Georg Schepss

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Georg Schepss , also Schepß , (born December 26, 1852 in Schweinfurt , † September 4, 1897 in Speyer ) was a German classical philologist . Schepss was a high school professor at the high school in Speyer .

Life

Georg lost his father, who owned a business, at the age of five. His upbringing was now in the hands of his mother, to whom he had a very close bond. He attended grammar school in Schweinfurt and already showed his fondness for classical antiquity , which was also encouraged by his teacher, Professor Karl Bayer. Schepss later, after Bayer's death, out of gratitude to him, wrote a necrology , which he published in 1886 in the annual report on the progress of classical antiquity . From autumn 1871 he studied classical philology at the University of Erlangen and from Easter 1873 at the University of Strasbourg . He joined the fraternity of the Bubenreuther , to which he was closely connected throughout his life. In spring 1875 he received his doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the Strasbourg University with the dissertation De soloecismo for Dr. phil. At Easter 1875 he attended the University of Munich for a semester and passed the philological state examination in the autumn of the same year.

From 1875 to 1876 Schepss was employed as an assistant at the grammar school in Ansbach . As early as October 1876 he got a job as a study teacher at the Latin School , a Progymnasium , in Dinkelsbühl in Central Franconia . The short stay in the former imperial city was to have a decisive influence on Schepss' entire subsequent writing activity. He studied the manuscripts of the Oettingen-Wallersteinische Bibliothek in the neighboring Maihingen and dealt primarily with the writings of Boethius , the critical treatment of which became his later life's work. The first publications with the title Zwei Maihinger Manuscripts on Sallust and Cicero were published in 1877 and 1878 in the Dinkelsbühl Latin School program. He also rearranged the previously neglected city archive in Dinkelsbühl.

In the spring of 1880 he was transferred to the grammar school in Würzburg . There he found a considerably expanded sphere of activity as a teacher and was able to establish close contacts with the Würzburg University . The University Library of Würzburg with its extensive collection of manuscripts gave Schopss further literary suggestions. In 1881 his work Handwritten Studies on Boethius de consolatione philosophiae appeared in the Würzburg high school program , which gave important suggestions about the old scholias and the commentators of Boethius. The work prompted the Church Fathers Commission of the Vienna Academy to commission Schepss to issue the writings of Boethius for the corpus of the Latin Church Fathers. In preparation for this edition, he traveled to Paris and Munich in 1884 and 1885 to study the manuscripts there. With the large number of Boethius manuscripts, however, he soon convinced himself that the publication of all of Boethius' writings was beyond his strength. In the end he only intended to publish the Consolatio , the Opuscula sacra and Boethius' commentaries on Porphyry and Aristotle , but did not see the completion of this edition.

In 1882 Schepss was co-author of a commemorative publication on the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Würzburg University, in which he presented a manuscript found in Munich, an important source for the prehistory of the Franconian university. In 1886 he worked through all of the parchment manuscripts in the Würzburg University Library for the manuscript catalog prepared by the library administration. A year later he wrote about The oldest Gospel Manuscripts of the Würzburg University Library , which provided important material on the oldest Latin Bible translations. The edition of the heroic poem by Philipp Jakob Hamerer about the Schmalkaldic War , found in a Maihinger manuscript , which appeared in the New Archives for Saxon History in 1884 , and the Dialogus super auctores sive Didascolon by Konrad von Hirsau, which he wrote in Würzburg, also fell during his time in Würzburg High school program published in 1889. Schepss manuscript research had a great success in 1886 with the rediscovery of the literary legacy of the Spanish bishop Priscillianus , Priscillian, a newly found Latin writer of the 4th century , who was executed in Trier in 385 as the head of a heretical sect. The eleven original writings appeared in 1889 in Volume 18 of the Vienna Corpus. Objections raised by Karl Sittl against the authenticity of the Priscillian writings were rejected by Schepss in an essay Pro Priscilliano 1893.

In 1890 Schepss was transferred to Speyer as a high school professor. Here he worked for another seven years. He was mainly concerned with the preparation of his Boethius edition, but also had time for a number of smaller publications, mainly on Latin lexicography and the history of late Latin and patristic literature. He has also written numerous reviews . Georg Schepss died on September 4, 1897, at the age of 44, in Speyer of a liver and bowel disease. He had been married to Wilhelmine Fischer, the daughter of a district judge from Schweinfurt, since 1875. The couple had three children, a daughter and two sons.

Publications (selection)

  • De soloecismo. ( Dissertation ), Strasbourg 1875. ( digitized )
  • Two Maihinger manuscripts. Dinkelsbühl 1878.
  • Antonius Panormita, the author of Commentaries on Plautus. Munich 1880.
  • Handwritten studies on Boethius De consolatione philosophiae. Würzburg 1881. ( Digitized version , program of the Royal University Würzburg for the academic year 1880/81 )
  • Colloquia de scholis Herbipolensibus. ( Festschrift ), Würzburg 1882.
  • Dr. Phil. Jak. Hamerer's heroic poem about the Narrow Kaldic War. Dresden 1884. ( digitized )
  • Priscillian, a newly found 4th century Latin writer. Wuerzburg 1886.
  • The oldest Gospel manuscripts in the Würzburg University Library. Wuerzburg 1887.
  • Dialogus super auctores sive Didascalon. Wuerzburg 1889.
  • Allittering prophecy of Rome's downfall. Munich 1891.
  • To the statutes of the Swan Order. Ansbach 1892.
  • Pro Priscilliano. Vienna 1893.

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