Gustav Linker

Gustav Linker (born April 27, 1827 in Marburg , † August 24, 1881 in Prague ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Gustav Linker attended the high school in Kassel from 1841 to 1846 and then studied classical philology and history at the university in his hometown . His academic teachers were the philologist Theodor Bergk and the historians Heinrich von Sybel and Georg Waitz . After receiving his doctorate with a thesis on the fragments of the histories of Sallust (1850), Linker went to Berlin University at the suggestion of his teacher Bergk , where he deepened his studies. After a few months he went on to the University of Vienna and completed his habilitation there in 1851.

Linker then worked as a private lecturer and Amanuensis at the library. When Professor Karl Josef Grysar fell ill , Linker took over the management of the philological seminar. Although he accepted an offer from the University of Krakow (1856), he did not take up the position until 1858, when the successor to the now deceased Grysar was secured with the appointment of Johannes Vahlen .

In 1861 the language of instruction in Cracow changed from German to Polish. That is why Linker switched to the University of Lemberg , the language of which was still German at the time. When Polish was introduced as the language of instruction in Lemberg in 1870, Linker switched to the University of Prague . He stayed there until the end of his life.

In his research, Linker was particularly concerned with the historian Sallust, whose works he edited and edited according to indirect tradition. During his time in Vienna he also worked with the poet Horace .

literature

• Carl Haeberlin:  Linker, Gustav . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 1 f.