Gerhard Scheibner (classical philologist)

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Gerhard Rudolf Scheibner (born May 4, 1912 in Dresden ; † October 1, 1994 in Naumburg ) was a German classical philologist and translator.

Life

Scheibner, son of the councilor Otto Scheibner and Ella Schnauder, first attended elementary school and a private school in Dresden, then from 1922 the Gymnasium zum Heiligen Kreuz , where his teacher Erich Burck aroused his interest in classical philology . He received his Abitur at Easter 1931 and began his teaching degree in Latin, Greek and German at the University of Leipzig , where he studied until 1937 (interrupted by a stay at the University of Tübingen in the summer semester of 1932). The seminars and lectures given by Friedrich Klingner , Alfred Körte and Wolfgang Schadewaldt in Classical Philology and by Theodor Frings and Konstantin Reichardt in German Studies were particularly formative for Scheibner .

On April 30, 1937, Scheibner passed the state examination for teaching at secondary schools and taught in October 1937 as a trainee teacher at the Vitzthumschen Gymnasium in Dresden. In June 1938 he moved to the Markgraf Otto School in Freiberg and in October 1938, after completing his legal clerkship, to the municipal high school for boys in Zwickau . He later taught in Altenberg , after the Second World War, among other things, at the Church Proseminar in Naumburg .

Scheibner's lifelong preoccupation with the works of Homer began while he was still a student in Leipzig . Since the spring of 1935 he worked at Schadewaldt on his doctoral dissertation on the subject of the structure of the 20th and 21st books of the Iliad , in May 1939 he received his doctorate with it. His translations of Homer's Iliad (published 1972) and Odyssey (published 1986) became his main and life work . Along with the translations of Schadewaldt, they are considered to be the most successful German prose versions of the Homeric epics. On October 31, 1983, Scheibner was awarded the Lion Feuchtwanger Prize of the GDR Academy of the Arts for translating the Iliad .

Scheibner lived with his family in Naumburg / Saale . His grave is in the evangelical cemetery St. Othmar. The University Library of Erfurt acquired part of his private library after his death .

Works

  • The structure of the 20th and 21st books of the Iliad . Robert Noske, Borna-Leipzig 1939 (= Phil. Diss. From May 10, 1939, Leipzig).
  • An unknown Philitas fragment in the Berlin papyrus collection (= lecture at the Dyskolos Colloquium, Jena, January 31, 1962). In: Friedrich Zucker (ed.): Menanders Dyskolos as a testimony to his epoch . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1965, pp. 103-114 (= writings of the Section for Classical Studies 50).
    • Addendum: To the Berolin Papyrus. 13873 . In: Philologus 111: 1/2 (1967), pp. 129-132.
  • Epilogue to: Homer: Iliad . Transferred from Johann Heinrich Voss . 7th edition, Reclam, Leipzig 1964 (= Reclams Universal Library 249).
  • Epilogue to: Homer: Odyssey . Transferred from Johann Heinrich Voss. 9th edition, Reclam, Leipzig 1964 (= Reclams Universal Library 280).
  • An attempt to determine the time and place of origin of the final form of the Odyssey . In: Scientific journal of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena 14 (1965), pp. 93–96.
  • Classical poetry in the ancient Orient and in antiquity. Epic of Gilgamesh and Homer . In: The problem of the classics in the ancient Orient and in antiquity . Diss. Berolinenses 3, Berlin 1967, pp. 124–140 (= minutes of the conference in Halle from February 10 to 12, 1966).
  • Homerus: Iliad . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin and Weimar 1972 (prose transmission, 2 volumes, illustrated by Werner Klemke ).
  • Homerus: Odyssey . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin and Weimar 1986, ISBN 3-351-00146-0 (prose transmission, 2 volumes, illustrated by Peter Nagengast ).
    • Paperback edition of both translations: Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin and Weimar 1989, ISBN 3-351-01397-3 (= pocket library of world literature).
    • Paperback edition of both translations: Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-7466-6063-7 (Iliad) and ISBN 3-7466-6064-5 (Odyssey) (= Aufbau-Bibliothek 6063/6064).

literature

  • Jürgen Werner : Laudation to Gerhard Scheibner . In: Philologus 128 (1984), pp. 293-302 (= laudation for the award of the Lion Feuchtwanger Prize).

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Erfurt University Library: Annual Report 1995, p. 14. ( pdf )
personal data
SURNAME Scheibner, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheibner, Gerhard Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1994
Place of death Naumburg (Saale)