstrow from 1895 and studied classical philology in Heidelberg , Leipzig and Strasbourg from March 1900 , where he was particularly influenced by the Harnack pupil Karl Johannes Neumann . With him he received on March 2, 1904 with a dissertation on the religious philosophy of the emperor Julian Apostata to the Dr. phil. PhD . On February 24 and 25, 1905, Mau passed the teaching examination in Greek, Latin, Philosophical Propaedeutics and History.

Mau completed his preparatory service for the higher teaching post at the Royal Catholic High School in Gleiwitz , where he was a senior teacher. On April 1, 1907, he switched to the municipal high school in Gleiwitz as a senior teacher; in the same year he married Eva Raspe (1882–1949) in the Nikolaikirche in Rostock , with whom he had four children. From 1915 to 1918 Mau took part in the First World War. In 1918 he received the Mecklenburg Military Merit Cross .

On August 8, 1933, Mau moved to the Augusta-Viktoria-Schule in Liegnitz as senior teacher , where he was appointed director on July 1, 1940. Towards the end of the Second World War , Mau fled Liegnitz with his wife and children in 1945. Even after his retirement he taught at the Oberschule in Bernburg (Saale) and at the Pforta State School for a few years . He spent his old age in good health in the Bavarian city of Schongau .

Fonts (selection)

  • Emperor Julian's philosophy of religion in his speeches on King Helios and the mother of the gods. First chapter: King Helios . Leipzig 1906 (dissertation)
  • Emperor Julian's philosophy of religion in his speeches on King Helios and the mother of the gods. With a translation of the two speeches . Leipzig 1907 (extended dissertation)
  • Julian in Ibsen's “Emperors and Galileans” (Chapter 1: Caesar's apostasy) . Liegnitz 1909 (school program)
  • Greek vocabulary organized by word family . Leipzig / Berlin 1914
  • Iamblichos 3. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IX, 1, Stuttgart 1914, Col. 645-651.

literature

  • Liegnitzer Heimatbrief: Home newspaper of the Lower Silesians . No. 24 (1960), pp. 392–394 (biographical sketches, photos)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Message from the Schongau City Archives, May 10, 2013.
  2. ↑ http://gedbas.genealogy.net/person/show/1031412300
personal data
SURNAME Mau, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mau, Georg Ludwig Friedrich Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Boddin
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1967
Place of death Schongau