Hans Rubenbauer

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Hans Rubenbauer (born December 10, 1885 in Amberg ; † July 27, 1963 in Munich ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

The son of an economist from the Upper Palatinate studied classical philology in Munich , first to take up the profession of teacher. During his studies in 1909 he worked as the author of some fascicles for the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae , which his university teacher Friedrich Vollmer had been general editor. In 1912 he was charged with a study on the construction of the iambic trimeter in Menander Dr. phil. PhD.

He then worked as a high school teacher in Regensburg, Dillingen , Amberg and from 1922 in Munich. Here he resumed his work on the thesaurus at the same time. In the same year Rubenbauer completed his habilitation in Munich and from then on also worked as a private lecturer at the university. In 1933 he was made a non-civil servant professor, and in 1939 he was made an extraordinary professor of Latin philology. Although Rubenbauer joined the NSDAP around 1938 , he was an opponent of National Socialism. After the death of Bernhard Rehm , he took over the management of the thesaurus from 1942 to 1947. After his retirement in 1956, Rubenbauer devoted himself increasingly to work on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, both as an author and as an editor.

As a university professor, Rubenbauer dealt primarily with poetry and Roman literature of the imperial era (especially Catullus ) as well as Latin stylistics, to which he devoted several systematic presentations. In addition, he undertook several metric studies, influenced by his teacher Otto Crusius . a. about the trochaic tetrameter in the newer comedy . In 1955 he revised the Roman Metric by Friedrich Crusius , son of his teacher Otto Crusius, for the second edition .

However, his studies on grammar achieved particular importance . Together with his friend and long-time colleague Johann Baptist Hofmann , with whom he had already started working on the thesaurus in 1909, Rubenbauer wrote the Latin school grammar in 1929 . Although initially conceived as a school grammar, the grammar quickly found dissemination at universities due to its systematics and innovations and is still used today as a standard work (in the 12th edition revised by Rolf Heine ) at German universities. The grammar differed in essential points from other Latin grammars and thus represented a new type of textbook: In addition to quantity designations and stylistic and metrical appendices, it only contained grammatical examples from original texts instead of artificial sentences.

In 1950 Rubenbauer published another standard scientific work with Hofmann, the dictionary of grammatical and metrical terminology . In addition, he was primarily interested in Latin lessons and, in addition to simplified school grammars and text editions (including Cicero's letters), he also designed textbooks for school lessons.

In the last years of his life, Hans Rubenbauer's health deteriorated increasingly. He last suffered a stroke and died in Munich on July 27, 1963, exactly nine years to the day after his friend and companion JB Hofmann.

Fonts (selection)

  • 1929 Latin school grammar based on linguistic science (with JB Hofmann), Munich: Oldenbourg.
  • 1938 Latin grammar (with Karl Enzinger), Bamberg: Buchners.
  • 1942 Lectiones Latinae. Latin textbook and reading book for the second grade of grammar school , Bamberg: Buchners.
  • 1948 Lectiones Latinae. Latin grammar .
  • 1948 Brief Latin grammar (with JB Hofmann), Munich: Leibniz.
  • 1950 Dictionary of grammatical and metrical terminology (together with JB Hofmann), Heidelberg: Winter.
  • 1955 Friedrich Crusius: Römische Metrik , revision for the second edition, Munich: Hueber.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A new beginning after the Third Reich. The resumption of scientific work at the Ludwig Maximilians University and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Diary entries of the classical philologist Albert Rehm 1945 to 1946 . Hamburg 2009, p. 61.
personal data
SURNAME Rubenbauer, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH On the mountain
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1963
Place of death Munich