Gottfried Ernst Groddeck

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Groddeck on an engraving by Michał Podoliński (1821)

Gottfried Ernst Groddeck (Polish: Bogumił Ernest Grodek , Russian: Годфрид Эрнест Гроддек , Latinized: Gotfrydas Ernestas Grodekas ; born November 17, 1762 in Danzig ; † 1825 in Raków ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Gottfried Ernst Groddeck came from an old Silesian family who fled to the Gdansk region around 1630 due to their Protestant belief. From her came high school professors at the Academic High School Danzig such as Gabriel Groddeck and the orientalist Benjamin Groddeck , father of Gottfried Ernst Groddeck. In addition, the family produced mayors and councilors of Gdansk, as well as other eminent people. His mother was the merchant's daughter Beate Constantin, née Ehlert. He moved to the academic high school, where the high school professor Johann Georg Trendelenburg made a lasting impression on him. That is why he began studying at the University of Göttingen , where he heard from Christian Gottlob Heyne . In 1786 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the fragments of the Homeric hymns . Probably after that he gave his first lectures at the university. Nevertheless, he left the university in 1787 when, through the agency of Johann Gottfried Herder, after his request to Heyne, he became tutor for classical philology with Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski in Pulawy . He stayed there until 1797 and then moved to Prince Lubomirski in Ladshut and then became a librarian in Pulawy. During this time he came into contact with many European scholars. He married Joanna d'Edling († 1814) in Pulawy in 1789. The couple has several children, two of whom reached adulthood. In 1804 Groddeck was appointed professor of Greek language and literature and university librarian at the renewed Vilnius University.

Groddeck's time as a professor at the university is considered one of the highlights of classical philology in Lithuania. Groddeck in Poland is also considered to be the creator of the national classical philology. In addition, the university, which emerged from a Jesuit academy, had to be built up with modest means. He was dean, member of the committee for statutes, for censorship and textbooks, since the university was subordinate to the school system, and held other functions. He was also the Imperial Russian State Councilor. He founded the philological seminary, which he led without further payment, and built up the philological library. He gave his lectures in Latin . This course in the philological encyclopedia included hermeneutics with textology , numismatics , epigraphy and geography . He wrote several monographs, including Initia historiae Graecorum litterariae (two volumes, 1821-1823). He also wrote articles and reviews for German magazines . The focus of his research was the history and theory of the classical written tradition. In addition, he dealt with the geographical systems of ancient times by Johann Heinrich Voss . 74 printed and 14 handwritten scientific papers have been preserved. The Jagiellonian Library in Cracow has 553 letters addressed to him in German, Polish, French, English, Italian and Latin, which give eloquent information about the far-reaching relationships of Groddeck. The admiration of his students for their teacher was expressed in the fact that they had a bronze bust made of him at their expense in 1821. This was designed after a painting that his co-professor Rustern had made. The Latin inscription said "In gratitude to your teacher for his services, also as a friend and person ..." .

literature

  • Wiadomość o życiu i pismach Gotfryda Ernesta Grodka / Odbitka , in: Spraw. wydz. filolog. Akad. Umiejęt. w Krakowie , Vol. IV. Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Krakow 1876.
  • Conrad Bursian :  Groddeck, Gottfried Ernst . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 707 f.
  • Stefan Młodecki: Gotfryd Ernest Groddeck. Studium biograficzne na podstawie notat Mikołaja Malinowskiego , In: Pamiętnik Biblioteki Kórnickiej 6, 1956, pp. 301–350.
  • Anton Szantyr :  Groddeck, Ernst Gottfried. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 103 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Wileński słownik biograficzny . Bydgoszcz 2002, ISBN 83-87865-28-1 .
  • Kazimiera Żukowska: Wychowankowie Uniwersytetu Wileńskiego w świetle korespondencji, wspomnień . Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warsaw 2008.
  • Ekkehard Ochs, Peter Tenhaef, Walter Werbeck, Lutz Winkler (eds.): University and music in the Baltic region. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2009.
  • Hans Rothe: Gottfried Ernst Groddeck and his correspondents . Berlin / New York 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-040658-0

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So the vast majority of the sources, especially contemporary ones; ADB has 1824, NDB 1823.
personal data
SURNAME Groddeck, Gottfried Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Groddeck, Gotfryd Ernest; Гроддек, Готфрид Эрнст; Grodekas, Gotfrydas Ernestas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH 1825
Place of death Raków