Hans Wegehaupt

Hans Wegehaupt (full name Johannes Max Emanuel Wegehaupt , born September 5, 1872 in Breslau , † November 16, 1914 in Soldau ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher.

Life

Hans Wegehaupt was the son of the classical philologist and grammar school teacher Wilhelm Wegehaupt (1845-1917), who taught at the Maria Magdalenen grammar school in Breslau. His father switched to the high school in Mönchengladbach in 1878 and in 1881 as rector at the high school in Neuwied , which Hans Wegehaupt attended from 1881 to Easter 1890. After graduating from high school, he started studying classical philology, initially for three semesters in Kiel , where his father ran the grammar school from 1890 to 1892. From the winter semester 1891/92 to the winter semester 1892/93 he studied at the University of Breslau and from the summer semester 1893 at the University of Göttingen , where he was influenced by Friedrich Leo and Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff . At Wilamowitz's suggestion, he dealt with the Greek literature of the imperial era and wrote a dissertation on Dion Chrysostom , with which he was awarded a doctorate on December 21, 1895. phil. received his doctorate .

After the teaching examination in the summer of 1896, he completed his military service as a one-year volunteer in Hamburg and the preparatory service for a higher teaching position: the seminar year in Düsseldorf (1897/98) and the probationary year at the Johanneum in Hamburg (1899/99). He got his first permanent job on October 1, 1899 at the state school in Cuxhaven . In addition to teaching, he cataloged the school library and took part in the conversion of the school from a secondary school to a grammar school. In the autumn of 1910 he accepted a position at the Johanneum in Hamburg. When the First World War broke out , he volunteered and was deployed as an officer on the Eastern Front. From October 1914 he took part in the fighting in the border area around Soldau; on November 16 he was killed in a Russian attack.

Wegehaupt's research focus was textual criticism and the history of transmission of the writings of the Greek author Plutarch . He took part in the company to publish its writings in a new critical edition (together with William Roger Paton , Max Pohlenz and Wilhelm Nachstädt ). For this project Wegehaupt undertook several research trips to Italy (1904/05, 1908, 1911), during which he saw the Plutarch manuscripts in Milan, Rome and Florence and also toured Greece. Among other things, he provided a complete collation and description of the Florentine Plutarch palimpsest , for the deciphering of which he also used the latest developments in photographic technology.

Fonts (selection)

• De Dione Chrysostomo Xenophontis sectatore . Gotha 1896 (dissertation)
• Plutarch studies in Italian libraries . Cuxhaven 1906 (school program)
• The Florentine Plutarch Palimpsest . Berlin 1914 ( Treatises of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class . Born 1914, No. 2)
• Plutarchus: Moralia. Vol. 1. Recensuerunt et emendaverunt WR Paton; J. Wegehaupt . Leipzig 1925

literature

• Erich Ziebarth : Hans Wegehaupt † . In: The humanistic high school . 26th year (1915), pp. 152–156

Web links

Wikisource: Hans Wegehaupt  - Sources and full texts