Georg Raddatz

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Georg Raddatz (born October 31, 1885 in Rummelsburg , Pomerania , † January 28, 1945 at Königsblick near Schneidemühl ) was a German classical philologist .

Georg Raddatz, son of the mill master Wilhelm Raddatz, attended the grammar school in Neustettin and passed the matriculation examination on February 28, 1906. He then studied classical philology and history at the universities of Jena (1906–1907), Berlin (1907–1908) and Greifswald (1908–1910). After his doctorate as Dr. phil. In 1909 he passed the state examination in Latin, Greek and history in July 1910.

After graduation, Raddatz completed the seminar and probationary year for employment in the Prussian school service at the König-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Stettin and at the Gymnasium in Stargard. From October 1912 to March 1913 he worked as an assistant teacher at the Marienstiftsgymnasium in Stettin. On April 1, 1913, he was given a permanent position as a senior teacher at the grammar school in Greifswald. On October 1, 1914, he returned to the König-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Stettin.

During the First World War , Raddatz served in the Landsturm without a weapon. He received the Cross of Merit for War Aid on October 20, 1917 . After the war ended, Raddatz went to the grammar school in Preussisch Friedland as director of studies in 1922 . After just one year, on April 1, 1923, he moved to the state grammar school in Schneidemühl as senior director , where he worked until the end of his life. In the last months of the Second World War , Raddatz was drafted into the Volkssturm . He fell when he saw the king.

In addition to his work in the school service, Raddatz dealt with Greek literature. His research focus was the archaic epics. In his dissertation he dealt with Hesiod's writings Theogony and Works and Days . He took an analytical standpoint, from which he divided the works and days into two parts that did not belong together and assumed larger interpolations. He considered the Prometheus stories in the Theogony and the Works and Days to be spurious. Jakob Sitzler argued against his theses in the Berlin philological weekly . In addition, Raddatz wrote articles on behalf of Wilhelm Kroll for the Realencyclopadie of classical antiquity on the keywords Homeros and Hypothesis . Raddatz later dealt with Pomeranian local history and the didactics of Greek lessons .

His son was the secondary school teacher and composer Otto Raddatz (1917–1988).

Fonts (selection)

  • De Promethei fabula Hesiodea et de compositione operum . Greifswald 1909 (dissertation)
  • Homeros . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VIII, 2 (1913), col. 2188-2247
  • Hypothesis . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IX, 1 (1914), col. 414-424
  • Two Homeric Treatises . Schneidemühl 1926 (school program)
  • History of the village of Freudenfier, Kreis Deutsch Krone . In: Grenzmärkische Heimatblätter Schneidemühl . Year 1934, issue 2, pp. 61–101
  • Friedrich von Bülow. 16 years of work for the German East . Schneidemühl 1937
  • Homer reading at high school . Berlin 1940
  • Reading Plato at grammar school . Berlin 1940
  • Reading Thucydides at high school . Berlin 1940

Web links

Wikisource: Georg Raddatz  - Sources and full texts

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c d Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , p. 341 (in the article about his son).
personal data
SURNAME Raddatz, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raddatz, Georg Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Rummelsburg
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1945
Place of death at Königsblick at Schneidemühl