Gustav Turk

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Gustav Türk (born April 6, 1870 in Kreuzburg OS ; died 1948 in Cosel ) was a German classical philologist , classical archaeologist , librarian and high school teacher .

Gustav Türk, son of Gustav Türk and Bertha Türk, née Golka, attended school from 1876, and from 1879 the grammar school in Ratibor , where his parents had moved. He passed his Abitur in 1888 under the chairmanship of Richard Thiele . He then studied classical philology and archeology at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau , where he received his doctorate in 1894 with a dissertation on Hylas , Herakles' companion in Greek mythology , and passed the philological state examination for teaching. First essays followed. From 1898 he was a librarian at the Wroclaw City Library , but in 1904 he switched to high school as a senior teacher.

During his time as a librarian, Türk began to contribute to Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher's Detailed Lexicon of Greek and Roman Mythology and continued this as a teacher until the fifth volume published in 1924. In addition to numerous smaller articles, he contributed extensive adaptations, for example to the Lemmata Paris , Philoctetes and Phoinix . His philological and archaeological contributions to Greek mythology were not without controversy at the time and his dissertation was already sharply reviewed by Georg Knaack, who was a little older, in the Göttingen scholars advertisements . From the end of the 1920s he worked on lemmas for Paulys Realencyclopadie der Classischen Antiquity , a collaboration that lasted until 1940.

In 1907 he set a monument to the former professor of classical philology and archeology in Breslau, August Rossbach , in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie . With Alfons Hilka , Konrad Wutke , Franz Skutsch , Richard Wünsch and Konrat Ziegler - all philologists working in Breslau at the time - he published the catalog of the classic Latin codices of the Wroclaw City Library in 1915 . In addition, Türk made contributions to the history of Wroclaw and Silesia, for example together with Konrad Wutke, whose list of publications he also compiled in 1941.

Publications (selection)

  • De Hyla. Pars I. Dissertatio inauguralis philologica (= Breslauer Philological Treatises. Volume 7, Issue 4). Koebner, Breslau 1894 ( digitized version ).

literature

  • Alfred Rüffler: The Wroclaw City Library as reflected in memory: history, holdings, research facility (= sources and representations of Silesian history. Volume 28). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1997, p. 72.

Web links

Wikisource: Gustav Türk  - Sources and full texts

Remarks

  1. ↑ Gustav Türk: Aristipps Epistemology. In: Satura Viadrina. Festschrift for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Philological Society of Breslau. Breslau 1896, pp. 89-94 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ); To the representations of Hylas. In: Yearbook of the Imperial German Archaeological Institute . Volume 12, 1897, pp. 86-91 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Georg Knaack in: Göttingische learned advertisements. 1896, pp. 867-888.
  3. ↑ Alfons Hilka, Franz Skutsch, Gustav Türk, Richard Wünsch, Konrat Ziegler: Catalogus codicum Latinorum classicorum qui in Bibliotheca urbica Wratislaviensi adservantur. M. & H. Marcus, Breslau 1915.
  4. ^ Gustav Türk: Latin poems in praise of Breslau. In: Journal of the Association for History and Antiquity of Silesia . Volume 36, 1902, pp. 101-120.
  5. ^ Gustav Türk, Konrad Wutke: The members of the family Gruttschreiber in older times. With a family tree. In: Journal of the Association for History and Antiquity of Silesia. Volume 75, 1941, pp. 17-27.
  6. ^ Gustav Türk: Writings by Konrad Wutke. In: Journal of the Association for History and Antiquity of Silesia. Volume 75, 1941, pp. 3-11.
personal data
SURNAME Türk, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist, classical archaeologist, librarian and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Kreuzburg OS
DATE OF DEATH 1948
Place of death Cosel