Gottfried Seebode

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Joachim Dietrich Gottfried Seebode (born November 8, 1792 in Salzwedel , † February 18, 1868 in Wiesbaden ) was a German classical philologist, grammar school director and librarian. He worked as a teacher and headmaster in Hildesheim (1813–1834), Coburg (1834–1838) and Gotha (1838–1841), as a councilor and advisor for the school system in Wiesbaden (1841–1849) and most recently as senior librarian and head of the ducal family public library there (1851–1867).

In addition to his varied official tasks, Seebode was also active in science and journalism. He published Latin and Greek text editions, textbooks for school as well as studies on text criticism and transmission of various ancient authors and edited various magazines.

Life

Gottfried Seebode attended high school in Salzwedel and studied classical philology in Halle , Berlin and Göttingen . Shortly after graduating as Dr. phil. at the University of Göttingen habilitation he there in the fall of 1812 and held as a private lectures on the winter semester 1812/13 Tacitus ' writings Germanicus and Agricola from. In the same year, 1813, he was appointed to the Andreanum grammar school in Hildesheim , where he was rector (second teacher) for ten years. When the director Julius Billerbeck resigned in 1823, Seebode was his successor and managed the Andreanum for eleven years with great success. In 1834 he moved to the Casimirianum grammar school in Coburg as director . In this capacity and as a member of the consistory, he made outstanding contributions to the reform of the grammar school. He also gave private lessons to the Hereditary Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , who later became the Prince Consort of Queen Victoria . In 1838 he switched to the Illustrious Gymnasium in Gotha as director , where he also made a contribution to the school library, which he revised in 1840.

Even then, Seebode was committed to education policy for the whole of Germany, whose tasks included uniform regulations for school-leaving examinations and admission to study in the various German states. In 1838 Seebode published a comparative study on the applicable regulations on school leaving examinations, and in particular went into the current Prussian regulations. Due to his knowledge and practical experience as a school principal, the Duchy of Nassau appointed him to the Secret Government Council and advisor for the school system in the government of the Duchy of Nassau in Wiesbaden at Easter 1841 .

In his new position, Seebode had many arguments and little success. In 1849 he resigned, but initially remained a member of the Nassau government. From 1850 he published the Allgemeine Nassauische Schulblatt , a magazine that reported on developments in the school system. On March 15, 1850, Seebode was employed in the ministerial department as a technical assistant for the school subject.

On January 14, 1851, Seebode left the government and went to the ducal public library in Wiesbaden , which he headed as senior librarian until 1867. He had acquired the necessary knowledge through his scientific and editorial work. Seebode gradually developed the cameralist library into a universal library that not only met the needs of government officials, but also of science. The Russian National Library made Seebode an honorary correspondent.

In October 1867, shortly before his 75th birthday, Seebode retired. He died six months later. His academic estate went to the ducal public library in Wiesbaden.

Scientific work

Seebode was scientifically active throughout his career. Its productivity was greatest in the Hildesheim period (1813–1834); in the course of his life his research focus shifted.

Based on studies of the Roman historian Tacitus , whose writings Agricola and Dialogus de oratoribus he published in 1812 and 1813, Seebode came on the one hand to the classical Greek historian Thucydides (1815 edition, 2nd edition 1818), and on the other hand to the imperial Roman historian Eutropius , whose demolition of Roman history ( Breviarium ab urbe condita ) was popular as school reading at that time. Seebode published this work in 1817 together with a dictionary; the edition saw a second and 1828 a third edition.

In addition, Seebode dealt with Roman poetry. As early as 1814 he published an edition of Greek translations of Virgil's Aeneid , which Georg Litzel and Eugenios Voulgaris had made in the 18th century. In 1822 and 1823, together with the Brunswick high school director Friedrich Traugott Friedemann, he published two collections, Miscellanea maximam partem critica , which dealt with ancient writers (mainly poets) and their text transmission.

From 1819 Seebode published the journal Critical Library for Schools and Education , in which literature reports and short scientific treatises appeared. In 1831 he combined them with the yearbooks for philology and pedagogy of the Leipzig high school director Johann Christian Jahn . The new journal was entitled New Yearbooks for Philology and Education or Critical Library for Schools and Education (short as "Jahns Jahrbücher"); Seebode ran the editorial team together with Jahn until 1842.

Seebode's research received new impulses in Gotha, where he discovered Greek and Latin manuscripts in the holdings of the grammar school library, in which previously unknown texts had been preserved. Seebode published these texts and made them the basis of further studies, especially his scholia on Q. Horatius Flaccus (1839, 1846). Seebode also published a previously unknown work by the Byzantine scholar Michael Psellos , Brief solutions to scientific questions ( ἐπιλύσεις σύντομοι φυσικῶν ζητημάτων ) from a Gotha Codex (1840, 1857).

Fonts (selection)

  • C. Cornelii Taciti Agricola in usum praelectionum edidit Godofredus Seebode . Goettingen 1812
  • C. Cornelii Taciti Dialogus de oratoribus in usum scholarum suarum recensuit et varietatem lectionis adjecit Godofredus Seebode . Goettingen 1813
  • Georgii Lizelii Spirae olim conrectoris specimen Graecae interpretationis Virgilii Aeneïdos. Recudi curavit atque Eugenii Bulgaris Graecam horum versuum versionem apposuit D. Godofredus Seebode, gymnasii Hildesiensis rector . Hanover 1814
  • Thucydidis de bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo. Graece edidit Godofredus Seebode. Tomus prior textum continens . Leipzig 1815. 2nd edition 1818
  • Eutropii Breviarium historiae Romanae. Edited from CH Tzschucke's last text review and with a complete dictionary on school use . Hannover 1817. 2nd edition 1824. 3rd edition 1828
  • with Friedrich Traugott Friedemann: Miscellanea maximam partem critica. Vol. I . Hildesheim 1822
  • with Friedrich Traugott Friedemann: Miscellanea maximam partem critica. Vol. II . Wittenberg / London / Paris / Strasbourg 1823
  • School hymn book. Initially for the royal Andreanian high school . Hildesheim 1826. 2nd edition 1829
  • Contributions to a comparative criticism of the ordinances issued by the German federal states on the Matura exams, especially the last Königl. Prussian regulations. First issue . Coburg 1838
  • Scholia to Q. Horatius Flaccus. First issue . Gotha 1839
  • Μιχαὴλ Ψέλλου ἐπιλύσεις σύντομοι φυσικῶν ζητημάτων. Quibus nunc primum editis memoriam artis typographicae ante hos quadringentos annos feliciter inventae . Gotha 1840
  • Scholia to Q. Horatius Flaccus. Second issue . Wiesbaden 1846
  • Μιχαὴλ Ψέλλου ἐπιλύσεις σύντομοι φυσικῶν ζητημάτων. A festive offering made with love and gratitude to his esteemed and well-deserved teacher August Boeckh to celebrate his fiftieth doctor's jubilee on March 15, 1857 . Wiesbaden 1857

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Gottfried Seebode  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Didaskalia. Leaves for mind, spirit and publicity . No. 139, May 19, 1841, unpaginated (p. 2).
  2. ^ Didaskalia. Leaves for mind, spirit and publicity . No. 139, May 19, 1841, unpaginated (p. 2). See C. Gray (Ed.): The Early Years of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort . London 1867, pp. 124-128; 401-403.
  3. ^ Literary newspaper . No. 50, December 12, 1838, p. 943.
personal data
SURNAME Seebode, Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seebode, Joachim Dietrich Gottfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist, grammar school director and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzwedel
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1868
Place of death Wiesbaden