Gottfried Bernhardy

Gottfried Bernhardy (born March 20, 1800 in Landsberg an der Warthe , † May 14, 1875 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German philologist .

Life

Bernhardy was the son of a Jewish merchant. At the age of eleven, Bernhardy came to the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin in 1811 . After successfully completing his degree, Bernhardy enrolled at the University of Berlin in 1817 and was there a. a. Student of the philologists August Böckh , Philipp Karl Buttmann and Friedrich August Wolf .

In 1820, at the urging of his lecturers, Bernhardy became a member of the seminar for learned schools and, as such, was employed as an assistant teacher in Berlin and the surrounding area; u. a. at the Friedrichswerder high school . on October 30, 1822, Bernhardy was able to successfully defend his theses and received his doctorate, and with effect from March 28, 1823 he was appointed associate professor - after having also successfully completed his habilitation . As such, he got a job as a private lecturer at the University of Berlin.

In 1829 he was appointed full professor and Bernhardy was appointed to succeed Karl Christian Reisig at the University of Halle . Bernhardy, as director of the philological seminar there, continued Reisig's work on semasiology and from 1844 headed the university library as librarian . He lived in Halle at Grosse Märkerstrasse 6 .

Bernhardy had been a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences since 1846 and of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences since 1854 and a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 1853 . In 1866 he was accepted as an external corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences . In 1862 he was appointed a secret councilor and died as such at the age of 75 on May 14, 1875 in Halle.

Works (selection)

Scientific syntax of the Greek language . Berlin 1829 (in which he tries to summarize the laws of Greek syntax in their historical development and according to the individual literary genres)
Godofredi Bernhardy Paralipomena Syntaxis Graecae (Hall 1854 and 1862)
Floor plan of Roman literature (Hall 5. Processing, Braunschweig 1869)
Outline of Greek literature: with a comparative overview of the Roman
- Part 1: Inner History of Greek Literature , Halle 1836; 4. Editing 1875
- Part 2: History of Greek Poetry , Halle 1876–80

and the critically and historically excellent edition of

Suidae lexicon . Hall 1834–53 (4 vols.)
Eratosthenica . Berlin 1822 ( Geographi graeci minores vol. 1)
Basics of the Encyclopedia of Philology . Hall 1832 ( digitized )
Small writings by Friedrich August Wolf . Halle 1869 (2 volumes as ed.).

literature

Richard Volkmann: Gottfried Bernhardy. In memory of his life and work . Publisher Anton, Halle / Saale 1887
Friedrich August Eckstein : Bernhardy, Gottfried . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, pp. 462-465.
Bernhardy, Gottfried. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 2: Bend Bins. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-598-22682-9 , pp. 279-284.

Individual evidence

^ Members of the previous academies. Gottfried Bernhardy. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on February 20, 2015 .

↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 37.

↑ Member entry of Gottfried Bernhardy at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 4, 2017.

^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Gottfried Bernhardy. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed July 30, 2015 (in Russian).

Web links

Literature by and about Gottfried Bernhardy in the catalog of the German National Library
Gottfried Bernhardy in the Internet Archive
Entry on Gottfried Bernhardy in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis

personal data
SURNAME	Bernhardy, Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bernhardy, Godofredus; Bernhardi, Godofredus; Bernhardi, Gottfried; Bernhardus, Godofredus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philologist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 20, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH	Landsberg on the Warta
DATE OF DEATH	May 14, 1875
Place of death	Halle (Saale)

[1] Members of the previous academies. Gottfried Bernhardy. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on February 20, 2015 .

[2] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 37.

[3] Member entry of Gottfried Bernhardy at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 4, 2017.

[4] Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Gottfried Bernhardy. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed July 30, 2015 (in Russian).