Georg Rohde

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Georg Rohde (born December 23, 1899 in Berlin ; † October 21, 1960 there ) was a German classical philologist .

Rohde came from a humble background, his father was a tram conductor in Berlin and the family was Catholic. Rohde - who was destined for the priesthood by his parents - was only able to attend the renowned grammar school at the Gray Monastery in Berlin, where his love for antiquity and classical languages ​​was awakened.

Rohde studied classical philology in Berlin and Marburg , and during his studies he worked as a student trainee. Through his friend Friedrich Wolters , a professor in Marburg, Rohde had come into contact with the poetry of Stefan George , but he never belonged to the inner George circle . His dissertation on Virgil in 1924 was judged extremely favorably. After completing his doctorate, Rohde stayed in Marburg , first as an assistant at the philological seminar, later as head of the preparatory courses for the large and small Latinum . The habilitation on the cult statutes of the Roman pontifices followed in 1931. In 1932 he was given the chair of his teacher Paul Friedländer .

The year 1933 marked a turning point in Rohde's life: a further academic career in Germany was made impossible for him because his wife Irmgard Rohde (1898–1979), a daughter of Siegfried Kalischer , was Jewish. He was advised to obtain divorce - a path that was not viable for the staunch Catholic. In November 1933 he was one of the signatories of the professors' commitment at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state . In 1935, on the recommendation of the philologist Eduard Norden , Rohde received a call to Ankara , where he founded an institute for classical philology and the associated library at the university that was being established. In addition, Rohde devoted himself to intensive translation work in Ankara; Together with his student Azra Erhat , he published the literature series Dünya Edebiyatından Tercümeler (translations from the literary world), which is still very popular today , in which most of the Greek philosophers first appeared in Turkish. In exile in Turkey, Rohde became close friends with Ernst Reuter (SPD), who later became the governing mayor of Berlin.

At Reuter's instigation, Rohde was appointed to the newly founded Free University of Berlin as the first classical philologist in 1949, where he worked until his death. In the university year 1952/53 he was elected Rector of the FU, in 1954/1955 Vice Rector.

Works

  • De Vergili eclogarum forma et indole. Ebering, Berlin 1925 (dissertation).
  • The life of St. Porphyry, Bishop of Gaza. Bard, Berlin 1927.
  • The meaning of the temple foundations in the state life of the Romans. Elwert, Marburg 1932.
  • The cult charter of the Roman ponitifices. Töpelmann, Berlin 1936.
  • with Walther G. Oschilewski , Arno Scholz : Ernst Reuter . A life for freedom and humanity. Arani, Berlin-Grunewald 1954.
  • Studies and interpretations of ancient literature, religion and history. Edited by Irmgard Rohde and Bernhard Kytzler . De Gruyter, Berlin 1963.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ The friendship with Wolters noted Michael Landmann , Friedrich Wolters. 1876–1930 , in: Michael Landmann, Figures around George , Volume 2, Castrum Peregrini Presse, Amsterdam 1988, pp. 23–36, here p. 28f.
  2. ↑ Helmut Viebrock , My Marburg apprenticeship with Georg and Irmgard Rohde , in: Hans-Joachim Zimmermann (ed.), The Effect of Stefan George on Science, gives an impression of Rohde as a teacher in Marburg . A symposium , Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, Heidelberg 1985, pp. 105-108.
personal data
SURNAME Rohde, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rohde, Georg Julius Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1960
Place of death Berlin