Harald Fuchs (classical philologist)
Harald Fuchs (born September 10, 1900 in Hong Kong , † October 28, 1985 in Basel ) was a German classical philologist .
Life
The son of a merchant working in Hong Kong was born there, but attended school in Hamburg. After graduating from Wilhelm-Gymnasium in 1918, he began studying classical philology in Hamburg , then in Kiel and finally in Berlin . He was particularly influenced by Werner Jaeger , whom he followed to various universities. In Berlin he was in 1925 with the dissertation Augustine and the ancient idea of peace doctorate . He then received an assistant position at the Archaeological Institute and prepared for his habilitation with a preliminary thesis on the edition of Augustin's early work De ordine , which took place in 1928. In 1929 he was appointed to succeed Wolfgang Schadewaldt in Königsberg . In the winter semester of 1932, Fuchs was offered the chair of Latin Philology in Basel , which Kurt Latte had previously held.
In the following years he received several appointments from German universities: 1934 to Königsberg (as successor to Paul Maas ), 1935 to Kiel (as successor to Felix Jacoby ), 1938 to Göttingen (as successor to Kurt Latte). He declined all calls because he was appalled by the course of events in Germany. He also distanced himself from his mentor Werner Jaeger and his third humanism . Even after the end of National Socialist rule, he was not ready to leave Basel when he was offered a chair in Cologne in 1952 . He also rejected the Sather Professorship (1954).
In a reading group he kept in contact with the Basel students until after his retirement in 1970. In 1968 he received the title of honorary doctor from the theological institute of the University of Bonn .
Harald Fuchs already presented a fundamental, much-cited work in his broad-based dissertation Augustin and the ancient peace thought (1926). Other key writings were his inaugural Basel lecture The Spiritual Resistance Against Rome in the Ancient World (1938) and his commented school editions of Caesar's Commentarii de bello Gallico (1944) and the Annales des Tacitus (1946–1949). However, Fuchs considered the dissertations of his students supervised by his students to be more important (according to his student and later successor in Basel Josef Delz in an obituary).
Fonts (selection)
- Augustine and the ancient idea of peace. Weidmann, Berlin 1926. ( New Philological Studies . Book 3). 2nd unaltered edition 1965. Reprint: Garland, New York 1973, ISBN 0-8240-0337-3 (with an introduction by Walter F. Bense).
- Spiritual Resistance to Rome in the Ancient World. De Gruyter, Berlin 1938. 2nd edition 1964.
- Cicero's devotion to philosophy. In: Museum Helveticum . Volume 16, 1959, pp. 1-28, doi : 10.5169 / seals-16038 . Separately: B. Schwabe, Basel and Stuttgart 1959.
editor
- P. Cornelius Tacitus: Annalium from excessu divi Augusti quae supersunt. 2 volumes. Huber, Frauenfeld 1946–1949. 2nd edition 1960–1963.
- C. Julius Caesar: Commentarii belli Gallici. Huber, Frauenfeld 1944 (and reprints).
literature
- Josef Delz: Harald Fuchs †. In: Gnomon. Critical journal for all of classical antiquity . Volume 60, 1988, No. 1, pp. 80-82.
Web links
- Literature by and about Harald Fuchs in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ueli Dill : Harald Fuchs. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Ueli Dill, Martin Müller: History of the seminar for classical philology in Basel . Basel 1987
Individual evidence
- ↑ Delz (1988) 81.
First chair: Samuel Gottlieb Wald (1786–1806) | Carl Erfurdt (1810–1813) | Christian August Lobeck (1814–1857) | Ludwig Friedländer (1858–1892) | Ludwig Jeep (1893-1910)
Second chair: Karl Lehrs (1845–1878) | Arthur Ludwich (1878-1912) | Ludwig Deubner (1912–1917) | Ludolf Malten (1919 / 1920–1922) | Johannes Mewaldt (1923–1927) | Richard Harder (1927–1930) | Paul Maas (1930–1934) | Walter F. Otto (1934–1945)
Third chair: Henri Jordan (1867–1886) | Alfred Schöne (1887–1892) | Johannes Schmidt (1892-1894) | August Brinkmann (1896 / 1900–1902) | Richard Heinze (1903-1906) | Richard Wünsch (1907–1913) | Otto Immisch (1913–1914) | Karl Meister (1916–1921) | Ernst Bickel (1921–1928) | Wolfgang Schadewaldt (1928–1929) | Harald Fuchs (1929–1932) | Willy Theiler (1932–1944) | Werner Hartke (1944–1945)
Extraordinariat: Ludwig Jeep (1886–1893) | August Brinkmann (1896–1900) | Hermann Schöne (1903–1906) | Ludwig Deubner (1906–1912) | Christian Jensen (1912–1913) | Hermann Mutschmann (1913–1918) | Ludolf Malten (1919–1920)
First chair: Emanuel Linder (1819–1843) | Wilhelm Vischer-Bilfinger (1832–1861) | Otto Ribbeck (1861–1862) | Adolph Kießling (1862–1869) | Friedrich Nietzsche (1869–1879) | Jacob Wackernagel (1879–1902) | Ferdinand Sommer (1902–1909) | Rudolf Herzog (1909–1914) | Werner Jaeger (1914–1915) | Peter von der Mühll (1917–1952) | Bernhard Wyss (1952–1976) | Joachim Latacz (1981-2002) | Anton Bierl (since 2002).
Second chair: Franz Dorotheus Gerlach (1819–1875) | Jacob Achilles Mähly (1875–1890) | Georg Ferdinand Dümmler (1890–1896) | Erich Bethe (1897–1903) | Alfred Körte (1903–1906) | Hermann Schöne (1906–1909) | Friedrich Münzer (1909–1912) | Ernst Lommatzsch (1912–1913) | Walter F. Otto (1913–1914) | Johannes Stroux (1914–1922) | Günther Jachmann (1922–1925) | Kurt Latte (1925–1931) | Harald Fuchs (1932–1970) | Josef Delz (1970–1987) | Fritz Graf (1987–1999) | Jerzy Styka (2000-2001) | Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer (since 2002).
Third chair: Franz Misteli (1879–1898) | Max Niedermann (1911–1925) | Jacob Wackernagel (1915–1936) | Albert Debrunner (1940–1949) | Karl Meuli (1942–1961) | Felix Heinimann (1966–1980).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fuchs, Harald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hong Kong |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1985 |
| Place of death | Basel |