Gottfried Kinkel (philologist)

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Gottfried Kinkel (born July 11, 1844 in Poppelsdorf , today in Bonn , † May 22, 1891 ibid) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Gottfried Kinkel was the eldest son of the art historian, publicist and politician Gottfried Kinkel (1815–1882) and the composer Johanna Kinkel , née Mockel (1810–1858). He had three younger siblings: Johanna (1845–1863), Adelheid (1846–1928, married to Adolf von Asten) and Hermann (1848–1897).

From 1846 Kinkel's father was associate professor for art and literary history at the University of Bonn . During the revolution of 1848/1849 he was one of the most prominent representatives of the democratic movement. After his participation in the Baden-Palatinate uprising (1849), he was arrested in Rastatt and sentenced to life imprisonment. After his transfer to Spandau prison (1850), he was released from prison on the initiative of his wife Johanna and his friend Carl Schurz in November 1850 and fled to London , where his wife and four children followed him in January 1851. After her untimely death (1858), Gottfried Kinkel senior married Minna Werner (1827–1917) in 1860, with whom he fathered five more children, three of whom reached adulthood.

Gottfried Kinkel junior studied classical philology at the University of Zurich . There he was particularly influenced by the philologist Hermann Köchly (1815–1876), who, like his father, went into exile after the revolutionary years and had taught in Zurich since 1851. When Köchly accepted an offer at Heidelberg University for the summer semester of 1864 , Kinkel went with him. Hugo Stadtmüller was one of his fellow students in Heidelberg . Probably on Köchly's advice, Kinkel went to the University of Leipzig for a few semesters in 1865 , where he belonged to the Philological Association together with Friedrich Nietzsche and Erwin Rohde . After graduating as Dr. phil. Kinkel returned to Heidelberg University for the summer semester of 1866, where he prepared his dissertation on the Hesiod manuscripts of the English libraries for printing.

After completing his studies, Kinkel went to teach at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich in 1866 , where his father had received a professorship for archeology and art history that same year. In 1867 , Kinkel junior qualified as a professor at the University of Zurich and since then has given regular lectures on Greek literature and history as well as English history and politics (until 1890). He continued his scientific work, which was initially aimed primarily at the poet Hesiod, but gradually spread to other epic poets . However, no academic career was on the horizon. In 1869, Köchly proposed him, along with others, for a professorship at the University of Basel , which Friedrich Nietzsche then received.

Kinkel's most ambitious project was a collection of fragments from the Greek epics. The first volume, which reached up to the time of Alexander the Great , appeared in 1877 and was judged rather negatively by experts. The other volumes, which would have included the epic poets of Hellenism , the Imperial Era and Late Antiquity , did not appear. In the 1970s, Kinkel was also busy editing Köchly's small writings, which he had already supported with his Hesiod edition (1870).

After the death of his father (1882), Kinkel junior took over his estate, which he worked on intensively and partly published. He died on the night of May 22nd to 23rd, 1891 in Poppelsdorf. His own estate and that of his father ended up in the archives of the University and State Library in Bonn .

Fonts (selection)

  • De codicibus Hesiodeis nonnullis in Anglia asservatis . Heidelberg 1866 (dissertation)
  • with Hermann Köchly: Hesiodea quae supersunt omnia . Leipzig 1870
  • The transmission of the paraphrase of the Gospel of John of Nonnos . Zurich 1870
  • Selected tragedies by Euripides declared for school use. First volume: Phönissen . Berlin 1871
  • Euripides and the fine arts. A contribution to the history of Greek literature and art . Berlin 1871
  • Epicorum Graecorum fragmenta . Leipzig 1877
  • Lycophronis Alexandra. Recensuit, scholia vetera codicis Marciani addidit Godofredus Kinkel . Leipzig 1880
Editing
  • Karl Bernhard Stark: Lectures and essays from the field of archeology . Leipzig 1880
  • Arminii Koechly Opuscula philologica. Volume I: Opuscula Latina . Leipzig 1881 ( Hermann Köchly's Collected Small Philological Writings 1)

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Gottfried Kinkel  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matriculation on April 21, 1864: Toepke (1907) 489.
  2. ^ Friedrich Nietzsche: Collected letters . Volume 2 (2010), p. 244; see. also p. 18 there.
  3. ^ Toepke (1907) 489.
  4. ^ Johannes Stroux : Nietzsche's professorship in Basel. Jena 1925, p. 21f.
  5. ↑ The judgment of Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (“Sudelarbeit”: Homeric investigations . Berlin 1884, p. 345, note 6; “Sudelausgabe”: Memoirs 1848–1914 . Leipzig 1928, p. 134), which involves personal animosities, is particularly blatant is mixed. Cf. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff: Homer's Ilias (lecture WS 1887/1888 Göttingen) , edited and commented by Paul Dräger . 2nd, supplemented edition, Hildesheim 2008, s. 62; 157; 160; 165.
personal data
SURNAME Kinkel, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Poppelsdorf
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1891
Place of death Poppelsdorf