Hans Pomtow

Hans Rudolf Pomtow (born March 27, 1859 in Berlin ; † March 24, 1925 there ) was a German classical philologist , epigraphist and high school teacher. He is one of the most important early explorers of Delphi .

Life

After occasionally attending the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin, he passed the Abitur examination at the Latin secondary school in Halle in 1877 . He then studied Classical Philology at the University of Berlin , where he received his doctorate on July 18, 1881 with the thesis De oraculis quae exstant Graecis trimetro iambico compositis . On May 23, 1882, he passed the state examination for high school service and served his probationary year in school service from August 1882 to September 1883 at the learned school of the Johanneum in Hamburg.

Since 1884 he occupied himself with the exploration of the ancient Delphi. In July 1887 he was commissioned by the Prussian Academy of Sciences with the publication of the Delphic inscriptions for the Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum and spent long stays in Delphi to collect the material and also carried out excavations there. The practically completed work could not be printed, however, because after the beginning of the French excavations in Delphi in 1892 the French insisted on the publication of the inscriptions and the plan was therefore postponed in November 1899 at the request of the Parisian Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres . As a result, Pomtow had to return to school. Since Easter 1900 he worked as a teacher in Berlin, first at the Royal Wilhelms-Gymnasium , and from 1901 at the Luisengymnasium . In 1906 he was appointed professor .

In addition to his work as a teacher, Pomtow continued to deal with the history, inscriptions and monuments of Delphi and published numerous papers on it, the summary of his studies on the topography of Delphi can be found in his contribution to the Realencyclopedia of Classical Antiquity from 1924.

Pomtow died of a heart condition shortly before the age of 65. He bequeathed his collection of inscriptions to his friend Günther Klaffenbach , who gave them to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

Fonts (selection)

• Poetae lyrici Graeci minores , Volume 1–2, Leipzig 1885 (online: archive.org ).
• Contributions to the topography of Delphi , Berlin 1889 (online: Heidelberg University Library )
• Fasti Delphici
  • I: The Priesthoods , in New Yearbooks for Philology and Pedagogy 139, 1889, pp. 513-578
  • II , in New Year Books for Philology and Education 155, 1897, pp. 737–765, pp. 785–848
  • III, 1: The Delphic Buleuten , in Philologus 57, 1898, pp. 524-563
• The three-sided basis of the Messenians and Naupaktier zu Delphi , in New Yearbooks for Philology and Pedagogy 153, 1896, pp. 505-536.
• Delphoi. To the chronology. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV, 2, Stuttgart 1901, Col. 2583-2700.
• Delphica (also published separately)
  • 1: Preliminary report on the results of a trip to Delphi , in Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift 1906, Sp. 1165–1184.
  • 2: Report on the results of a new trip to Delphi , in Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift 1909, Sp. 155 ff. And 763 ff.
  • 3: Report on the results of a third trip , in Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift 1911, Sp. 1547–1912, Sp. 28 ff. And 923 ff.
• Studies of the votive gifts and the topography of Delphi
  • 1: Up to Lysander's monument for Aigospotamoi , in communications from the Imperial German Archaeological Institute, Athenian Department 31, 1906, pp. 437–564.
  • 2: Up to the Thesaurus of Sikyon, excl. In: Klio 7, 1907 a. 8, 1908.
• The ancient Tholos and the Treasury of the Sicyonians at Delphi . In: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Architektur 3, 1910, pp. 97–143, pp. 153–192.
• [ Editing of the Delphic inscriptions. ] In: Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum , third edition, Volume I, 1915 [betw. Pp. 5 and 780, between No. 5 and 534], Volume II, 1917 [between. P. 4 and 622, between No. 538 and 903]. Also published separately as Tituli Delphici I − II with 8 p. Addenda et Corrigenda Delphica (not printed in the SIG) .
• The Paionios-Nike in Delphi . In: Yearbook of the German Archaeological Institute 37, 1922, pp. 55–112.
• Delphoi, The Topography. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Supplement volume IV, Stuttgart 1924, Col. 1189-1432.

literature

• Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen : Obituary for Hans Pomtow . In: Klio 20, 1926, pp. 127-128
• Franz Kössler: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century. Professional biographies from school annual reports and school programs 1825–1918 , Volume Paalhorn - Pyrkosch, Preprint Giessen 2007 (PDF; 4.2 MB)
• Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg : The German-French collaboration in the edition of the inscriptions by Delos , in S'écrire et écrire sur l'antiquité: l'apport des correspondances à l'histoire des travaux scientifiques , Grenoble 2008, p. 229– 246
• Klaus Hallof : "but that is precisely why it is an academic task." The Greek inscription work of the Berlin Academy in the 2nd half of the 19th century . In: Annette M. Baertschi, Colin G. King (ed.): The modern fathers of antiquity. The Development of Classical Studies at the Academy and University in 19th Century Berlin . Berlin / New York 2009, pp. 423–444

Web links

Wikisource: Hans Pomtow  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Hans Pomtow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Personal form from Hans Pomtow in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)