Hans Flach

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Photography by Hans Flach. From the 2nd edition of his work The German Professor of the Present (1886).

Hans Flach , actually Johannes Louis Moritz Flach (born March 1, 1845 in Pillau , today Baltijsk, † September 16, 1895 in Hamburg ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Hans Flach was the son of the garrison auditor Moritz Flach and his wife Luise, née Hay. After his father was transferred to Posen (1849), Flach attended the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium there (under Julius Sommerbrodt ). After graduation, he began to study classical philology at the University of Königsberg in 1864 , where Karl Lehrs said that he in particular had moved. In 1867 he received his doctorate with the dissertation De veteris Graecorum hexametri hiatu et digammo , after the senior teacher examination in 1868 he became a high school teacher in Elbing .

Flax's goal was an academic career. In 1874 he completed his habilitation in Tübingen and was appointed associate professor there in 1877. After his efforts to obtain a full professorship were unsuccessful, Flach published a pamphlet after a deferment in 1885 under the title The Academic Teaching of the Present , which appeared in three further editions in 1886, 1887 and 1888. The sensation that the writing caused in Tübingen prompted Flach to leave the university. At the same time his work to have been Hesiod of Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff reviewed devastating. Flach first moved to Rudolstadt , where he worked on the editorial team of the German Encyclopedia . In 1888 he moved to Hamburg as a freelance writer and journalist . His writings on the grievances of the academic and school system of his time exaggerated the truth and clearly showed Flax's bitterness. That is why they were largely rejected because of their explosiveness. Flach died as an editor of the Hamburger Generalanzeiger in 1895.

His philological studies related particularly to the explanation and textual criticism of Hesiod and the Greek lexicographers. His extensive work History of Greek Poetry appeared in two volumes from 1883 to 1884 and earned him honorary membership in the ἑλληνικὸς σύλλογος φιλολογικός to Constantinople . Flach also published stories and short stories under cover names ( Ancient Greek Novellas , 1886; Sappho , 1886).

Fonts (selection)

  • The dialectical Digamma of Hesiodos, Berlin 1876
  • The Greek Theater , 1878
  • Hesiodus: Carmina , 1878
  • Studies on Eudokia and Suidas, Leipzig 1879
  • Biographoi graeci qui from Hesychio pendent , 1883
  • Württemberg and Philology , 1884
  • Peisistratos and his literary activity , 1885
  • The Academic Carrière of the Present , 1885
  • Agape , 1885
  • Culturbilder from Württemberg / from a North German , ²1886 (anonymous)
  • The German Professor of the Present, Leipzig ²1886
  • Contemporary School Questions , 1888
  • A sinking generation , 1889

literature

  • Entry in: Old Prussian biography , edited by Christian Krollmann. Volume 1 (1941), p. 305.
  • Autobiography in: Hinrichsen, Adolf: Das literäre Deutschland . 2nd edition 1891.

Web links

Wikisource: Hans Flach  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contemporary Academic Teaching on Wikisource
personal data
SURNAME Flat, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flach, Johannes Louis Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Pillau
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1895
Place of death Hamburg